How to Make the Best Butterscotch Chips

Butterscotch chips are an excellent alternative to chocolate chips in many recipes. These tasty morsels may not be as accessible as chocolate chips so here is a way to get the sweet taste of butterscotch in your cookies, cakes, etc. without having to search every store for the butterscotch chips.Making your own butterscotch chips is easy and economical.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Sauce pan
• Wooden spoon
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 cup of tightly packed dark brown sugar
• 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 8 oz tempered unsweetened white chocolate
• Wax paper

1. Prepare all of the ingredients and let sit to room temperature.

2. Melt the unsalted butter over low heat in a sauce pan and then stir in the dark brown sugar .

3. Stir until the mixture is creamy then add vanilla extract and kosher salt.

4. Slowly add heavy whipping cream while continuing to mix the other ingredients.

5. Pour butterscotch sauce over tempered unsweetened white chocolate and heat until they are blended and melted completely.

6. Drop the warm butterscotch/white chocolate mixture onto wax paper is small droplets to make the chips.

7. Chill the butterscotch chips and store them in an air tight container.

8. Add the homemade butterscotch chips to cookies, drop them into cake batter or use them as a topping on an icecream sundae.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure the unsweetened chocolate is completely blended with the butterscotch sauce so that the butterscotch flavor comes through.

• Use unsweetened white chocolate only or you might alter the butterscotch flavor and the chips will not have the authentic butterscotch taste.

• Do not over cook sauce or burn the bottom of the pan.

References

• Simple Recipes
• Cooks.com