It is that time of year when we all get visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads. Time to do an inventory of all of our baking ingredients and stock up because it’s time to start making all the wonderful cookies and candies that we love for the holidays. This Maple Bacon Peanut Brittle is a recipe I received from a friend at a Christmas cookie exchange about 5 years ago. Over the years I have used this recipe to make various types of brittle including cashew, almond, and the traditional, peanut.
Bacon is currently “the” craze in America and you can find it in just about everything. I decided to hop on the bacon bandwagon and modify my usual peanut brittle recipe into this stunning Maple Bacon peanut brittle with the addition of maple flavoring and delicious pieces of crispy bacon. How can that be wrong when it tastes so good? When we met Paula Deen and Sons in Savannah, GA last week we told them all about this recipe! They were truly engaged! I was over the Moon with excitement. We just love Paula and sons, Jamie and Bobby. They are good people.
Maple Bacon Peanut Brittle
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1 1/4 cup salted nuts
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract [paid link]
- 1/2 teaspoon maple extract
- 1/2 pound bacon , finely chopped, fried, drained on paper towels
- 1 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper [paid link], lightly spray with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a large glass bowl combine the sugar and corn syrup and microwave on high 4 minutes. Stir in the nuts and then microwave on high 3 1/2 minutes. Stir in butter, vanilla and maple and microwave for 1 minute 15 seconds.
- Working very quickly stir in baking soda until light and foamy, stir in bacon. Pour onto baking sheet, spread as thin as possible. Allow cool completely and then break into pieces. Store in an airtight container
I don’t see any measurement for baking soda in the ingredient list.
Hi Virginia,
Sorry about that! 1 teaspoon is all you need. I added it to the ingredients. Thank you for letting me know!
Made this for my dad. He loved it!
I’ve totally got to try this at Christmas this year.
If you do, please let me know how it turned out and if you liked it.