Carmel Crunch Topping

No milk or cream required to make - great topping for ice cream

Posted by KMOM14

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This recipe is adapted from this recipe at Food.com by celestial_star03.

The above doesn't have the crispy rice cereal in it as I prepared it in advance for a Carmel Apple Pizza (will post that on 10/20/11 as it is part of food challenge by Lady Behind The Curtain) but I did also try it on ice cream mixing in the cereal after heating and it was delicious.

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You Will Need (6 things)

  • 1 cup Water
  • 1 cup Peanut Butter
  • 1 cup Brown Sugar , packed
  • 1 cup Light Corn Syrup
  • 1 cup Chopped Almonds
  • 1 cup Rice Krispies or Crisp Rice Cereal

Steps (4 steps, 12 minutes)

  1. 1

    Melt the butter in a pan. Saute the almonds over medium-low heat for approximately 5 minutes or until the almonds brown.

  2. 2

    Add the corn syrup, water and brown sugar to the pan and mix thoroughly.

  3. 3

    Add peanut butter and mix. Cook for 4-5 minutes until it becomes bubbly and starts to thicken up.

    If serving over ice cream, add crisp rice cereal and stir in and the spoon over ice cream.

  4. 4

    If storing, do not add Crisp Rice cereal until just before ready to serve. Heat up first (put in bowl and microwaved) then add Crisp Rice cereal and pour over ice cream.