Mixed nut brittle

Love this recipe! Courtesy of Dani.

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Ingredients:

• Two cups of sugar
• 1 to 2 tbsp baking powder [edited to add: next time I'm going to try 2 teaspoonsful]
• 1 3/4 cups salted peanuts or mixed nuts
  That's about 1/3 of this container:
  
  
  

Instructions:

1. Coat the nuts with the baking powder.
   
   
2. Melt the sugar over medium heat in a big, heavy-duty saucepan. Sugar will first clump then liquefy. Stir frequently using a metal spoon.
   
   a) Sugar is starting to clump:
   
   
   b) Clumping continues:
   
   
   c) Very clumpy:
   
   
   d) Starting to liquify:
   
   
   e) Less solid, more liquid:
   
   
   f) Almost done, don't let it burn:
   
   
   
3. When the sugar is liquefied, stir in the nuts. Stir until all nuts are coated.
4. Turn out onto a parchment paper covered pan and spread until brittle is approx 2 cm thick. Cool for 15 minutes or more, then break into large chunks and enjoy!

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Notes:

• the observant of you will notice that the photo for step 2c) showed a plastic spoon and 2d) shows a photo with a metal spoon
• note to the wise, if it's hot enough to melt sugar, it's hot enough to melt a plastic spoon!
  
  
  
  (Yes, this means that we had to dump the first batch and clean out the pot before we could start again with a metal spoon!)