Saltine Chocolate Scotcheroos

Scotcheroos are a crispy dessert treat consisting of puffed rice or corn cereal, peanut butter, and a decadent butterscotch-chocolate coating. Scotcheroos got their name after one of the key ingredients used in the preparation process – butterscotch. Although not much is known about the invention of these crunchy treats, the recipe was originally printed on…

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Peanut Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge

Other than butterscotch sundaes as a child, I have been rather unfamiliar with the butterscotch world.Well, let me take that back – I’m not a fan of hard candy, but if push comes to shove, you could definitely pay me to consume a whole lotta’ butterscotch dics – Brach’s – and even the spicy cinnamon…

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Butterscotch Candy Shortbread

Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter.  Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, not hard crack. Often credited with their invention, Parkinson’s of Doncaster made butterscotch boiled sweets and sold them in tins, which became one of the town’s best-known exports. They became famous in 1851 after Queen Victoria was presented…

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