Best Almond Roca Recipes

ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
• Sprinkle 1/2 the chocolate and 1/2 the almonds onto the prepared baking sheet.
• Melt sugar and butter together in a stainless steel pan over low heat; increase heat to medium, stirring constantly, until boiling. Heat mixture to 310 degrees F (155 degrees C) or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads, 30 minutes to 1 hour.
• Pour butter-sugar mixture over chocolate and almonds on baking sheet. Sprinkle remaining chocolate and almonds over butter-sugar mixture. Cool to room temperature and refrigerate until set, about 1 hour. Break into pieces.

EASY HOMEMADE ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• Over Medium heat, melt butter in a large pot.
• Add corn syrup, water and sugar to pot and cook until temp reaches 290 degrees OR until the mixture becomes the color of a brown paper bag (about 15-20 minutes) stirring constantly with a wooden spoon (mixture will rise and bubble quite a bit).
• Remove from heat and Stir in 1/2 of the Almonds.
• Turn mixture onto a greased cookie sheet WITH EDGES!
• While the mixture is cooling, melt the chocolate over low flame until all the chips are gone, and chocolate is smooth.
• Score the Almond butter mixture into the shape you desire (I just scored into rectangle shapes).
• Pour the hot chocolate over the almond mixture and spread evenly.
• Sprinkle with remaining almonds and allow candy to cool completely and chocolate to harden before breaking apart and serving.
• Note: I let mine refrigerate over night after breaking the into squares, and they had a better texture this way, we thought.

ALMOND ROCA (ENGLISH TOFFEE)

Steps:

• Spread almonds evenly on a buttered 12 x 17-inch jelly roll pan. (I used a Silpat sheet and only buttered sides and that worked great).
• Mix sugar, butter and water in a large saucepan. Cook over high heat until tan (295°F at sea level). It needs to be past the point where the mixture begins to turn tan. It will be a foamy, thick, medium tan. Be sure to stir constantly with a wooden spoon.
• Pour over sliced almonds and spread as much as possible.
• Sprinkle chocolate pieces over immediately. Let melt a minute or two and then spread evenly with knife.
• When completely cool and chocolate is solid, break into pieces.

MARBLED ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• Sprinkle almonds on a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 300° for 15 minutes or until toasted and golden brown; remove from the oven and set aside. , In a large saucepan over low heat, cook butter and sugar for 5 minutes. Add water and corn syrup. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook, stirring occasionally, until a candy thermometer reads 300° (hard-crack stage). Quickly pour over almonds. Sprinkle chips on top; let stand for 1-2 minutes or until melted. Spread and swirl chocolate over candy. Cool completely; break into pieces.

BLUE RIBBON ALMOND ROCA COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, blend sugars together on medium speed. Add butter and mix to form a grainy paste. Add eggs and vanilla and mix at medium speed until light and fluffy. At low speed, slowly add the flour mixture and then the toffee bits. Mix until just blended; do not over-mix.
• Place ground nuts in a small bowl. Using hands, roll balls of dough into 1 to 1 1/2-inch balls, then roll in the ground nuts. Place on cookie sheets several inches apart. Bake approximately 22 minutes and then transfer cookies to a cooling rack.
• Melt the chocolate with the vegetable oil in a double boiler or in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Drizzle melted chocolate over cooled cookies. Place cookies on a cookie sheet and place in freezer or refrigerator until chocolate is firmly set.

EASY ALMOND ROCA TOFFEE

Steps:

• Line a cookie sheet with foil and spray it with non-stick cooking spray.
• Place almonds in a single layer on cookie sheet.
• Cook butter, sugar, water, vanilla and salt in a heavy saucepan over high heat, stirring mixture constantly, 15-18 minutes or until a candy thermometer registers 310°F.
• Remove from heat and immediately pour over almonds (do not scrape the pan).
• Sprinkle immediately with chocolate morsels and spread evenly to 1/2 inch from sides.
• Sprinkle with ground walnuts.
• Let stand until firm.
• Break into small pieces and store in an airtight container.
• (The toffee mixture will not coat the entire baking sheet).

