What are butterscotch chips?
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Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter, although other ingredients such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt are part of some recipes.
The ingredients for butterscotch are similar to toffee, but for butterscotch the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, and not hard crack as with toffee. Butterscotch sauce is often made into a syrup, which is used as a topping for ice cream (particularly sundaes).
The term butterscotch is also often used for the flavour of brown sugar and butter together even where actual confection butterscotch is not involved, e.g. butterscotch pudding.
It is often used as a flavour for items such as dessert sauce, pudding, and biscuits (cookies). To that end, it can be bought in "butterscotch chips", made with hydrogenated (solid) fats so as to be similar for baking use to chocolate chips.
There are also individually wrapped, translucent sometimes yellow colored hard candies with an artificial butterscotch flavour, which is dissimilar to actual butterscotch.
Butterscotch chips are usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Butterscotch chips are a member of the Sweets US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.
Measure | Grams |
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1 oz | 28 |
3 pieces | 16 |
In Chinese: | 奶油芯片 | |
British (UK) term: | Butterscotch chips | |
en français: | pépites de caramel | |
en español: | chips de mantequilla |
There are 87 recipes that contain this ingredient.