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Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- Dash of salt
- 1 to 1 1/2 cups shelled raw peanuts (Could use regular peanuts or pecans, too)
- 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Preparation
Step 1
My family loves peanut brittle and I make it often. This is the only way to go. Make it in the microwave! Turns out great every time and is so good. Makes a great Christmas gift, too. This recipe is adapted from a Sharp Carousel Microwave Cookbook that came with my very first microwave many years ago.
Spray a baking sheet generously. Combine sugar, corn syrup and salt in a 3 quart microwave bowl. Stir in peanuts and microwave on high until light brown. (About 9 to 10 minutes.) Stir twice while cooking.(This gets very hot, so be careful not to get burned and I use a glass casserole dish. Don’t use tupperware. It will melt.) Stir in remaining ingredients. Mixture should be light and foamy. Quickly spread as thin as possible on greased baking sheet. Let cool and break into pieces. Makes about 1 pound of peanut brittle. Enjoy!
My niece and I have used the recipe for years and really love it. The trick is to microwave it for 3 min. stir, 3 min. stir and 3 mins. again, then add the rest of your ingredients. Turns out perfect every time.
I have never tried doing that. I think there is a way to make your own corn syrup. Try “googling” how to make corn syrup.
I make it with pistachios, tastes just great. I am a bachelor now,72, and I haven’t let my family know that I make it. Plus a lot of other deserts that I get from this site.
You will need to just keep checking it and when it gets kind of light brown take it out. I would cut in half and check it after that to make sure it is not burning and do a couple more minutes.
Can you use Cashews or Pecans in place of raw shelled peanuts?
When it is cooler, stretch the brittle to make it thinner. Really makes a difference.
You can get a time table to cook candies in the microwave on the internet. The first I cooked it I burnt it and there is nothing that smells so bad. I make a lot of hard tack for Christmas.
when do you add the butter baking soda and vanilla.
I made this today for the first time today but I don’t care for peanuts so i used pecans chopped in halves. It turned ot great. I cooked it for nine minutes and I think next time I will try 8 because it was a little hard to spred thin. Next time I will heat the pan like Lorelei sugested.
I learned a lesson this week about peanut brittle, you cant make it if it is not cold outside!!! It was too stickey and I could not get it off my pan , had to throw the whole thing away!! my friend had a good laugh like I was suppose to know that, here in Ga, we had warm weather earlier this week.. things we learn.. will try again b/c it looks easy. thanks
My mama always told me to not make candy or fondants on a rainy or cloudy day that the moisture in the air would keep them from doing as good. Was it cloudy or rainy when you made yours. I also like to use parchment paper.
I’m in trouble now girl! I love peanut brittle but never attempted to make it with all those soft ball & hard ball stages you have to go through. Now I will throw caution to the wind! By the way, I love drooling over your pics in Facebook every day sis!
I have used this recipe numerous times as well, and has always turned out wonderfully. I also like to make a spicy peanut brittle, the recipe is the same up until the vanilla. Instead of 1tsp., you add 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 1/2tsp rum flavoring, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, and 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper. It is so good, the cayenne gives it a little kick, I have had more people want this spicy brittle than the regular.
Thanks that did the trick! I did heat in the oven on 425 for 15 minutes then soak in water. Washed right out! Won’t make that mistake again!
I have made this for years. Recipe was on the back of bag of peanuts I bought that the band was selling. I make it now with broken pieces of pecans. My family prefers this instead of peanuts.
I make lots of this each year, especially at Christmas. The neatest trick I have learned is to butter a pizza pan and put it in a 200 degree oven while the brittle cooks. When I pour the candy onto the pan, it spreads very easily with a little shaking. I also cook several batches in a row without washing my two quart Pyrex mixing bowl, which I spray before cooking.
As soon as I read this I unplugged my laptop and went to my kitchen to make it. Luckily I had everything. I did do one thing different. I had a hard time spreading it thin in the pan. I grabbed a piece of foil sprayed with cooking and used that to press it thin . It worked great for me. I did have to use a towel on top of the foil since it is really hot.. It looks really good. I am now waiting for it to cool.
This looks like what my Mom use to make but, she didn’t have a microwave.
i’ve made this many times…the baking soda is what makes it so good
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