Gingerbread Toffees

Christmas is coming!

At this time of year, for the last half a dozen years or so, I've made gingerbread toffee. The year before that, the consultant company I worked for at the time sent along some to where I was assigned. I loved it so much, that when they didn't do the same next year, I looked up a recipe and made some. It's now become a sort of tradition.

This is a bit of a cheat recipe, fast and easy, made in the microwave oven. Don't let that fool you though, they are very, very delicious. It's the taste of gingerbread, but it permeates your mouth in a way that the biscuits never can.

So if you like gingerbread, I highly recommend trying these. As I said, they are incredibly quick and easy to make.

Gingerbread Toffees

Ingredients
1 dl Whipping cream 
½ dl Golden molasses
½ dl Sugar
2 ml Ground cloves
2 ml Ground ginger
2 ml Ground cinnamon

Ingredients

Warning #1: Don't try to double the recipe, it would change the cooking time completely.
Warning #2: Be careful, while you are doing ti in the microwave, you are melting sugar. It is extremely hot, and will stick to your skin if you get in on you.

Get a large glass bowl. It must be glass, plastic will melt. It also must be large, or the toffee will boil over the edge.

Get an oven tray out, and put some parchment paper on it. 

Whisk all the ingredients in the bowl until combined. Put into the microwave oven and cook on full blast for 5 minutes. Take it out, give it a stir, and cook for a further 2 minutes.

It should have bubbled up quite a bit. Stir until it's no longer bubbling, and pour out onto the oven tray. Let it cool.

Cut into pieces, either with scissors or a knife, form to your desired shape, and wrap in greaseproof paper.

All mixed up

After 5 minutes

After another 2 minutes

Cooling