brittles
Caramelized sugar treats
Brittles are hard candies made by cooking sugar to a high temperature, then mixing in nuts—typically peanuts or almonds—and spreading the mixture thin to cool and harden.
The result shatters easily when broken or bitten: She made a batch of peanut brittles for the holidays.
The word is the plural of brittle used as a noun for this confection.
Edible underground legume
- almondEdible tree nut
- cashewCurved edible seed
- pecanEdible hickory seed
- toffeeCaramelized sugar confection
caramelized · sugar · candy · crunchy · snappy · glazed · honeycomb · sesame
peanut
Edible underground legume
toffee · caramelized · sugar · candy · crunchy · snappy · glazed · honeycomb · sesame · praline
shatter
Fragment violently, suddenly
crumble · splinter · fragment · rupture · disintegrate · frangible · friable · crumbly · splintery · crackable
crisp
Firm and breakable
rigid · inflexible · hard · glassy · papery · flaky · snappy · thin · crackly · crystalline
- candyhard candy, lollipop, Twix, caramels, M&M's
- confectionsbonbon, bonbons, caramel, caramels, chocolates
- peanut brittleHard candy with legumes
- nut brittleHardened sugar with seeds
- brittle bonesWeak, breakable skeletal tissue
- brittle nailsEasily broken finger coverings
- brittle hairEasily broken head strands
- almond brittleHard candy with nuts