Crackle Peanut Brittle
Crackle Peanut Brittle
(Microwave)
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- ½ cup water
- 2 tsp butter or margarine
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 2 cups salted peanuts
Instructions
- Combine in 2-Quart glass measuring pitcher.2 cups sugar, ½ cup water
- Cook uncovered in microwave 6 minutes on high, or until sugar is dissolved.
- Stir peanuts into mixture.
- Cook uncovered in microwave to hard-crack stage (8-10 minutes on high). Stirring twice.
- Add baking soda and vanilla to mixture; mix well.
- Pour onto 2 lightly buttered large baking sheets, spreading as thinly as possible.
- As soon as candy is cool enough to handle, wet hands with water and stretch as thin as desired.
- Turn candy over and cool completely.
- When firm and cool, break into medium-sized pieces.
- Store in a tightly covered container (makes about 2 pounds)
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