Cashew brittle

By ChrisPergament

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 1 1/2 cups dry-roasted cashews
• 1 tsp unsalted butter
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp baking soda

Preparation

Step 1

Lightly grease a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan and set aside. Stir together the sugar and corn syrup in a 1 1/2 qt casserole. Microwave on high for 4 minutes. Stir in cashews.

Microwave on high an additional 3 to 5 minutes, until brown. Add butter and vanilla and stir.

Microwave an additional 1 to 2 minutes. Cashews will be lightly browned and syrup very hot. Remove from microwave.

Stir baking soda into cashew mixture. Stir gently until light and foamy. Pour mixture onto prepared cookie and let cool 30 to 60 minutes.

When brittle is completely cool, gently flex cookie sheet to remove brittle, then break brittle into small pieces. Keeps for several weeks in an airtight container.