Servings
lots of ServingsPrep time
5-10 MinutesCooking Time
60 MinutesCalories
--- KcalRecipe from Grandma Laura Lou
Ingredients
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 ½ cups light corn syrup
- 1 ⅓ cups water
- ½ tsp salt
- 8oz spanish peanuts 1
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp baking soda
Directions
- Grease two sheet pans, or line with silpat mats
- Combine sugar, syrup and water in large saucepan
- Bring to a boil for about a half hour, stirring constantly, until your candy thermometer hits 235℉"
- Add salt and peanuts all at once
- Continue to cook and still until mixture reaches hard crack stage (310 degrees)
- Remove from heat
- Stir in butter, then baking soda
- Make sure your pan is large enough as the mixture will fluff up quite a bit
- Stir rapidly until mixture turn a light brown color and begins to thicken
- Pour onto buttered pans and spread thin, working very fast as it tends set very quickly
- Let set for a few hours
- Break into pieces when cool
Notes
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If you use a different nut other than raw spanish peanuts, don’t add them to the candy until around 275-280 degrees, otherwise they will most likely burn. No need to grease pans, use a flat pan with a silpat in it if you have it, you get less oily candy afterward. This does require two pans, otherwise it will be way too thick. If you only have one sheet pan, cut the recipe in half. ↩︎