Don’t these crunchy candies look good? And they’re made with only five ingredients! These are going in our holiday care packages, for sure.
These candies are made by boiling agave syrup and raw sugar, and then adding baking soda to make the cooked sugar bubble up. Poured onto a baking sheet, the sugar sets and hardens into a crunchy, caramel-flavored candy.
These remind us of the honeycomb candy bars we made earlier this year, but we really like that these are bite-sized. This makes them easier to dip in chocolate and easier to nibble on without making a mess of sugar dust.
We can’t wait to make a batch!
• Get the Recipe: Dipped Agave Candies from Janet Hudson via Flickr
Related: Agave Nectar: Healthful or Harmful?
(Image: Flickr member Janet Hudson licensed under Creative Commons)
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Since agave is so expensive, I really recommend hitting up a discount store and checking their gourmet food section. Last time I was at Marshalls, they had dozens of bottles of agave syrup for sale at relatively cheap prices (and none of it was expired).
THis is a variation on Honeycomb Candies. They are traditionally made with sugar, corn syrup and baking soda. Nigella Lawson has a recipe Called Hockey Pokey
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/hokey-pokey-recipe/index.html
And Martha Stewart has a very famous recipe for Blum Coffee Crunch. A coffee flavored variation of this.
http://www.tantemarie.com/recipes/desserts/blum.html
Blum Coffee Crunch Cakes with Buttercream Frosting were a staple of my childhood birthdays.
it looks and sounds alot like Sponge Candy. I first tried them at Romolo's Chocolate's in Erie,PA and I love it now.
Are these like the British Chrunchie bars? Sure do look like it... and I LOVE them.