Brittle Candy

candy · crunchy · nuts · homemade

Hard and snappy. Brittle is a flat candy made from sugar that gets heated until it turns golden brown and hard. When you snap a piece, it breaks into little shards that crunch in your mouth.

Loaded with nuts. The best part is that brittle is packed with tasty nuts like peanuts, almonds, or pecans mixed right into the sugar. You get the crunch of both the candy and the nuts together.

Thin and light. Real brittle is usually thinner than a quarter inch, which makes it easy to break into smaller pieces. This thinness is what gives it that perfect snap.

Temperature matters. Making brittle requires heating sugar to a very specific hot temperature called the hard-crack stage. If you don't get it hot enough, it stays chewy; too hot and it tastes burned.

Sweet through and through. Brittle is one of the simplest candies to make because it only needs a few ingredients: sugar, butter, nuts, and sometimes vanilla. That's why families have been making it for hundreds of years.