Homemade Bourbon Peanut Brittle in 20 Minutes

Published: May 21, 2015 Last Updated: Aug 16, 2022 by Marye 575 words. | About 3 minutes to read this article.

This easy peanut brittle has just a hint of bourbon. You can make it in under a half hour -- great for gifts or to fill your own candy dish!

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Total Time 15

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This sweet and salty homemade bourbon peanut brittle recipe is easy to make and it goes from measuring cup to mouth in about 20 minutes! A few simple ingredients, a heavy pan, and a candy thermometer and you'll be eating this foolproof candy in no time.

bourbon peanut brittle is done in less than 20 minutes and it's super easy to make. SO good! --restlesschipotle.com

I may have mentioned one or a thousand times that I have a growing collection of vintage cookbooks and recipes. I pick them up whenever I see one that strikes my fancy, read that whenever I see one.

Now, to me vintage means prior to 1970. I will accept that the dishes I ate in the 1960s could maybe be called vintage but the 70's were just a few years ago. My cookbooks range from the 1920s to the 1960s but I have family recipes that date much further back than that... A lot of the recipes that show up on this blog are those recipes that I have adapted and updated. This is from a 1940s cookbook... except the bourbon part. That's something I did all by myself.

bourbon peanut brittle is delicate with just a hint of bourbon flavor. So easy to make, too! Restlesschipolte.com

OK. I am going to stop right here and tell you that my computer hiccuped and I've lost almost this entire post. I was just about finished and I lost an hour's worth of work. I am sure that y'all would have loved the wonderful story I shared but apparently the universe wanted to keep it short and sweet. SO....

Let's get on with it, shall we?

Let me just say that I usually won't make candy on a humid day -- it just doesn't work out. Well, we have had a month of rain here in Dallas-Fort Worth and cloudy, humid days when it isn't raining. Don't get me wrong -- I love the rain! My tomato plants are GINORMOUS! But it is not good for candy making. Still, I had been putting off making a batch of this homemade bourbon peanut brittle (is there any other kind?) for a month and decided to just make it and hope for the best. This recipe worked beautifully in this humid weather so I think you should be just fine no matter what the weather is at your place. I'm looking at you, Seattle.

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Meet Marye Audet, a wizard in the kitchen and a storyteller at heart. Marye is like your eccentric but fun aunt who knows all the secret recipes and isn't afraid to spill them. She's been around the culinary block more than once, turning simple ingredients into mouthwatering masterpieces. With a sprinkle of humor and a dash of wit, she makes cooking feel like a piece of cake (which she can also teach you to bake perfectly). When she's not conjuring up delicious dishes, you might find her sharing laughs with her family, reading by the fire, or scribbling down her next big recipe idea. Marye believes that a good meal and a hearty laugh are the best parts of life. Marye's a NY Times Bestselling author with 10 cookbooks under her belt and her recipes have been featured in Good Housekeeping, Country Living, Today, House Beautiful, Texas Living, Food & Wine, and many more.

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