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Chocolate Nut Brittle

Chocolate nut brittle
Chocolate nut brittle
  • Number of servings
    1

Nut brittle is a type of confectionary snack usually prepared with peanuts, cashews, or pecans. Put a simple twist on the delicious, crunchy snack by following our chocolate nut brittle recipe. You can make this nut brittle snack with NESTLÉ Baking Cocoa, melted NESTLÉ Docello Carriba, whole blanched, toasted, and coarsely chopped almonds, glucose syrup and water. When making this chocolate nut brittle, make sure to refrigerate for at least one hour until the nut mixture is firm. After removing from the fridge, you can drizzle the nut brittle with melted NESTLÉ Docello Carribagift.

Ingredients
  • 190g butter, chopped
  • 1 cup (220g) caster sugar
  • ¼ cup (25g) NESTLÉ Baking Cocoa
  • 2 tbsp glucose syrup
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 3/4 cup (120g) whole blanched almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped
  • 1 1/3 cups (200g) NESTLÉ Docello Carriba, melted
Preparation
  • 1
    Grease and line a 28cm x 18cm lamington pan. In a medium saucepan, over medium heat, melt butter; stir in sugar, NESTLÉ Baking Cocoa, glucose and water.
  • 2
    Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture reaches 126°C (hard ball stage) on candy thermometer. Remove from heat; stir in almonds.
  • 3
    Immediately spread mixture into prepared pan. Refrigerate until for 1 hour or until firm (take care when handling pan, as it will be very hot). Remove from pan; place onto a gift board, drizzle with melted NESTLÉ Docello Carribagift with miniature hammer, if desired.

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