Almond Roca
Encyclopedia
Almond Roca is a brand of chocolate toffee
butter crunch candy containing a ground almond
coating and also almond chunks inside the candy itself. It is similar, if not identical, to English Toffee
. It is made by the Brown & Haley
Co. of Tacoma, Washington
.
Almond Roca was invented in 1923 by Harry Brown and J. C. Haley, founders of Brown & Haley. The candy's name is said to have been inspired by a local librarian, who chose the Spanish word "roca", meaning "rock" in English, to describe the hard, log-shaped confection. Brown & Haley first used Almond Roca's trademark tin
can containers in 1927 to extend the product's shelf life. Individual pieces of Almond Roca candy are wrapped in gold-colored aluminum foil.
cottonseed and soybean oils, cocoa powder, whey (milk), non-fat dry milk powder, soya lecithin
, chocolate, cocoa butter, and vanilla.
Toffee
Toffee is a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 300 to 310 °F...
butter crunch candy containing a ground almond
Almond
The almond , is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia. Almond is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree...
coating and also almond chunks inside the candy itself. It is similar, if not identical, to English Toffee
Toffee
Toffee is a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 300 to 310 °F...
. It is made by the Brown & Haley
Brown and Haley
Brown and Haley is a candy maker and distributor located in Tacoma, Washington. They are perhaps best known for their signature product, Almond Roca. They also make a variety of other chocolates, including three flavors of Mountain Bar. They have been in business since 1912....
Co. of Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...
.
Almond Roca was invented in 1923 by Harry Brown and J. C. Haley, founders of Brown & Haley. The candy's name is said to have been inspired by a local librarian, who chose the Spanish word "roca", meaning "rock" in English, to describe the hard, log-shaped confection. Brown & Haley first used Almond Roca's trademark tin
Tin
Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. It is a main group metal in group 14 of the periodic table. Tin shows chemical similarity to both neighboring group 14 elements, germanium and lead and has two possible oxidation states, +2 and the slightly more stable +4...
can containers in 1927 to extend the product's shelf life. Individual pieces of Almond Roca candy are wrapped in gold-colored aluminum foil.
Ingredients
Almond Roca contains sugar, almonds, butter (cream (milk) and salt), vegetable oil (coconut and/or palm oil), partially hydrogenatedHydrogenation
Hydrogenation, to treat with hydrogen, also a form of chemical reduction, is a chemical reaction between molecular hydrogen and another compound or element, usually in the presence of a catalyst. The process is commonly employed to reduce or saturate organic compounds. Hydrogenation typically...
cottonseed and soybean oils, cocoa powder, whey (milk), non-fat dry milk powder, soya lecithin
Lecithin
Lecithin is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues, and in egg yolk, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, fatty acids, glycerol, glycolipids, triglycerides, and phospholipids .The word lecithin was originally coined in 1847 by...
, chocolate, cocoa butter, and vanilla.