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🥜 Peanut Brittle

Peanut Brittle

⏲ Total Time
55 minutes

⚖ Ratios

🍬 sugar 🌽 corn syrup 💧 water 🥜 peanuts 🧈 butter
4 parts 3 parts 1 part 3 parts 1/2 part
🍬 sugar 🥤 baking soda
200 g 1 tsp

🧂 Ingredients

  • 🍬 1 cup (198 g) sugar
  • 🌽 0.5 cup (156 g) corn syrup
  • 💧 0.25 cup (57 g) water
  • 🧂 0.25 tsp salt
  • 🥜 1 cup (142 g) peanuts
  • 🧈 2 Tbsp (28 g) butter
  • 🥤 1 tsp baking soda

🍳 Cookware

  • 1 heavy 2-quart saucepan
  • 1 cookie sheet
  • 1 forks
  • 1 candy thermometer

📝 Instructions

Step 1

Grease a large cookie sheet. Set aside.

Step 2

In a heavy 2-quart saucepan over medium heat, bring sugar, corn syrup, water, and salt to a boil. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in peanuts.

Step 3

Set candy thermometer in place, and continue cooking. Stir frequently until the temperature reaches 300°F (150°C), or until a small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard and brittle threads.

Step 4

Remove from heat; immediately stir in softened butter and baking soda; pour at once onto the 13" x 18" rimmed baking sheet. With two forks, lift and pull peanut mixture into a rectangle, about 14x12 inches; cool.

Step 5

Snap candy into pieces.

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