Making chocolate isn’t the simplest factor on the planet.This Heartbreaker Nut Brittle may be worth the struggle.
Chocolate making is hot and sticky. So, it’s a bit more harmful than your typical dessert. Chocolate also requires your complete attention as well as your most agile culinary reflexes. You’ve reached tap your keenest intuition and most importantly, you have to believe you'll persevere within the Nut Brittle.
To throw an additional spanner, I developed this Nut Brittle Recipe without corn syrup. It’s no component I continue hands and thus, this chocolate is a little more temperamental than your typical nut brittle. Watch the Heartbreaker Nut Brittle Video for additional instruction and entertainment.
Ingredients for Heartbreaker Nut Brittle:
3 cups nuts (blistered peanuts, raw almonds, macadamia, walnuts)
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons of butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate
NOTES:
Makes about 5 cups brittle. Have all the ingredients and equipment prepared prior to starting. When the sugar changes color you will have to act rapidly. It’s important too to possess even heat when you’re making chocolate. Make use of a heavy saucepan if at all possible. Should you question your pan or perhaps your heating SOURCE, place your saucepan right into a surefire skillet to assist distribute heat.
1) Inside a saucepan over medium/medium-high temperature combine sugar, water and salt.
2) Once the mixture involves a light boil and also the sugar is dissolved, set a timer for 10 mins.
3) Stirring from time to time, watch out for the colour to alter from obvious, to some light amber color. This might take ten minutes or as much as 20, with respect to the heat of medium/medium-at the top of your stove. When the color is really a light, golden amber – have it from the heat! If you’d like, make use of a chocolate thermometer so when the mix reaches 300(F) remove it heat.
4) Working rapidly, and stirring continuously, add butter, vanilla and sodium bicarbonate. The mix will foam. Continue stirring before the foaming subsides and also the mixture begins to get glossy.
5) Stir within the nuts all at one time and rapidly come out onto a plastic baking pad or perfectly greased baking sheet.
6) Flatten the mix when needed and permit to awesome for around twenty minutes, until brittle.
