Instant Pot Peanut Brittle

Name: Instant Pot Peanut Brittle
Total time: 2 h
Yield: Yield: About 1 1/2 pounds
Ingredients: 3 cups granulated sugar; 1 cup light corn syrup; ¼ cup unsalted butter; 2 tablespoons vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 4 cups unsalted roasted peanuts; Flaky sea salt, optional

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This Instant Pot candy recipe delivers a classic candy shop treat with no intimidation factor. In fact, you don’t even need a candy thermometer to make this perfectly porous and crisp brittle. While it makes a scrumptious treat any time of year, our Instant Pot Peanut Brittle is especially awesome to make during the holiday season. Being that the recipe produces a generous yield of candy, it’s an excellent goody for gifting. A key factor in candy cooking is making sure you sugar granules are completely dissolved. If you want to give your brittle a little test as it cooks, take your wooden spoon or rubber spatula (whatever you’re using to stir the mixture) to scoop a small amount of the melted sugar mixture and spread a thin layer onto a paper plate. This allows you to see any sugar crystals that may still be in the mixture, as well as observe how the mixture hardens as it cools. If the mixture hardens like glass and cracks easily, you know it’s ready.

By Rishon Hanners

Recipe by MyRecipes

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Credit: Kelsey Hansen; Prop Styling: Kashara Johnson; Food Styling: Rishon Hanners

Recipe Summary

active:

45 mins

total:

2 hrs

Yield:

Yield: About 1 1/2 pounds

Ingredients

3 cups granulated sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
¼ cup unsalted butter
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
2 teaspoons baking soda
4 cups unsalted roasted peanuts
Flaky sea salt, optional

Directions

Step 1
Combine sugar, corn syrup, butter, and vanilla extract in an Instant Pot. Stir to combine. Turn Instant Pot to Sauté setting on Low, stirring occasionally, until sugar mostly dissolves; set timer to 30 minutes.

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Step 2
Turn Sauté setting to Normal, and cook, stirring occasionally, until syrup mixture reaches a rich, caramel color and all sugar is dissolved, 15 to 20 minutes.
Step 3
Stir baking soda into mixture, 1 teaspoon at a time, until combined. Bring to a boil, and stir in peanuts.
Step 4
Pour mixture onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, spreading out towards edges of pan. If desired, sprinkle with sea salt. Let cool for about 1 hour. Crack into pieces.

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10/02/2021

This is a recipe that *really* needs to list some ingredients by weight (preferably metric). I used 32 oz of peanuts (aka 4x-8oz cups)...., and that's just way too much. The instant I added them to the hot sugar mix, the entire batch seized up into one huge unwieldy blob. Takes some real muscle power to try to do any sort of stirring at that point. After turning out that blob onto my prepared baking sheet, more hard work to beat it down to get as flat as possible. I used a second baking sheet and did "CPR"-style compressions to get it to all lay flat. The resulting peanut brittle is tasty, but it's a lot of work

homasta47

11/04/2020

The receipt had no measurements, 3 granulated sugar, is this 3 cups 3 oz?

1 light corn syrup, is this one bottle, 8oz?

1/4 unsalted butter, 1/4 of what 1 pound, 1 stick?

2 vanilla extract, 2 bottles, 2 oz?

2 baking soda, 2 boxes, 2 tsp?

4 unsalted roasted peanuts, really only 4 peanuts that want make very much!

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