Almond Roca - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 tablespoon corn syrup
1 1/4 cups white sugar
1 cup butter (no substitutes)
1/4 cup water
1 1/4 cups toasted slivered almonds
3/4 cup chocolate chips

Preparation

In a large heavy saucepan, gently boil syrup, sugar, butter and water until\"hard crack\"; appears on a candy thermometer, 300F (150C).
Do not stir.
This step takes at least 20 minutes.
Remove from heat, add almonds and stir well.
Spread on an ungreased cookie sheet and, before candy is allowed to cool, sprinkle with chocolate chips.
As they melt, spread the chocolate chips evenly over the candy.
Cool in the refrigerator or freezer.
Break into bite size pieces.