Macadamia-Coconut Brittle - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup coconut

Preparation

Butter cookie sheet and large saucepan.
In buttered saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup and water, mix well.
Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Cook until candy thermometer registers 275 (soft-crack stage).
Add butter, vanilla and nuts; cook, stirring constantly, until thermometer registers 300 (hard-crack stage).
Remove from heat.
Add baking soda; mix well.
Stir in coconut.
Quickly pour mixture onto buttered cookie sheet; spread very thinly.
Cool 30 minutes or until completely cooled.
(After 5 to 10 minutes of cooling, brittle can be stretched thinner with 2 forks.).
Break into pieces.