Peanut Butter Peanut Brittle Recipe

  American Confections

Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup water
1-1/2 cups light corn syrup
2 cups salted peanuts
2 to 2 1/2 cups peanut butter
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda

Directions:
Combine sugar and water in heavy saucepan.
Bring mixture to full rolling boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Stir in corn syrup. Cook to hard crack stage, 300 degrees.
Meanwhile, mix peanuts, peanut butter and vanilla.
Remove syrup from heat; at once add peanut butter
mixture and baking soda; stir.
Working quickly, pour onto buttered cookie sheet; spread with fork. Cool; break into pieces.
Yield: About 3 pounds of creamy peanut brittle.
A softer alternative to a traditional holiday favorite.

Peanut Butter Peanut Brittle
 

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