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A bright orange bowl filled with a fresh batch of candied maple peanuts and a black silicone spatula resting inside.

10-Minute Candied Maple Peanuts

An incredibly easy, 2-ingredient candied peanut recipe that takes just 10 minutes on the stovetop. Sweet, crunchy, and absolutely addictive!
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Ingredients
  

  • 12 oz peanuts
  • 2/3 cup pure maple syrup

Instructions
 

  • Place a nonstick pan on the stove and add the 2/3 cup of maple syrup.
  • Dump the 12 oz of peanuts into the pan and begin stirring to coat them.
  • Increase the heat to 3/4 high (medium-high) and stir constantly as the mixture begins to boil.
  • Continue stirring constantly as the consistency changes from watery, to thick, to sticky.
  • Watch closely as you see stringiness happening in the sugars, finally culminating in the sugar lightly forming a crystallized coating on the nuts.
  • Immediately remove the pan from the heat.
  • Stir constantly off the heat until the peanuts are completely cool to prevent them from sticking together.

Notes

You must use 100% pure maple syrup; artificial pancake syrup will not crystallize correctly.
Do not step away from the pan! The transition from sticky to crystallized happens very fast.