Recipes
Creamy Brazilian Peanut Candy
If you like traditional pé de moleque, the Brazilian peanut brittle, you'll love this creamy version too! Check out the recipe and make it for Brazil's June festivities!
Ingredients
- •1 cup sugar (180g)
- •1 cup water
- •1 small carton sweetened condensed milk
- •500 grams raw skin-on peanuts
- •2 tablespoons butter or margarine
Instructions
- 1
Place the peanuts, sugar, water and butter or margarine in a saucepan.
- 2
Cook over high heat, stirring constantly, for about 30 to 35 minutes, reducing the heat as the liquid evaporates.
- 3
Add the sweetened condensed milk and continue stirring until the mixture thickens further and reaches a thick, fudgy consistency, like brigadeiro.
- 4
Turn off the heat and drop spoonfuls of the candy mixture onto a greased baking tray.
- 5
Let the candies set at room temperature for approximately 1 hour and a half. Your creamy Brazilian peanut candies are ready!