Mom's Best Peanut Brittle recipe

All Recipes Dessert Recipes Nut Dessert Recipes Peanut Dessert Recipes

Ingredients

1 cup white sugar
½ cup light corn syrup
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ cup water
1 cup peanuts
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon baking soda

Nutrition Info

143.5 calories
carbohydrate: 22.3 g
cholesterol: 3.8 mg
fat: 6 g
fiber: 0.7 g
protein: 2.2 g
saturatedFat: 1.5 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 132.2 mg
sugar: 15.6 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Grease a large cookie sheet. Set aside.

  2. In a heavy 2 quart saucepan, over medium heat, bring to a boil sugar, corn syrup, salt, and water. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in peanuts. Set candy thermometer in place, and continue cooking. Stir frequently until temperature reaches 300 degrees F (150 degrees C), or until a small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard and brittle threads.

  3. Remove from heat, immediately stir in butter and baking soda, pour at once onto cookie sheet. With 2 forks, lift and pull peanut mixture into rectangle about 14x12 inches, cool. Snap candy into pieces.

Recipe Yield

1 pound

Recipe Note

This is a wonderful peanut brittle that is easy to make and wows everyone! Have all the ingredients for this recipe measured out and ready. This recipe requires that you react quickly. You do not have time to measure ingredients in between steps.

Do you like the recipe? Share this tasty recipe!

Alternatives to this recipe

See more alternatives
All Recipes - More

All Recipes - Recipe Tags: Mom's Best Peanut Brittle Recipe, simple recipe Mom's Best Peanut Brittle, recipe Mom's Best Peanut Brittle, recipe Mom's Best Peanut Brittle, Mom's Best Peanut Brittle recipe, recipes , recipes online , online recipes , recipe , cooking , cookbook , new recipes , best recipes , dessert recipes top recipes , cooking recipes , best lunch recipes , recipe book , meat recipes , healthy recipes , cooking , toprecipes , best recipe mom's, , prima recipes , baking , tasty recipe best recipes