Thursday, December 13, 2007

Haylee's Easy Almond Roca

1 C Butter
1 C Sugar
3 T water
1 tsp light corn syrup
1C finely chopped toasted almonds
1C chocolate chips

Melt Butter in sauce pan. Add sugar, water and corn syrup. Cook over medium heat stirring constantly. When sugar dissolves and mixture boils, raise heat and cook untill thermometer reaches 290-soft crack. Quickly poor in 1/2 cup almonds. Quickly poor onto ungreased cookie sheet. Wait 2-3 min, then place chocolate chips on surface. Spread when melted and then sprinkle remaining almonds on top. When hard, crack candy into pieces.

Haylee made this tonight. We are waiting to crack it to see how it tastes, but it sure smells good.

2 comments:

wendy_d23 said...

So how did it turn out? I am not sure I want to try it unless I know it was good.

hayhay said...

It was the best. Well worth trying. We let it sit overnight and cracked it int he morning. It was so good, and pretty too.