Peanut Butter Crunch Recipes

Steps:

• Cook sugar, syrup and water until mixture thickens and bubbles (about 230 degrees). Add butter and pecans. Stir continuously and continue cooking until nuts begin to brown or start popping (290 degrees). Remove from heat. Add vanilla and soda and stir thoroughly. Pour quickly in several pieces on large buttered surface. Do not spread with knife or spoon. Allow to cool slightly. Stretch and pull with hands until very thin. (The thinner it is stretched, the more brittle it will be.) When cooled and hardened, break into small pieces. Store in airtight container.

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• To make the butter crunch mixture, melt the butter in a saucepan. Remove from heat and stir in sugar, corn syrup, and water. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture reaches 300 degrees on a candy thermometer. Remove from heat, stir in almonds, and pour out into prepared pan, spreading the mixture with the back of a spoon to fill the pan. Before the butter crunch hardens, but when it is firm enough to handle, turn it out onto a large parchment-covered cutting board and peel away the foil. Allow the butter crunch to cool completely. To finish the butter crunch, wipe the top surface of the candy with a damp paper towel to remove excess butter and allow to dry a few minutes. Have another cutting board or the back of a jelly-roll pan ready to turn the candy over onto. Use a small offset metal icing spatula to spread half the tempered chocolate quickly over the butter crunch. Scatter half the chopped almonds over the chocolate. Cover this finished surface with a piece of parchment paper or foil and place another cutting board or the back of a large jelly-roll pan. Remove top board and paper and quickly spread with remaining tempered chocolate and scatter on remaining almonds (it isn't necessary to wipe the second side because it wasn't against a buttered surface). Refrigerate for 20 minutes to set chocolate. Break the butter crunch into 2-inch pieces. Store candy in a tin or plastic container with a tight-fitting cover and keep at a cool room temperature for up to a week.

Steps:

• Line a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with a piece of parchment paper, leaving 1 inch of paper hanging over each side of the dish. This will help with removing the treats later. Spray the parchment paper with nonstick spray.
• In a 6-quart Dutch oven over medium heat, melt the butter. Add the marshmallows and cook, stirring continuously, until the marshmallows are melted and the butter is incorporated, 3 to 5 minutes. Reduce the heat to low and quickly add the cereal and peanuts; stir to combine. Transfer the cereal mixture to the prepared baking dish. Lightly coat a spatula with cooking spray, then use it to spread out the cereal mixture evenly.
• Put the melted chocolate in a plastic sandwich bag (or pastry bag), cut off one corner and drizzle over the top of the cereal treats. Refrigerate, uncovered, until set, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Remove the cereal treats using the parchment paper and cut into 24 bars.

Steps:

• Bring all, except cereal, to a near boil--be careful not to scorch. Remove from heat and pour over cereal and stir until cereal is coated well. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper or press into greased 9 x 13 pan and cut into squares after cooled.

Steps:

• HEAT oven to 375 degrees F. Coat cookie sheets with no-stick cooking spray.
• BEAT shortening, brown sugar, granulated sugar, peanut butter, eggs and vanilla in large bowl on medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Combine oats, flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in small bowl. Gradually mix into shortening mixture at low speed just until blended. Cover and chill 30 minutes.
• STIR in chocolate chips and candy bars. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
• *Butterfinger candy bars were used in recipe testing.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, oats, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in Grape-Nuts., Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 3 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Flatten slightly with a fork dipped in flour. Bake at 350° for 9-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

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• In a large bowl, combine popcorn and pretzels; set aside. In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, honey and corn syrup. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. , Remove from the heat. Stir in peanut butter and vanilla. Pour over popcorn mixture and toss to coat. Pour into two greased 15x10x1-in. baking pans. , Bake, uncovered, at 250° for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes. Break into clusters; place in a large bowl. Add chocolate-covered peanuts; mix well. Cool completely.

Steps:

• Combine the peanut butter, brittle, feuilletine, confectioners' sugar, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and paddle on medium-low speed for about 1 minute, until homogenous. The crunch can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days or in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
• hazelnut crunch
• Follow the procedure for the peanut butter crunch, substituting the hazelnut paste and brittle for the peanut butter and brittle.
• notes
• If you want to make this nut crunch gluten-free, substitute 1/2 recipe peanut brittle for the feuilletine.

Steps:

• Blend on low speed, (about 30 seconds) cake mix, peanut butter and brown sugar until crumbly.
• Reserve 1/2 cup peanut butter mixture; set aside.
• To remaining peanut butter mixture add water, butter and eggs.
• Mix at low speed until moistened; beat 2 minutes on medium speed.
• Fold 1/4 cup peanut butter chips and 1/4 cup chocolate chips into batter.
• Pour into a greased and floured 9 X 13 inch baking pan.
• In a small bowl, combine reserved 1/2 cup peanut butter mixture, remaining chocolate chips and peanuts.
• Sprinkle evenly over batter.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
• Immediately sprinkle remaining peanut butter chips.
• Gently press into top of cake.
• Cool completely in pan on wire rack.

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• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar until it softens. Slowly add milk and stir until sugar dissolves.
• Bring to a boil and cook until mixture reduces and thickens.
• Add peanut butter and mix thoroughly.
• Add peanuts and vanilla.
• Continue stirring until smooth.
• Serve warm over ice cream.

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• Bring sugar and caro syrup to a boil and remove from fire.
• Mix in peanut butter and corn flakes.
• Spoon out on wax paper.
• Let stand till slightly firm.
• You can also use any kind of cereal that you like for this recipe.

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• Oven@ 350 Crush cereal into shreds.
• Set aside.
• Mix flour, soda and salt; set aside.
• Mix rest of ingredients.
• Beat until light and fluffy.
• Fold in dry ingredients; mix well.
• Drop by tablespoons full onto ungreased cookie sheat.
• Criss-cross flatten with a fork.
• Bake for 14 minutes.

Steps:

• In a microwave-safe bowl, melt peanut butter chips and chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Stir in peanuts and potato chips. Drop by level tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper-lined baking sheets. Refrigerate until firm. Store in an airtight container.