Butter Almond Crunch

My mom has been making this every year for Christmas since I was a kid and now that I make it, my kids love it too!  We can barely keep it in the house during the holiday season and it's a wonderful gift as well.  The only issue is that it can be hard to find whole blanched almonds in the store so we have to order them. You can find them on Amazon.com or on Nuts.com.  Totally worth it!!

Butter Almond Crunch

Ingredients

¾ cup butter

2/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup light corn syrup

1 cup whole blanched almonds

¾ cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1.     Melt butter in a heavy skillet over medium heat.

2.     Stir in sugar, corn syrup and almonds.

3.     Continue cooking and stirring until almonds make a popping sound and the mixture is golden brown (8-12 minutes).

4.     Pour candy onto an ungreased cookie sheet and spread out with a heat proof spatula.

5.     Sprinkle chocolate chips over hot candy and when melted, spread out to edges.

6.     When cool, break into pieces and serve.

Happy Halloween 2013

 Trick or Treating was great this year!  Last year I was stuck at home with Declan since it was freezing and he was 5 weeks old but this year the temperatures were really nice!  The kids didn't even have to wear coats over their costumes!!!  Gramma came out with us and it was nice to have an extra set of hands.  They were really good about staying together this year - not like 2 years ago when Aoife kept getting lost!!! 
They got a pretty good haul of candy but wanted to also hand out candy so they went through their bags and sorted out regiftable candy.  They had so much fun sitting on the porch giving out candy.  I think they had more fun doing that than walking around getting it!

Here is the picture I took the day before Halloween - just to make sure that we actually got a picture!

Trick or Treating ended up being postponed by a day because of a crazy rain storm! So we went door to door on the 1st of November - I don't think the kids cared AT ALL!