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Dessert enthusiasts often find that caramel and butterscotch syrups appear and taste remarkably alike when choosing a topping for their ice cream.
Both of these sugary confections are crafted by melting sugar, but they differ in their ingredients. Caramel is made by combining white granulated sugar, heavy whipping cream, butter, and a hint of vanilla. Butterscotch, however, is created using brown sugar instead.
Butterscotch was originally just a hard candy. The term 'scotch' has nothing to do with alcohol; it refers to the technique of scoring or 'scotching' the candy to make it easier to break into pieces.
Toffee shares the same ingredients as butterscotch, but it is cooked for a longer period of time. It reaches the hard-crack stage, where the sugar concentration is 99 percent.
