Holiday Almond Roca

"This is a delicious recipe for almond roca. My boyfriend's family loved this last Christmas, but I didn't want to tell them the recipe because it's so easy. Cook time does not include cooling time."
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
5
Serves:
16
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ingredients

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directions

  • Line a large cookie sheet (or two smaller) with aluminum foil, or lay aluminum foil over a large area on the counter or table.
  • Cook butter, sugar and vanilla in a saucepan to hard crack stage (285-290F), while stirring constantly.
  • Once heated, pour onto the aluminum foil lined surface.
  • Spread out to about 1/4-inch thickness.
  • Sprinkle with chocolate chips, let sit until beginning to melt, then spread chocolate out.
  • Sprinkle the top with almonds.
  • Let cool for 2 hours, then break into pieces.

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  1. I'll be making this again & again. It's absolutely delicious AND I messed it up. I didn't realize my candy thermometer had broke before I got everything on the stove. So I think I didn't cook it long enough. It all mixed together & puffed up quite nicely, then I kept on stirring until the butter began to separate & float on top. I couldn't stir hard enough to reincorporate it, then all of a sudden it got a dark streak & then another & I thought it was burning & I panicked that I had cooked it too long & took it off the stove! Whew! I continued with the recipe although I had butter floating everywhere. Luckily I had changed my mind about the flat baking sheet & put the foil in a jelly roll pan. lol The candy is hard if refrigerated (I love it this way), but softens & bends when room temp. It's a tiny bit grainy when warm. I'll be replacing yet another candy thermometer (I use it rarely for candy), & try this recipe again to get the texture & color right. (I did some research on almond rocha & think I should have cooked it longer, that the dark streaks were a good thing.) My goal is to have it perfected by the holidays. Thanks so much for sharing your super secret easy holiday recipe, Tasha! Made in gratitude for encouraging my interest in photo taking.
     
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After graduating from college in spring of 2007, I am now working as a Traffic Engineer. Now that I have free time instead of homework, I've been trying all sorts of new recipes that are more involved. I am always trying to get healthy food into my husband and 7-year old step-son. I am slowly wearing on them, both of them will finally eat vegetables with every dinner. Both of them like helping in the kitchen, especially on mini pizza nights! We have a 4-year old male lab/golden retriever mix and when the two "boys" get going, look out! I participated in my in-law's family Christmas party this year by bringing almond roca. It was a huge hit and everyone wants it again next get-together! I will definately bring it again, but I don't want to give the recipe out to them because it is so easy and I like them thinking I worked by butt off!! A cooking tragedy I once had in high school: I was making some pesto for my mom and I to have with lunch. At the time, I didn't know the difference between a clove and a bulb of garlic and I ended up putting about half a bulb of garlic in the recipe then stopped because I though "two whole bulbs would be a lot"... the recipe read 2 cloves ... Needless to say, we had bad breath for days and I never forgot what a clove was!! I haven't tried all of my posted recipes, but if I posted them I thought they sounded good and figured I should give someone else the chance to try them before I get to them. <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/projects/200_PACpic.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"> <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/Adopted1smp.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket">
 
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