hat is toffee? Is it a buttercrunch, or butterscotch? Is the butterscotch the same thing as the buttercrunch? Is there a difference? If those questions sound familiar to you, don’t worry, because many, many people - my students included - ask the same! Have no fear because the time has come to resolve this dilemma once and for all!

s we’ve already learned in the post about toffee, buttercrunch is a candy very similar to toffee. Similar I say, not the same! However, lots of people, while talking about a hard, crunchy candy made of sugar and butter use both of those terms interchangeably.

utterscotch is a hard candy similar to toffee and buttercrunch, except that, instead of regular white sugar, it is always made of brown sugar and butter, with the addition of glucose syrup, vanilla and other flavorings.

s it is often the case in the history of sweetness, the origin and/or the inventor of some delicacy that is widely popular today is - unknown. Same goes for caramel.