ALMOND ROCA BARS

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugars; add egg.
• Beat well.
• Stir in vanilla and flour.
• Press mixture on bottom of ungreased 11x15" jelly roll pan.
• Bake at 350° for 20 minutes.
• While hot, sprinkle with chocolate chips.
• Spread melted chips over cookie base.
• Sprinkle with almonds, pressing lightly.

CHOCOLATE ALMOND ROCA BAR

Steps:

• Layer an 11x17-inch cookie sheet with sides with the graham wafers, cut to fit snuggly.
• Sprinkle with the almonds and set aside.
• Put the butter and brown sugar in a saucepan and bring to boil, stirring to incorporate the butter.
• Pour in a thin stream over the almond/wafer base.
• Place in 350 Oven for 8 minutes until bubbly all over.
• Remove from the oven and sprinkle with Chocolate chips.
• Run the tines of a fork through the chips to spread.
• Set on counter to cool and cut into squares.

EASY ENGLISH TOFFEE LOOKS LIKE ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• 1. To get started grease or spray a pan. Using parchment paper you spray or butter it.
• 2. Pour butter into a heavy saucepan and add sugar.
• 3. When butter is melted the sugar starts to turn colors. From light tan to brown. When the toffee is brown your candy thermometer should read 290 degrees. Take off heat. The recipe says 300 degrees, but I have found that 300 degrees is to hot. It turns the toffee burnt and bitter.
• 4. Pour the toffee into the pan. It's very hot, so be very careful. Let cool.
• 5. When the chocolate is cooled add your dark or milk chocolate chips it melts faster. Your candy thermometer should read 88 degrees. Spread on top of toffee with a cake spatula. When the chocolate is still hot add your chopped pecans or walnuts.
• 6. This is a picture of the toffee when you are finished. If you want both sides with chocolate and nuts these are the steps. This is what they do with Almond Roco. Cut the toffee into squares when cooled. Dip both sides into melted chocolate and the nuts.
• 7. If you want it just like the photo double the toffee recipe. That pic has thick toffee in the center.

ALMOND ROCA BAR COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray a 11x15-inch baking sheet (or jelly roll pan) with nonstick spray.
• 2. Blend brown sugar, white sugar, butter and egg yolk until well combined. Add flour, salt and almond extract, and mix well.
• 3. Add dough to baking sheet, and spread into even layer. Bake in oven for 25 minutes.
• 4. Immediately after removing baking sheet from oven, spread chips over the hot cookie base. As the chips melt, use a spatula to spread the melted chocolate evenly over the cookies base. Sprinkle the almonds on top while chocolate is still warm and melted. Let it cool completely (so chocolate is solid) before cutting into 24 bar cookies. NOTE: If I use the entire 12oz bag of chips, sometimes I'll place the baking sheet back in the warm oven for about 1 to 2 minutes to help the chips melt faster. If you do this though, you'll want to watch closely because you don't want it to scorch.

SARAH'S EASY HOMEMADE ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• 1. Over med heat, melt butter in large sauce pot
• 2. Add corn syrup, water, & sugar to pot and cook until the temp reaches 290 degrees on candy thermometer or until the mixture becomes the color of a brown paper bag (15-20 mins.), stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. (The mixture will rise and bubble quite a bit.)
• 3. Remove pan from the heat and stir in 1/2 of the almonds.
• 4. Turn the mixture onto a greased cookie sheet with edges.
• 5. While the mixture is cooling melt the chocolate chips over low flame until all the chips are gone and the chocolate is smooth.
• 6. Score the almond butter mixture while still warm into squares or rectangles.
• 7. Pour melted chocolate mixture over almond mixture and spread evenly.
• 8. Sprinkle with remaining almonds and allow candy to cool completely and and chocolate to harden before breaking apart and serving.
• 9. Note: Refrigerate overnight after breaking apart. Store in a tightly sealed container.

