Delicious Chocolate Peanut and Pretzel Brittle for Your Happy Time

A few notes: You can alter the atom with pretzels if nut allergies are a concern. I accept alone fabricated this with blah abstract and/or aureate abstract but theoretically, honey and/or maple abstract (early animadversion responses on maple syrup: not positive) as a backup should plan as able-bodied because the abundance is so small. I didn’t do it here, but anticipation it ability be fun to play about with replacing the baptize with beer (you could use up to 1/2 cup) for a added developed flavor.

 

1 cup granulated sugar

 

2 tablespoons ablaze blah abstract or aureate syrup

 

1/4 cup water

 

2 tablespoons butter

 

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

 

3/4 cup broken-up chunks of attenuate absolute pretzels

 

3/4 cup broiled absolute roast peanuts

 

3/4 to 1 cup semisweet amber chips

 

Either grease a ample cookie area or band it with block cardboard or a nonstick baking mat. Get all of your added capacity ready; you’re traveling to charge to add them bound in a few minutes, and you won’t accept time to coursing and measure.

 

Combine sugar, blah or aureate abstract and baptize in a average saucepan, active just until amoroso is wet. Attach a bonbon thermometer and calefaction over medium-high heat, afterwards stirring, until admixture alcove amid 300 and 305 degrees F. If you don’t accept a bonbon thermometer, you’re searching for a baby bulk of the admixture alone into algid baptize to abstracted into hard, breakable threads. This takes absolutely 9 account on my stove.

 

Remove from calefaction and bound activity in adulate (until it melts), baking soda, atom and pretzels until all are coated. Pour bound out assimilate able pan. Use a spatula or, even better, two forks to cull and amplitude the admixture as collapsed as you can get it, alive quickly. Sprinkle with amber chips and let blow for 5 account so that they soften. Once they are all soft, use a spatula to advance them over the brittle.

 

None of us has time or backbone for cat-and-mouse for these to cool, right? I put them anon in the freezer for 20 minutes, afterwards which point the amber is firm, the abject is algid and I get to back-bite the breakable into bite-sized chunks. (I like to lift pieces up assimilate the rim of the baking area and use something abundant to breach them from there. I do not admonish breaking it up with your hands, the amore of which will accomplish a doughy blend of the chocolate.)