No matter where you are in Brandini Toffee's Rancho Mirage location, popcorn is all the craze — cashew almond toffee popcorn, to be exact. Behind the production doors, the nutty coated sweet ...

Pour warm caramel over reserved nuts in crust, pushing carefully into an even layer with spatula as needed. Step 8 Peel and slice 4–5 large ripe but firm bananas into ½"-thick rounds.

Alpharetta-based Maybird Confections produces almost a dozen varieties of toffee as well as chocolate-covered nuts and espresso beans. Courtesy of Maybird Confections. By C.W. Cameron / For the AJC.