MOCK ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• Place crackers on a cookie sheet.
• boil butter & sugar for 3 minutes.
• Pour over crackers & bake 4 mins @ 325 degrees.
• Pour chocolate chips on top and spread as it melts.
• Sprinkle with chopped nuts.
• let cool.

HOLIDAY ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• Line a large cookie sheet (or two smaller) with aluminum foil, or lay aluminum foil over a large area on the counter or table.
• Cook butter, sugar and vanilla in a saucepan to hard crack stage (285-290F), while stirring constantly.
• Once heated, pour onto the aluminum foil lined surface.
• Spread out to about 1/4-inch thickness.
• Sprinkle with chocolate chips, let sit until beginning to melt, then spread chocolate out.
• Sprinkle the top with almonds.
• Let cool for 2 hours, then break into pieces.

HOMEMADE "ALMOND ROCA"

Steps:

• DIRECTIONS.
• Place whole almonds in a freezer bag. Put this freezer bag in the second bag. Using the flat side of a meat tenderizer, hammer the almonds to crush them. You want some almond pieces to be large, some to be small.
• Measure 1.5 cups of crushed almonds and set aside.
• Measure 1 cup of crushed almonds into another container. Set aside.
• Set a cooling rack on the counter, with the sheet pan on top. Leave on the counter till ready to pour the toffee.
• Place the butter, then sugar, then water in the non-stick pot. Set the heat to half way between medium and medium-high (about the position of the 22nd minute on the clock).
• Allow ingredients to come to a boil WITHOUT STIRRING. DO NOT stir.
• Mixture will continue to a bubbly, rolling boil.
• Once the center of the mixture starts to turn form an opaque color to a very light caramel, add 1.5 cups of crushed almonds. The temperature will be about 245 to 250 degrees.
• Begin stirring the mixture once you add the almonds.
• Continue to stir until the mixture turns to a slightly darker color.
• As you stir and the mixture darkens, you will notice the mixture at the edge of the pot start to darken more than the mixture in the center. The sugar will be about 285 to 290 degrees. It's ready to pour.
• Pour the mix along the center part of the pan, lengthwise. Set the pot on a trivet or an unused burner on the stove.
• Using the wooden spoon or an icing spatula, quickly spread the mixture toward all the edges of the pan. Don't cover the entire half-sheet pan otherwise the toffee will be too thin.
• The toffee will set / harden some while spreading. You will be able to coax it a little to cover any holes created while spreading the mixture.
• Take the Hershey chocolate pieces and arrange over the toffee, working from the edges inward, in a circular pattern.
• After a minute, spread the melted chocolate to cover the toffee.
• Sprinkle the remaining 1 cup of crushed almonds over the chocolate.
• Wait 5 minutes.
• Lay 1-2 sheets of wax paper over the pan.
• Use a clean spatula or your hands (CAREFUL -- the pan is hot) to gently press the nuts into the chocolate.
• Leave in a cool room for about 30 minutes.
• Set in the fridge or in a VERY COLD room for several hours to allow the chocolate to set.
• If placing candy in the fridge (overnight is fine), bring "almond roca" to room temperature before serving.
• Note: When refrigerated, the toffee will lighten in color. This is fine. The candy will have to come to room temperature to regain its darker color.

ALMOND ROCA COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Mix all the ingredients together. Spread thinly on a cookie sheet with sides. Bake at 350 deg for 15 min.
• 2. Melt 12 - 14 ounces of chocolate bars, spread onto the warm cookie crust.
• 3. Optional, sprinkle with sliced almonds.
• 4. Cut into diamond shaped bars while still warm.

