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Macadamia Cashew Crunch Recipe
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Annieamie / All my dishes 2 years, 1 month ago
A delicious candy bar-like recipe that originally came from Hershey's Kitchen years ago. Its a tried and true recipe and is a great treat for gift baskets, bake sales and holiday desserts. Another family favorite! I hope you'll like it, too.
Prep:5m Cook:20m Servings:6
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Ingredients
- 2 cups bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate (The orig. recipe used milk chocolate chips.)
- 1 cup chopped salted macadamia nuts
- 1 cup chopped salted cashews
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 stick softened butter - do not substitute margarine
- 2 TB corn syrup
- *Options:
- This can be made with walnuts, pecans or even peanuts. You can use nuts that are not salted in this recipe.
Directions
- Line a 9 inch pan with "release" aluminum, making sure that the foil goes over the edge of the pan so that you can pick the candy out of the pan with ease. You can butter regular foil and use that instead.
- Sprinkle the bottom of the pan with the chocolate chips.
- Place your butter, sugar, corn syrup and nuts in a large and heavy skillet and cook over low heat.
- Stir constantly until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves. (10-12 minutes on my stovetop)
- Increase the heat to medium and stir constantly until the candy turns into a light golden brown color.
- Watch the candy carefully and stir when the candy starts to stick together. It will get harder to stir at this point.
- Pour the mixture over the chocolate in the pan.
- Spread the candy evenly over the chips. Do not mash the chips and allow them to melt on their own.
- Let this all cool for at least one hour and then refrigerate until firm.
- Remove from pan, peel off the foil and break into pieces or cut into squares.
- ***** I have to add this. I over-cooked this once because I could not get a golden "brown" color out of the sugar mass. It came out like a thick brittle after I refrigerated it and tried to cut it. So watch your candy while it cooks. It was still good but be careful!
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crocwoman 2 years, 1 month ago said:
A person could melt caramels than add the nuts to the melted caramel. This way it is already a golden color.Would that work?
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michelle73 2 years, 1 month ago said:
My mouth is watering! I added it to my Christmas baking list. Thanks!
henrie 2 years, 1 month ago said:
Oh my gosh, does that ever look good, love all the ingredients, adding this to my holiday things too. Thank you for the great recipe.
peetabear 2 years, 1 month ago said:
This added to my candy list. yum
linebb956 2 years, 1 month ago said:
OMG I have such a weakness for this type of candy... Wonderful..
I wonder... could I change out the cashews for pecans... I like them better?
linebb956 2 years, 1 month ago said:
Duh... read the whole recipe linda! I see now that it states you can! Sorry!
krumkake 1 year, 11 months ago said:
Well, I'm glad this just happened to be at the top of your home page list when I added a comment to you just now - I've missed so many wonderful recipes in all my absences lately, I'm so glad I fell upon this one by accident...sounds absolutely DeVine!
jones2888 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Sounds wonderful!
michellem 1 year, 8 months ago said:
Very good! I love crunchy candy...this sounds so good!
cinnamon 1 year ago said:
Annieee, hi! Thanks for sending me this recipe for the bakesale. I ate two batches of this by myself over the last few days! I have to tell you that this was an excellent candy recipe. I love mac nuts as I told you. I never had anything like this while in Hawaii and I have to admit that I'm in love with this recipe. Annie, these are just the best! I'm getting canisters for the holidays and giving this out as gifts to everyone. Oh and I made a batch of this for my neighbors about 2 weeks ago and was asked to make it again and soon. (That's why I made 2 batches the other night. Unfortunately, I ate the batch for the neighbors..hehe! lol )THESE ARE SOOOO GOOOOOD! Thanks for it all!