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Praline Spiders

a close up of a piece of chocolate cake on a plate

INGREDIENTS:

  • ½ C. sugar
  • 6 Tbsp. butter (3/4 stick)
  • ¾ C. light brown sugar, packed
  • 1½ C. pecans
  • ½ C. milk 1 Tsp. vanilla
  • Twizzlers (legs) cut twizzlers into smaller pieces
  • 2 ounces of chocolate
  • Red Hots (eyes)

PROCEDURE:

  • Combine sugar. butter, brown sugar, milk, pecans and bring to a boil until “softball stage”* (238 – 240 degrees), stirring constantly.
  • Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla until mixture thickens (again stirring constantly), becomes creamy and cloudy, and pecans stay
  • suspended in the mixture. Remove half from the pot. Spoon out on buttered waxed paper, aluminum foil or parchment paper. When
  • using waxed paper, be sure to buffer with newspaper underneath, as hot wax will transfer to whatever is beneath. Put Twizzlers on top of praline cooling. Stir chocolate into remaining praline mixture then spoon the chocolate praline on top. Garnish with red hots for eyes.
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