SMS - Peanut Brittle

Our host for Sweet Melissa Sundays recipe is JoVonn of The Givens Chronicles and she chose Peanut Brittle. I love making candy. It just amazes me how a few ingredients transform into something completely, just by applying heat (ok, I admit it, I'm a geek). Although I'm allergic to peanuts, I decided to make this week's brittle recipe and take it to work to share. My husband also enjoys it.

A couple weeks ago, we made Roasted Cashew Brittle for SMS, or in my case, Almond Brittle. Given the issues some had run into with the SMS recipe at that time, I decided to use my standby brittle recipe, and I did the same thing this week as well. You can find my recipe HERE.

Spicy Peanut Brittle with cinnamon and a dash of cayenne

A big thanks to JoVonn for hosting this week. Don't forget to check out her brittle post where she'll also have the recipe for you from the The Sweet Melissa Baking Book. Be sure to check out others who embarked on this candy making adventure right HERE.

SMS - Roasted Cashew Brittle

This week’s recipe for Sweet Melissa Sundays was chosen by Stephanie of Ice Cream before Dinner. Her selection of Roasted Cashew Brittle was welcomed with open arms in our household because it didn’t require turning on the oven (we had freaky temps in the 80s this past weekend! This is MN, not CA or AZ!!). Anyhoo. Given the amount of trouble this recipe gave to some of the SMS-ers and how different it was from my go-to brittle recipe, I decided to not take any chances of wasting ingredients, and just make my standby brittle recipe. And I hadn’t made brittle in ages, so Stephanie’s pick couldn’t have come at a better time.

Although I have lots of nut allergies, I can eat cashews. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any on hand and no time to run to the store, so I used almonds instead (I had toasted a bunch of almonds a couple weeks back for snacking and still had some left). To make the brittle even more interesting I like to add ground cinnamon and cayenne pepper for a little kick! So I made Spicy Almond Brittle instead.

Spicy golden brittle studded with toasted almonds