Macadamia Nut Brittle

Recipe courtesy Gale Gand

Show: Sweet DreamsEpisode: Simply Sugar

Rated: 3 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (3)

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COMMENTS & REVIEWS(3)

Cook Time:
45 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
Yield: approximately 1 1/4 pou

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Times:

Prep: 10 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 45 min
Total:: 55 min

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Ingredients

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water, to dissolve
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup macadamia nuts, toasted and cooled

Directions

In a saucepan boil the sugar and water together to make a caramel. Test the color of the caramel on a white plate. It should be amber-brown. Stir in the butter with a wooden spoon then stir in the nuts. Pour onto a silpat and let cool. Break up into chunks (for brittle, just chop or crush with the bottom of a bottle). Store in an airtight container.

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recipe Macadamia Nut Brittle
M Simi Valley, CA 08-10-2009
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Well...
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

I am rating this on the taste, not the apprearance of the "substance" I created. I am thinking that perhaps I didn't cook the... sugar long enough before I added the butter, and then maybe I added the nuts too soon and left them COOKING on the stove for too long since there was no direcrtions to "remove from heat." I did take them the heat when the color started getting really dark. I couldnt really pour the mixture, I had to scoop it in big chunks (like crispy treats) and press onto a piece of foil, since we don't all own silpats. It looked like a giant mound of disaster that I wasted my money on. HOWEVER, it was not unedible. It was nice and nutty, chewy, sorta like a cookie (I ate it still warm) but it was pretty ok. I will have to agree with the poster before me that this recipe MAY be missing some corn syrup. If it's not, then I suggest a revision of the recipe.Read more
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erika fallbrook, CA 05-26-2008
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housewife
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

I tried the recipe with the ingredients outlined on the article. All that happened was that I now have a buttered lump of... hard sugar. Something seems to be missing from the recipe. What element of the ingredients is missing. Most of the brittle ingedients include corn syrup, this one doesn't Is that the mising ingredient? Let me know and I will try it again.Read more
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Anonymous 08-08-2007
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nice snack
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

simple and good :)