Brittle: The Easy Way

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.  Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime.  That's what I'm doing with you vis a vis Peanut Brittle.

This is my grandmother's recipe for Peanut Brittle.  I'd like to change its name from "Microwave Peanut Brittle" to "I Know How You're Gonna Gain Those 10 Holiday Pounds This Year."

It probably shouldn't be this easy to make brittle.  But it is, so here we go:

1 c. sugar
1/2 c. kayro syrup
2 c. dry roasted unsalted peanuts
1 tsp butter (my butter was cold...I divided a Tbsp of butter into thirds and used one of the thirds)
1 tsp vanilla (I omitted this because I ran out of vanilla and have already done my grocery shopping this week)
1 tsp baking soda

Combine the sugar and syrup in a large, microwavable bowl and heat on high for 4 minutes.  Stir in peanuts and microwave 4 minutes more.  Add in butter and vanilla; microwave 2 minutes.  Stir in baking soda.  Pour on buttered baking dish (or if you have an obscene amount of Silpats/rubber baking mats, use one of those, as I did.) 

Holy peanuts, Batman!  This brittle is heavy on the peanuts and light on the brittle.  Which is ok by me.

Warning:  Your dentist is going to hate me

I bet you could decrease the amount of peanuts to get a more balanced peanut to brittle ratio.  Which I may try next time.  I'm glad I clipped all those Kayro syrup coupons...