Microwave Peanut Brittle

(from gackroy’s recipe box)

Source: Jim Rogers

Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Serves 8 people

Categories: snack dessert

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup light corn syrup (Karo)
  • 1.5 cups raw peanuts
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp margarine (or butter)
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking soda

Directions

  1. Put sugar, peanuts, salt in a 2 quart pyrex bowl. Add corn syrup. (Don’t stir just dump it in.)

  2. Microwave on high 3 minutes.

  3. Stir and microwave on high another 3 minutes.

  4. Stir in margarine and vanilla and microwave on high for another 2 minutes.

  5. QUICKLY stir in baking soda. (It will foam up and begin to harden.)

  6. Stir welll and pour quickly ponto an aluminum foil lines baking sheet sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.

  7. Cool 30 minutes.

  8. Break into pieces and store in an airtight container. (The peanuts that remain after you break everything apart are great as a topping on ice cream.)

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