| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 1 hr 20 min |
| Prep: | 15 min |
| Inactive: | 1 hr |
| Cook: | 5 min |
| Yield: | about 30 pieces |
Ingredients
- Aluminum foil
- Non-stick cooking spray
- 24 soft caramel candies, unwrapped
- 3/4 cup toffee peanuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
- Line a jelly roll pan with aluminum foil. Spray foil with cooking spray and place pan in warm oven. Spray a heavy small saucepan with cooking spray. Add caramels and stir over low heat until melted. Stir in toffee peanuts and continue stirring for a couple minutes. Spray a dull knife or metal off-set spatula with cooking spray. Remove pan from oven and then quickly spread caramel-peanut mixture over prepared pan. Cool completely; cover pan with plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Break into bite-size pieces. Store in refrigerator.
Reviews
This was terrible. I brought it to work in a ziploc bag and it turned into a pile of gummy caramel with peanuts throughout. I thought my boss’s teeth were going to rip out, from all the chewing. And the faces of my co-workers. We all shook our heads and I warned them not to make this recipe. I’ve made peanut brittle before using corn syrup and baking soda – MUCH better results. I tried this because it seemed simpler, but didn’t know that it would never set the same as traditional brittle.
I thought the recipe was great. The secret to keeping it “brittle” is to leave it in the refrigerator until you’re ready to eat it.
Mostly like melted caramel with nuts. I was not impressed because I wanted something more like brittle. Back to the drawing board.
My family loved this recipe. I put it in the freezer for 5 min. then it broke easily. We stored it in the fridge. I will make this many times. It’s so quick and easy.
Being a big brittle fan I wanted to give this a try. Other reviewers are right. It is not brittle at all, very sticky and just akin to eating caramel with nuts in it. It doesn’t deliver on its description in the slightest.
I may have enjoyed except I couldn’t get it off the tin foil although I greased it liberally. The chunks I did manage to wrestle off were rock hard to boot.
it was delish
You’ll be getting a thank you note alright, but from your dentist for getting to fix your cracked tooth!!! Very hard, would not recommend.
The soft texture was a bit of a disappointment, but not so much as the taste was. For whatever reason I expected that it would taste richer and more like toffee, but it tasted like a Kraft carmel… nothing more.
This isn’t brittle. It’s some kind of caramel. The flavor is okay, but nothing great. If you aren’t going to make real brittle (and that’s really simple to do) then buy the real stuff. It’s easier and tastier, and it won’t pull your fillings out.