Best Hazelnut Brittle Recipes

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HAZELNUT BRITTLE



Hazelnut Brittle image

Provided by Dawn Casale

Categories     Candy     Nut     Dessert     Bake     Hazelnut     Kidney Friendly     Vegetarian     Pescatarian     Wheat/Gluten-Free     Peanut Free     Soy Free     Kosher

Yield Makes about 2 cups

Number Of Ingredients 6

1/2 cup whole unsalted hazelnuts, skins removed
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon table salt

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 350° F.
  • Put the hazelnuts on a baking sheet and toast them in the oven for 15 minutes until browned and fragrant. Let cool.
  • Prepare a large baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper. Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan set over medium heat. Whisk in the sugar and corn syrup, and bring to a boil. Continue whisking constantly until the syrup is a rich amber color, about 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and carefully whisk in the baking soda and salt. Stir in the hazelnuts and then pour the contents of the pan onto the prepared baking sheet and spread it out into a thin layer. Let the brittle cool completely.
  • Break the brittle into 2-inch pieces. The brittle will keep in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

GILDED HONEYCOMB HAZELNUT BRITTLE



Gilded Honeycomb Hazelnut Brittle image

This is the perfect treat for nut-lovers.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes

Number Of Ingredients 7

Vegetable-oil cooking spray
2 cups blanched hazelnuts
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoon baking soda
Gold leaf, for decorating

Steps:

  • Coat a baking sheet with cooking spray. Cook hazelnuts, sugar, and corn syrup in a saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves.
  • Clip a candy thermometer to side of pan, and continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture is golden brown (290 degrees). Stir in salt and baking soda (mixture will foam), and immediately pour on prepared sheet (do not spread). Let stand until hard, about 2 hours. Break into pieces. Using kitchen tweezers, decorate brittle with gold leaf.

RICH CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH SALTY DULCE DE LECHE & HAZELNUT BRITTLE



Rich Chocolate Cake with Salty Dulce de Leche & Hazelnut Brittle image

Provided by Dawn Casale

Categories     Cake     Food Processor     Mixer     Chocolate     Nut     Dessert     Bake     Birthday     Hazelnut     Party     Advance Prep Required     Kidney Friendly     Vegetarian     Pescatarian     Peanut Free     Soy Free     Kosher

Yield Makes one 10-inch cake

Number Of Ingredients 16

Cake
1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
1/2 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon table salt
Topping
Hazelnut Brittle
1/2 cup dulce de leche
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt

Steps:

  • 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Prepare a 10-inch round cake pan by greasing it with cooking spray and then lining the bottom with parchment paper.
  • 2. To make the cake, pour the hot coffee into a medium bowl and stir in the cocoa powder until it dissolves. Stir in the brown sugar, followed by the yogurt and the vanilla. Stir thoroughly to ensure that all of the ingredients are incorporated.
  • 3. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and granulated sugar on medium speed until light-yellow and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the eggs and mix for 2 minutes, scraping down the bowl as needed.
  • 4. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer running on low speed, mix in a third of the flour mixture and half of the coffee mixture. Scrape down the bowl. Add another third of the flour mixture and all the remaining coffee mixture. Remove the bowl from the mixer and, using a rubber spatula, fold in the remaining flour mixture until all of the ingredients are fully incorporated. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
  • 5. Bake for 25 minutes. Rotate the pan in the oven and bake for 20 more minutes, or until a cake tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Remove the pan from the oven and let the cake cool in the pan for 20 minutes. Then turn the cake out onto a clean plate, remove the parchment, and turn the cake back over onto a wire rack. Let the cake cool completely.
  • 6. In a food processor, pulse the brittle pieces 3 to 4 times until the brittle is powdery.
  • 7. Put the cooled cake on a serving dish. In a microwave-safe dish, heat the dulce de leche on high power for 30 seconds, or until it is just liquid. Spoon the dulce de leche over the cake, and then sprinkle the kosher salt over the dulce de leche. Sprinkle about 1/2 cup of the ground brittle around the outer edge of the cake as a delicious decoration.

HAZELNUT BRITTLE



Hazelnut Brittle image

You can also make this caramel brittle with other nuts, such as slivered almonds or pistachios.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes

Yield Makes one 11-by-17-inch sheet

Number Of Ingredients 4

Vegetable oil, for pan and knife
4 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon apple-cider vinegar
5 1/2 cups hazelnuts

Steps:

  • Combine sugar, vinegar, and 1 cup water in a medium saucepan set over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Cook until dark amber in color, 20 to 22 minutes. Stir in nuts.
  • Oil an 11-by-17-inch baking pan. Pour hot mixture onto pan. Let set until firm but still soft enough to cut. Invert onto a cutting board, and unmold. Working quickly, use an oiled chef's knife to cut the sheet into six rectangles. Store brittle in an airtight container up to 1 week.

HAZELNUT BRITTLE



Hazelnut Brittle image

Provided by Giada De Laurentiis

Time 45m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 4

1 1/3 cups sugar
2/3 cup water
Nonstick cooking spray
2/3 cup blanched hazelnuts, toasted and chopped

Steps:

  • In a small saucepan, mix the sugar with the water until it looks like wet sand. Bring to a simmer over medium-low heat, stirring gently to dissolve the sugar. Simmer without disturbing for 20 minutes, or until the mixture turns a light amber color.
  • Spray a small rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray. Spread the chopped hazelnuts out on the baking sheet. Pour the caramel over the hazelnuts and let sit for 10 minutes, or until hardened. Break into shards.