ALMOND ROCA GOURMET POPCORN

Steps:

• Place popped popcorn in a large roasting pan that has been sprayed with a non-stick spray and set aside.
• In saucepan on low heat mix sugars, butter, salt, and corn syrup. Let mixture come to a soft boil and place lid on pan for 30 seconds. Remove lid and stir with clean spoon. This is done so all sugar and salt crystals are dissolved and none get back in the mixture. Turn heat down and let boil gently with out a lid for 5 minutes stirring constantly.
• When 5 minutes are up remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Syrup will foam but this is normal. Stir until baking soda is completely dissolved. Add butter flavoring and stir. Pour over popcorn slowly stirring popcorn constantly, coating all the popcorn gently. When popcorn is coated, pour almonds in and stir well. Place in a preheated oven at 225 degrees for 1 hour. Popcorn needs to be stirred and mixed through every 15 minutes. When popcorn is finished baking pour onto a non-stick service and let cool.

MOCK ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• 1. Spray 9x13 pan with non-stick cooking spray and line with Saltine Crackers, salt side up.
• 2. Cook butter and brown sugar to boiling in a saucepan to a full boil, then boil for an additional 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Immediately pour over crackers.
• 3. Place pan in oven at 400 degrees. Bake for about 8 minutes or until bubbly all over. Remove from oven and immediately pour chocolate chips on top. Wait one minute and spread slightly.
• 4. Sprinkle with nuts (pre-toasted in 350 degree oven for 8 minutes or until golden brown) and refrigerate until chilled.
• 5. Remove from refrigerator and break or cut into pieces.

BLUE RIBBON ALMOND ROCA COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat over to 300 degrees
• 2. IN a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. IN the bowl of an electgric mixer blend sugars together on medium speed. Add butter and mix to form a grainy paste. Add eggs and vanilla and mix at medium speed until light and fluffy. At low speed slowly add the flour mixture and then the toffee bits. Mix until just blended, don't overmix.
• 3. Place ground almonds in a small bow. Using hands roll balls of dough into l" to 1-1/2" balls (I use a one ounce scoop, then roll in the ground nuts. Place on cookie sheets several inches apart. BAke App. 22 minutes. Take out of oven and let cool a couple of minutes and place on cooling rack (I just put them on top of wax paper on my granite island and works perfect).
• 4. Melt the chocolate and veg oil in a double boiler. Drizzle melted chocolate over cooled cookies. Place cookies on a cookie sheet and place in the freezer or refrigerator until chocolate is firmly set. If you don't set the chocolate you gotta some messy cookies!

ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• 1. Melt butter in a dutch oven; add sugar and cook over medium high heat until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and boil mixture 5 minutes, stirring frequently until mixture reaches crack stage. (300 degrees)
• 2. Line 2 (15x10-inch) pans with wax paper, spray with butter flavored nonstick cooking spray and sprinkle each with 1/2 cup crushed almonds.
• 3. Remove from heat and immediately pour onto two buttered aluminum foil covered cookie sheets, spreading to about 1/4 inch thickness. let cool until candy is hard.
• 4. Melt chocolate in a top of a double boiler over hot water. Working quickly, spread half of chocolate over cooled candly. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup almonds evenly over top. Lightly press almonds into chocolate. Let stand or refrigerate until chocolate is firm.
• 5. When chocolate is firm, break candy into pieces. If stored in refrigerator, allow candy to stand at room temperature 5 minutes before serving. Yield: about 3 1/2 lbs.

BROWN & HALEY'S ALMOND ROCA

Steps:

• 1. Melt butter in a saucepan. Add sugar, water, and corn syrup. Cook the mixture over medium heat, stirring.
• 2. When the sugar dissolves and the mixture begins to boil, raise the heat and bring the mixture to 290 degrees Fahrenheit on a cooking thermometer. (This is called the soft crack stage). It will be light brown in color, and syrup will separate into threads that are not brittle when dribbled into cold water.
• 3. Quickly stir in 1/2 cup chopped almonds. Immediately pour the mixture onto an ungreased baking sheet. Wait 2 or 3 minutes for the candy surface to firm, then sprinkle on the chocolate chips. In a few minutes, when the chips have softened, spread the chocolate evenly over the surface. Sprinkle the remaining almonds over the melted chocolate. When the chocolate hardens, crack the candy into pieces. Store covered.