Pumpkin Seed Brittle with a Clear Method

For Pumpkin Seed Brittle with a Clear Method, the counter starts with sugar, water, and light corn syrup. Portion it for 30 pieces.

Count on 20 minutes of cooking, about 20 minutes from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

• ¾ cup sugar
• ½ cup water
• 10 tablespoons light corn syrup
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup pumpkin seeds raw
• 1 tablespoon butter
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda

How the cooking goes

1. In a medium pot, stir together sugar, water, corn syrup and salt being careful not to splash it up the sides. Bring mixture to a boil. If sugar crystals do splash up the sides, run a clean pastry brush or paper towel dipped in cold water around the sides until they are clean. Allow the water to wash the crystals down into the cooking sugar mixture. Be sure to do this just as the mixture comes to a simmer so as not to risk crystalizing the cooking sugar with the side granules.
2. Cook to deep gold caramel (less than you would for caramel sauce). It should be amber colored. It should not still look yellow.
3. Take it off the heat, whisk in butter followed by baking soda then pumpkin seeds.
4. Tip onto a nonstick silicone baking mat. You can also pour it onto baking paper.
5. Either pull the brittle using gloves, roll thin between two silicone mats or spread with an offset spatula sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Allow to cool.

After it comes off the heat

Give the plate the rest the method asks for. Cover leftovers and refrigerate them when the dish includes meat, eggs, or dairy.

If you want another plate from Pumpkin, open Pumpkin Coffee Cake Baked Until the Center Springs Back and Pumpkin French Toast for a Slow Morning.