Triple Treats
Recipe: #24494
July 25, 2016
Categories: Desserts, Peanut, Southern, Birthday, Easter, Halloween, Potluck, Valentine's Day, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Chocolate, more
"Chocolate? Love it! Peanuts? Love them! Caramel? Love it! Most of the "prep time" is "chill time"."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (65.3 g)
- Calories 198.4
- Total Fat - 13.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.1 g
- Cholesterol - 12 mg
- Sodium - 183.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 17.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.9 g
- Sugars - 13.9 g
- Protein - 4.7 g
- Calcium - 64.4 mg
- Iron - 0.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Combine milk chocolate morsels and shortening in the top of a couble boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate and shortening melt, stirring occasionally.
Step 2
Spread half of the chocolate mixture evenly in an aluminum foil-lined 8 inch square pan. Chill 15 minutes or until firm. (Keep remaining chocolate mixture warm.)
Step 3
Combine caramels, butter, and water in the top of a double boiler; bring water in bottom of double boiler to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Stir in peanuts; let cool slightly.
Step 4
Spread caramel mixture over the chilled chocolate mixture.
Step 5
Chill for 15 minutes; spread the remaining warm chocolate mixture evenly over caramel mixture.
Step 6
Chill for 1 hour or until firm. Cut into squares.
Step 7
This makes 1 3/4 pounds of candy.
Tips
- Double Boiler