Peanut Brittle Deluxe

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup dark corn syrup
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 1/2 cups salted peanuts
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 teaspoons baking soda

Recipe

• 1 oil a large rimmed cookie sheet or jelly roll pan. set aside.
• 2 in a 3-quart saucepan combine sugar, corn syrup and water; mix well.
• 3 cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves.
• 4 cook until temperature reaches 285°f on a candy thermometer, stirring frequently to prevent burning.
• 5 add peanuts and butter; stir constantly and cook to 295°f.
• 6 remove from heat.
• 7 add vanilla and soda and stir well.
• 8 pour onto cookie sheet and spread as thinly as possible.
• 9 when set, loosen from pan and flip over.
• 10 stretch and pullout the brittle until rather thin.
• 11 when cold, break into pieces.