HAZELNUT BRITTLE



Hazelnut Brittle image

this is not my own personal recipe, i added it for the zaar world tour game and now zaar reps refuse to remove it.

Provided by catalinacrawler

Categories     Dessert

Time 20m

Yield 5 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 cup white sugar
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup light corn syrup
2 tablespoons butter
2 1/2 cups roasted unsalted hazelnuts, sliced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3 drops vanilla
chocolate, for decoration Melted

Steps:

  • Put a large pot or kettle over a medium heat.
  • Add sugar, water, and corn syrup and bring to a boil.
  • When mixture comes to a boil, add butter.
  • Cook to 260 degrees F on a candy thermometer without stirring and add the sliced hazelnuts.
  • Bring mixture to 300 degrees F and stir in salt, baking soda and vanilla.
  • Pour mixture onto a greased baking sheet and spread out and allow to cool.
  • Break up into pieces and decorate with melted chocolate.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 668.3, Fat 45.6, SaturatedFat 5.9, Cholesterol 12.2, Sodium 339, Carbohydrate 64.4, Fiber 6.5, Sugar 47.5, Protein 10.1

HAZELNUT BRITTLE



HAZELNUT BRITTLE image

Yield 6

Number Of Ingredients 4

2 1/2 cups hazelnuts, roasted and skinned*
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup water
3 tablespoons light corn syrup

Steps:

  • Coarsely chop roasted hazelnuts. Set aside. Lightly oil an 11x17x1-inch jelly roll pan. Place sugar, water and corn syrup in medium saucepan. Cook over high heat until sugar dissolves and mixture turns caramel-colored. Stir in hazelnuts and immediately pour mixture into prepared pan. Allow to cool completely and then break into shards.

RICH CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH SALTY DULCE DE LECHE & HAZELNUT BRITTLE



Rich Chocolate Cake with Salty Dulce de Leche & Hazelnut Brittle image

I can imagine Argentinians chuckling when they hear about the recent dulce de leche craze in the States. After all, they have been enjoying this sweet, milky caramel for nearly two hundred years. Relatively new here, and often available in the specialty foods section of the supermarket, dulce de leche can be used in all sorts of ways, but we like to drizzle it on top of what could be considered the moistest, most delicious cake on the planet (I double-dare you to find a better one). The combination has a perfect salty-sweet thing happening that is like a highly addictive sensory overload. I promise, it will have you coming back for more. If it doesn't, perhaps the crumbled brittle that decorates the top will. Recipe courtesy of One Girl Cookies by Dawn Casale and David Crofton, 2012. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc.

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 22

CAKE:
1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
1/2 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon table salt
2 eggs
TOPPING:
1 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup dulce de leche
HAZELNUT BRITTLE (makes about 2 cups):
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon table salt
1/2 cup whole unsalted hazelnuts, skins removed

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F. Prepare a 10-inch round cake pan by greasing it with cooking spray and then lining the bottom with parchment paper.
  • To make the cake, pour the hot coffee into a medium bowl and stir in the cocoa powder until it dissolves. Stir in the brown sugar, followed by the yogurt and the vanilla. Stir thoroughly to ensure that all of the ingredients are incorporated.
  • In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and granulated sugar on medium speed until light-yellow and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the eggs and mix for 2 minutes, scraping down the bowl as needed.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer running on low speed, mix in a third of the flour mixture and half of the coffee mixture. Scrape down the bowl. Add another third of the flour mixture and all the remaining coffee mixture. Remove the bowl from the mixer and, using a rubber spatula, fold in the remaining flour mixture until all of the ingredients are fully incorporated. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
  • Bake for 25 minutes. Rotate the pan in the oven and bake for 20 more minutes, or until a cake tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Remove the pan from the oven and let the cake cool in the pan for 20 minutes. Then turn the cake out onto a clean plate, remove the parchment, and turn the cake back over onto a wire rack. Let the cake cool completely.
  • In a food processor, pulse the brittle pieces 3 to 4 times until the brittle is powdery.
  • Put the cooled cake on a serving dish. In a microwave-safe dish, heat the dulce de leche on high power for 30 seconds, or until it is just liquid. Spoon the dulce de leche over the cake, and then sprinkle the kosher salt over the dulce de leche. Sprinkle about ½ cup of the ground brittle around the outer edge of the cake as a delicious decoration.
  • Hazelnut Brittle
  • Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  • Put the hazelnuts on a baking sheet and toast them in the oven for 15 minutes until browned and fragrant. Let cool.
  • Prepare a large baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper. Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan set over medium heat. Whisk in the sugar and corn syrup, and bring to a boil. Continue whisking constantly until the syrup is a rich amber color, about 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and carefully whisk in the baking soda and salt. Stir in the hazelnuts and then pour the contents of the pan onto the prepared baking sheet and spread it out into a thin layer. Let the brittle cool completely.
  • Break the brittle into 2-inch pieces. The brittle will keep in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

HAZELNUT BRITTLE



Hazelnut Brittle image

Provided by Food Network

Categories     dessert

Time 21m

Yield 1 pound

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 cup white sugar
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup light corn syrup
2 tablespoons butter
21/2 cups roasted unsalted hazelnuts, sliced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Few drops vanilla
Melted chocolate

Steps:

  • Put a large pot or kettle over a medium heat. Add sugar, water, and corn syrup and bring to a boil. When mixture comes to a boil, add butter. Cook to 260 degrees F on a candy thermometer without stirring and add the sliced hazelnuts. Bring mixture to 300 degrees F and stir in salt, baking soda and vanilla. Pour mixture onto a greased baking sheet and spread out and allow to cool. Break up into pieces and decorate with melted chocolate.

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