How to Make Delicious Candy - Chocolate Cashew Macadamia Crunch

If you think you can't make delicious candies, you are, simply put, wrong! Making your own homemade candy doesn't have to be hard. Here is a recipe to make a homemade candy that is delicious but not difficult. This one is enough to make your mouth water: Cashew Macadamia Crunch.

The Macadamia nuts give this chocolate candy a touch of the islands. How could the combination of chocolate chips, cashews, macadamia nuts, butter, sugar, and corn syrup not be delicious? Too bad I have become a diabetic. But I'm going to try this with sugar-free chocolate chips, Splenda granular instead of sugar and see how it turns out. I'm hoping there won't be enough corn syrup in a couple of pieces to raise my blood sugar! I think the nuts will counteract the corn syrup--I hope.

CASHEW MACADAMIA CRUNCH

1 pkg (11 1/2-oz) milk chocolate chips
3/4 cup coarsely chopped cashews
3/4 cup coarsely chopped macadamia nuts
1 stick butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp light corn syrup

Line a 9-inch square pan with foil, extending foil over edges of pan. Butter foil. Cover bottom of prepared pan with chocolate chips. Combine the cashews, macadamia nuts, butter, sugar, and corn syrup in a large heavy skillet; cook over low heat, stirring constantly until the butter is melted and the sugar is dissolved. Turn heat to medium and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture begins to cling together and turns a medium golden brown color. This will take about 10 minutes. Pour the mixture over the chocolate chips in the pan. Spread the mixture evenly. Cool and refrigerate until the chocolate is firm. Remove from the pan and peel off the foil. Break into serving size pieces. May be stored in a cool, dry place in a tightly covered container.

Yield: About 1 1/2 lbs

Enjoy! (And eat a piece for me!)

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Chocolate Macadamia Nuts - Delicious and Nutricious

Macadamia nuts were a very important food for the aborigines of Australia for a great many years before they were actually "discovered." Chocolate macadamia nuts are a more recent discovery and a fine one at that. Lets explore the wonderful macadamia nut, unless of course, you are a dog and we will get into that later, and discuss some of its history.

A gentleman by the name of Allan Cunningham is credited with being the very first European to explore of discover this specific nut. The year was eighteen hundred and twenty eight. He was a well-known man that would travel to South Wales and was a known explorer and botanist. He added macadamia nuts to his over one hundred documented plants that he is credited to have discovered while on his journeys. However, it was Ferdinand von Mueller that named this wonderful nut all most thirty years later in eighteen hundred and twenty eight, thus, Macadamia.

One special aspect about this exceptional nut is especially important; these are basically poison to dogs. It will not kill them however, they will be unable to stand for a while and this will last for forty-eight hours.

On the other hand, the shell is exceptionally hard and Macaws are one of the very few or limited number of birds that are actually able to get in the shell and therefore, get to the nut.

These nuts are extremely nutritious and contain a variety of nutrients that are beneficial. Monounsaturated fats are the most important nutrient and make this specific nut number one of any nuts.

Of course this does not mean that a person should go right out and eat many various confection covered macadamia creations. Plain non-salted types would probably be the most nutritious and any additions to this that includes sugars would usually detract from this aspect. Of course, turning down anything covered with chocolate is quite tough to do too.

Skincare is another benefit that this specific nut provides. It is comparable to mink oil and is used extensively in the cosmetic industry due to the nuts oxidative stability properties that include over twenty percent of palmitoleic acid. This is one of the very well known Omega-seven skin nutrients.

Regardless of all these exceptional benefits, these nuts are especially tasty in their selves and anything added to them that in itself is tasty too will certainly add to the overall taste.

Macadamia nuts are especially good alone let alone adding chocolate to them. Then they are simply wonderful. These can be found at many stores from grocery to department and beyond. There are numerous specialty places that sell these too. Although, as far as the absolute best chocolate macadamia nuts are concerned, that is probably best if left to the taster. Find out more tips about macadamia nuts at http://macadamia-nuts.researchguidetips.com??