Almond Roca

Inspired by my Aunty Dora aka Aunty Roca who sends this every year at Christmas!

Ingredients

1 cup butter (2 sticks)
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup almonds

Directions

1. Toast almonds for about 15 minutes at 350 degrees then chop almonds roughly.
2. In a saucepan bring butter, cream, salt, and sugar to a boil at medium high heat.
3. When mixing, do not scrape the sides! This will give it a funky crystallized texture!
4. Prepare a cookie sheet by spreading half of the almonds on the bottom.
5. Let  goop bubble until it turns a caramel color or if you have a candy thermometer reaches the hard crack stage at 300 degrees (takes about 10 minutes).
6. Take off of heat, stir in vanilla, then quickly pour toffee over the nuts!
7. Let it cool for about 5 minutes then spread on chocolate chips and spread it once it melts.
8. Sprinkle the remaining almonds over the chocolate and press in,
9. Once it's cooled and hardened, lift the roca off the cookie sheet and break into pieces.