Candy Recipes
Scotchy Pecan Critters
Yield: about 5 dozen candies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk, divided
- 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- 4 cups pecan halves
- 1 package milk chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In heavy saucepan, over low heat, melt butterscotch chips with 1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk.
- Remove from heat. Stir in vinegar.
- Drop by small spoonsful onto wax paper-lined baking sheets.
- Arrange 3 pecans on each butterscotch drop.
- In large heavy saucepan, over low heat, melt chocolate chips with remaining sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract.
- Remove from heat. Hold chocolate mixture over hot water.
- Drop chocolate by heaping spoonsful over pecan clusters.
- Chill for 2 hours, or until firm.
- Store loosely covered in the refrigerator.
Attribution
Canadian Living magazine, December 1991