 Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. Our channel is all about the food. We do taste test recipes, grocery hauls, and what's for dinner. And I am here today with a taste test. So a week or so ago, I went to Kroger and I did a grocery haul. And I hauled this Betty Crocker Brittle Mix, Peanut Brittle Mix. And if you've been watching our channel for a while, you know that I'm wild about peanut brittle. I've tried to make it myself, but it didn't turn out. And I saw this mix and I had to pick it up and try it. So the interesting thing about this brittle mix is that there's no mixing needed, meaning you don't add anything at all to this mix. It's a dry mix. That's what it sounds like. Let me turn it over, show you the instructions. So I have already preheated my oven to 350 and I've greased my pan. And then all you do is sprinkle this mix onto the pan and then you bake it. There you see right there, you bake it. And then you let it cool and then you break it up and it's supposedly supposed to be like peanut brittle. I certainly hope this works. And it actually says don't eat the raw peanut peanut brittle mix. Let me show you the ingredients. Here they are. Peanut sugar, dextrose, which is another sugar, palm oil, cream, dried honey, soy, lecithin, salt, cornstarch, wheat starch, artificial flavor, and soy flour. So I am going to sprinkle this on the pan and I'll show you guys what it looks like when I have it sprinkled on the pan and I'll bake it. And then the other candy recipe that I'm going to try today is this praline mix. I've had this in my pantry for a while and I love pralines. I've never made them myself and this is of course is a box mix. And what you need for this is a third of a cup of evaporated milk, four tablespoons of butter. I'm using unsalted and one cup of chopped pecans or pecan has. And it says you can do it in the microwave but I'm going to do it on the stove top. Let me show you what's in here. Or actually I'll show you the directions first. So here are the directions. You're supposed to cook everything in a heavy bottom pan so I have everything there. Okay so these are the stove top instructions. Like I said they do have microwave instructions as well. And here are the ingredients that are in the box. All right so like I said I'm going to start out with the riddle first and then I will move over to the pralines so stay tuned. Okay so I have opened up the bag and this is what it looks like inside the bag. And so I'm going to sprinkle this on the greased portion of my pan here. And then because I do have a nonstick pan it says to bake it for 11 to 19 minutes. Now it doesn't say whether or not you should path this out or spread it out. I think I'm going to. It's a little different than what I expected. It's very very powdery. As you can see there are a bunch of peanuts but it says to make this or pat it out whatever you want to call it to an eight inch square. I think that's about eight inches about close enough to it. So here it is. So I'm going to pop this in my preheated oven and it says 11 to 19 minutes. So I'm going to check it after 11 minutes and then I will come back when I pull it out of the oven and show you guys the finished product. Okay guys so I just took this out of the oven. At first I cooked it for 11 minutes and it looked just like it did when I put it in the oven meaning it was just powder. So then I added another nine minutes to it which is the max cooking time and this is what it looks like. It looks like it may have gotten overcooked. I don't know but I'm going to let this cool completely. I have my fingers crossed. I hope it turns out good. I don't know guys I'm a little concerned. I'm thinking maybe I should have cooked it in an eight by eight pan. Like a baking dish instead of this cookie sheet where it would spread out so much which is what it called for you to do. But anyway I will I guess hold my opinion until it cools completely and how many of I give a chance to taste it. So I will bring you guys back after it's cooled. We'll taste it. In the meantime I'm going to get started on the pralines so stay tuned. Okay so we are going to start with the pralines and it calls for the mix and this is what the mix looks like. Smells really you know pretty sweet brown sugary. So I'm pouring that in there and then it calls for the four tablespoons of butter. By the way I have my burner on a medium heat and then the four tablespoons of the evaporated milk. And then what it says is to heat them on a medium heat. Heat this on a medium heat until it comes to a boil all over the surface which may take a while. So this is what it looks like and I will show you what it looks like once it starts to come to a boil. Okay so I boiled at a high heat for one minute and then supposed to add in the cup of pecans. You're supposed to take it off the heat and then you're supposed to stir continuously for three minutes. Smells really good guys. All right so it's been removed from the heat and I am just dropping these by large spoonfuls on the parchment paper. Okay so I got about nine pralines out of that and it does start to stiffen up pretty quickly. So it says to let these cool for about 15 to 20 minutes and so we'll let these cool completely. And then Howard and I will come back and we'll do a taste test on the pralines and on the peanut brittle. So see you in a little bit. Okay guys so we are here with the peanut brittle and the pralines. So we're going to start out with the peanut brittle and let me show you what it looks like. So I broke it up the peanut brittle by the way cooled for it's been cooling for several hours now so I have the pralines but here it is and ready to try. Cheers. What do you think? Very crunchy. It's peanut brittle. It doesn't eat peanut brittle much. Yeah you're the peanut brittle expert here. Okay so what I will say is I told you guys that I cooked it initially for nine minutes like the directions called for at nine minutes when I checked it it was still powdery just like I put it in the oven. So I cooked it for another for another 11 minutes and I think I may have cooked it too long. I probably could have cooked it for maybe baked it for nine minutes. I thought you said additional two minutes. No it was additional 11 minutes because that's what it called for got peanut brittle on my sweater. So I think if I did this again I would probably make it in an eight by eight baking pan instead of on the cookie sheet because I really feel like it's spread too much I don't know why you couldn't have made it a lot of the directions called for you to make it in the cookie sheet but I would definitely make it in an eight by eight pan next time. So but it's not bad I would probably give it another try or just try to make my own peanut brittle next time but it's not bad but it does have it's a little bit overcooked but it's it's not bad so what I buy it though it was really easy I did pour some powder out so okay all right what you get by it again um I think I would buy it again but I would cook it in an eight by eight pan instead of on a cookie sheet next time and I would cook it for less time than the package directions called for okay all right pralines all right this is another thing that you like praline and it really does look like the box don't you think it looks like real praline it does I've been to New Orleans before and I've had a real praline and this is what it looks like I just broke it in two cheers that's really good very sweet but I mean it's not so sweet where you can't like it doesn't have a flavor I mean it doesn't taste to me it doesn't taste just like straight just sugar no it tastes like pralines I yeah it tastes like a praline you would buy from the store now these are really good and I made let me see I think I made nine pralines out of that little box I would would you buy these again not a big praline person but yes they're not bad so I would definitely buy these again I am a praline person oops I am a praline person and to me like I said they taste like a praline that you would buy out of the store I have a candy shop like I said I've been to New Orleans I've been you know in the French quarters and had their pralines and these are really good so um I guess for me prefer the pralines to the brittle I definitely prefer the pralines to the brittle I would buy both of them again but I would cook the brittle differently next time okay so hope you guys like this video if you haven't subscribed to our channel I hope that you'll do so and we'll see you guys next time thanks so much for watching bye