Brown Sugar Pecan Brittle Recipes

PECAN BRITTLE RECIPE

Steps:

• Line a large baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Set aside.
• In a heavy 2 quart saucepan, over medium heat, bring to a boil sugar, corn syrup, salt, and water. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
• Add in pecans, stirring until combined.
• Place a candy thermometer into the mixture and continue cooking. Stir frequently until temperature reaches 300°F.
• Immediately remove saucepan from heat and quickly stir in butter, vanilla, cinnamon, and baking soda.
• Immediately pour onto prepared baking sheet. Using a rubber spatula, spread the mixture into rectangle about 14x12 inches.
• Cool completely.
• Snap candy into pieces and store in an airtight container at room temperature.

PECAN BRITTLE

Steps:

• Line a rimmed baking sheet with a silicone mat. Mix together baking soda, 1 teaspoon water, and vanilla in a small bowl; set aside.
• Mix together sugar, 1 cup water, and corn syrup in a 3-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture reaches 240 degrees F (115 degrees C) on a candy thermometer, or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms a soft ball that flattens when removed from water and placed on a flat surface, about 25 minutes.
• Stir in pecans and butter. Heat to 300 degrees F (149 degrees C) or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads, about 13 minutes. Immediately remove from the heat and stir in reserved baking soda mixture, until candy is light and foamy.
• Pour mixture onto the prepared baking sheet and allow to cool until hardened, 1 to 2 hours. Break into pieces.

BROWN SUGAR PECAN BRITTLE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir brown sugar in hot butter until dissolved. Add cinnamon and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute.
• Stir vanilla into brown sugar mixture; cook and stir until vanilla stops sizzling, about 30 seconds. Add pecans; cook and stir until pecans are fragrant and lightly toasted, about 1 minute. Pour pecan mixture out in a layer on parchment paper. Let cool to room temperature before breaking into pieces, about 20 minutes.

PECAN BRITTLE

Steps:

• Cook first 3 ingredients in a medium size heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture starts to boil.
• Boil without stirring 5 minutes or until a candy thermometer reaches 310 degrees.
• Add pecans, and cook 2 - 3 more minutes or to 280°F (mixture should be golden brown).
• Remove from heat, and stir in butter and remaining ingredients.
• Pour mixture onto a metal surface or onto a shallow pan.
• Allow to stand 5 minutes or until hardened.
• Break into pieces.
• * If you'd like you can also add popcorn.
• Prepare brittle as directed.
• Stir in 1 cup popped popcorn before pouring into pan.

BROWN SUGAR PEANUT BRITTLE

Steps:

• In a heavy 3-quart saucepan combine sugars, corn syrup, water, and a dash of salt.
• Cook and stir until the sugars dissolve.
• When syrup boils, blend in butter.
• Stir frequently after mixture reaches thread stage and candy thermometer registers 230 degrees.
• Add peanuts when temperature reaches soft-crack stage, 280 degrees.
• Stir constantly until temperature reaches hard-crack stage, 300 degrees.
• Remove from heat.
• Quickly stir in soda and mix well.
• Pour onto buttered 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1" baking pans.
• As candy cools, stretch it by lifting and pulling with two forks from edges to make it thinner.
• Break into pieces and cool.