Buttery Peanut Brittle Recipes

PEANUT BUTTER PEANUT BRITTLE

Steps:

• Mix sugar, water and syrup in a heavy pot.
• Bring to a boil and heat to 240°F on a candy thermometer.
• Add peanuts.
• Heat to 300°F.
• Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter and vanilla.
• Stir in baking soda.
• Spread quickly onto a lightly buttered pan.
• Cool and break into pieces.

PEANUT BUTTER PEANUT BRITTLE

Steps:

• Preparations: Butter a cookie sheet;place in warm oven to keep warm-to hot. Combine the baking soda and vanilla in a small cup and set aside.(this keeps the soda from brown flaking in your syrup).
• Combine sugar,water and corn syrup in heavy saucepan.
• Bring mixture to full boil over high heat, stirring until mixture appears clear.
• Cook to hard crack stage- 290 degrees.(No thermometer? Fill a cup with cold water and drip a drop of the syrup into water. Feel the drop at the bottom of the cup -- if it's hard and brittle, it's ready!
• Meanwhile, put the measured peanut butter and peanuts in a medium size bowl and microwave on defrost or half power to warm .
• When the syrup hits 290 remove from heat and add vanilla,soda and the warmed peanut butter mixture. Combine and stir quickly.
• Working quickly, pour onto a very warm - hot buttered cookie sheet; spread with large spoons or forks.
• Cool; break into pieces.

MOM'S BEST PEANUT BRITTLE

Steps:

• Grease a large cookie sheet. 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. 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.
• 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.

BUTTERY PEANUT BRITTLE

Steps:

• Heat and stur sugar, syrup and water until sugar dissolves.
• When syrup boils, add butter.
• Stir ogten after 230 degrees.
• Add nuts at 280 degrees.
• Stir until hard crack at 305 degrees, then remove from heat and quickly stir in soda.
• Pour onto two buttered cookie sheets.
• cool then break up into pieces.

PEANUT BRITTLE

Steps:

• Butter a rimmed baking sheet; set aside. Stir together sugar, 1/2 cup water, and the salt in a medium saucepan. Cook over high heat, without stirring, until sugar begins to melt and turn golden, about 3 minutes. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until sugar has melted and mixture turns golden amber, about 10 minutes.
• Remove pan from heat. Stir in peanuts. Immediately pour peanut mixture onto buttered baking sheet. Quickly spread mixture to 1/2 inch thick using an oiled metal spatula. Let cool completely, about 15 minutes. Break brittle into pieces. Brittle can be stored in an airtight container, up to 2 weeks.

QUICK AND EASY PEANUT BRITTLE

Steps:

• Line a jelly roll pan with parchment paper.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir sugar and salt with melted butter to dissolve completely. Remove saucepan from heat, add peanuts, and stir to coat completely; immediately pour onto prepared pan and spread into an even layer.
• Refrigerate until brittle, at least 30 minutes. Separate from parchment and break into pieces.

PEANUT BUTTER PEANUT BRITTLE

Steps:

• In top of double boiler, warm peanut butter over low heat.
• Butter 2 large baking sheets.
• Butter sides of a heavy 3 quart pan, combine sugar, corn syrup, and water .
• Cook and stir over medium high heat till it comes to a boil --
• Clip candy thermometer to side of pan and cook till mixture reaches 275* (about 15 minutes).
• Reduce heat to medium and add 2 tbls butter stirring just until melted.
• Add peanuts and cook and stir for 5 more minutes until candy starts to turn brown and thermometer reads 295*.
• Remove from heat and remove thermometer
• Quickly sprinkle baking soda over mixture stirring constantly.
• Stir in vanilla.gentlly stir in warmed peanut butter.till it is well combined.
• Immediately pour candy onto prepared sheets.working quickly spread as thin as possible.
• When cool, break into pieces.

BUTTERY PEANUT BRITTLE

Steps:

• Combine sugar, syrup and water in 3 quart pan.
• Cook and stir until sugar dissolves.
• When syrup boils, blend in butter.
• Stir frequently after mixture reaches syrup stage (230°).
• Add nuts when temperature reaches soft crack (280°) and stir constantly until hard crack (305°).
• Remove from heat.
• Quickly stir in baking soda, mixing thoroughly.
• Pour onto 2 large, well butter cookie sheets.
• As candy cools, stretch out thin by lifting and pulling from edges, using 2 forks.
• Loose from pans as soon as possible and turn candy over.
• Break in pieces.
• I use table knife handle.