How To Make Southern Pralines
CROWD PLEASER ALERT! A Melt in your mouth Christmas treat! This easy peasy recipe is a perfect sweet treat anytime of year too! Let me share How To Make Southern Pralines.
How To Make Southern Pralines
Grab your aprons and meet me in the kitchen! This is a recipe fun to make and fun to share! Melt in your mouth goodness!
What Is A praline Anyway & What is It Made Of?
A common southern treat shared around the holidays, a praline is a sugar coated pecan halves coated with a heated mixture sugar, corn syrup, milk, and butter.
What to Southern Pralines Taste Like?
Melt in your mouth sweet with a deep maple flavor. It is hard to enjoy just one.
How To Make Southern Pralines
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups pecans, toasted with option to chop
Instructions
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Attach a candy thermometer to a heavy bottom pot and add the sugar, brown sugar, and evaporated milk. Stir until it dissolved over medium heat with a wooden spoon.
Continue to stir until the mixture reaches 240° F. Remove the pot from the heat and drop the cubes of butter in without stirring. Let it sit for thirty seconds.
Sugar burns quickly. Keep an eye on it!
Add the vanilla and the pecans and stir with a wooden spoon. The candy will begin to thicken and become lighter in color.
Work quickly and spoon the mixture onto the prepared pan with a spoon or a scoop.
Allow the Southern Pralines set for thirty minutes. When they harden they are ready to eat and share. They can be stored in an airtight container for up to three weeks.
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How To Make Southern Pralines
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups pecans toasted with option to chop
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Attach a candy thermometer to a heavy bottom pot and add the sugar, brown sugar, and evaporated milk. Stir until it dissolved over medium heat with a wooden spoon.
- Continue to stir until the mixture reaches 240° F. Remove the pot from the heat and drop the cubes of butter in without stirring. Let it sit for thirty seconds.
- Sugar burns quickly. Keep an eye on it!
- Add the vanilla and the pecans and stir with a wooden spoon. The candy will begin to thicken and become lighter in color.
- Work quickly and spoon the mixture onto the prepared pan with a spoon.
- Allow the Southern Pralines set for thirty minutes. When they harden they are ready to eat and share. They can be stored in an airtight container for up to three weeks.
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