Richard Sax

Trumps Peanut Brittle Sundae

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    4 cups

    peanut brittle, enough for 16 sundaes—if it lasts that long
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Richard Sax

Published 1994

  • About

Michael Roberts, cookbook author and chef-owner of Trumps Restaurant in Los Angeles (now closed), has devised the sundae of your dreams.

Ingredients

Peanut Brittle

  • 1½ cups sugar
  • ¼ cup cold water
  • ½ pou

Method

  1. PEANUT BRITTLE: Butter a baking sheet; set aside. Combine the sugar and water in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring and brushing any sugar crystals from the sides of the saucepan with a brush dipped in cold water, until all of the sugar is dissolved but before the syrup comes to a boil. Boil the syrup gently, without stirring, until it turns amber,