almond roca
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This homemade almond roca is so fresh and tasty! The recipe is at least 70+ years old came from an employer of mine. Keep the ingredients just the same as printed, and you'll have a favorite!
(1 rating)
yield
8 small gifts
prep time
1 Hr
Ingredients For almond roca
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2 lbreal butter (margarine won't do)
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4 cgranulated sugar (heaping)
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2 ctoasted slivered almonds
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2 csliced almonds
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8 pkgking size plain hershey bars
How To Make almond roca
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1To begin with, toast slivered almonds in oven (watch carefully--they burn fast!). Set aside. Spread a sheet of parchment paper over clean counter top (about 2 feet long). If necessary, tape down corners.
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2Using an 8 quart, heavy-weight pot, begin melting butter on high heat. When half of it is melted, add the sugar. Begin stirring to mix, and when small bubbles begin to appear, turn heat town to med-high.
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3Keep stirring mixture constantly to keep from burning (be alert to a burned odor). When it turns the color of peanut butter, take off heat and add slivered almonds. Stir together quickly, then pour onto parchment paper and spread mixture to about 1/2 inch.
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4Add broken pieces of chocolate bar over top, and when melted (10-20 seconds later), begin spreading over the roca mixture. Lastly, sprinkle almond slices over top.
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5Cutting the candy works best after refrigerating slab for half an hour. When chocolate is no longer shiny and wet, put slab back on counter top, and with a large, sharp chef's knife, press down through candy to break into rows. Cut alternate rows until you have little squares. * You could also push the point of the knife down into candy and break into different uneven-sized shapes.
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6Package in small to medium sized cellophane bags and keep refrigerated until you hand them out. They're tastier if left to room temperature when serving. This recipe should yield around 8 small cello bags of candy to give out.
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