Brittle vs Honeycomb vs Sponge Candy

Peanut Brittle
1 1/2 cups (300g) sugar
1/2 cup (150g) corn syrup
1/4 cup (57g) water
6 oz (170g) peanuts, roasted and unsalted
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp fine salt
1. Mix the sugar, corn syrup, and water together and set over medium heat.
2. When the sugar reaches 270F (132C) mix in the peanuts and continue to mix until the sugar turns a light golden brown (around 310-320F or 154-160C).
3. Remove from the heat and mix in the baking soda. The candy will foam up.
4. Finish with vanilla and salt and spread onto a parchment lined sheet pan. Let cool completely.
Honeycomb
1 1/2 cups (300g) sugar
1/2 cup (150g) corn syrup
1/4 cup (57g) water
1 tbsp baking soda
1. Mix the sugar, corn syrup, and water together and set over medium heat.
2. Without stirring, let the sugar cook until it reaches a light golden brown (around 310-320F or 154-160C).
3. Remove from the heat and mix in the baking soda. The candy will foam up.
4. Pour gently onto a parchment lined tray and let cool undisturbed for at least 2 hours.
Sponge Candy
1 1/2 cups (300g) sugar
1/2 cup (150g) corn syrup
1/4 cup (57g) water
1/4 tsp powdered gelatin
1 teaspoon water, cold
1 tbsp baking soda
1. Mix the sugar, corn syrup, and water together and set over medium heat.
2. Mix the gelatin with the remaining 1 tsp of water and set aside.
3. Without stirring, let the sugar cook until it reaches a light golden brown (around 310-320F or 154-160C).
4. Remove from the heat and let the mixture cool slightly until the bubbles subside. Mix in the gelatin and stir to combine.
5. Finish by thoroughly mixing in the baking soda and place back over the heat for 30 seconds.
6. Deposit into a 9inch round cake pan that has been lined with parchment paper on the bottom and sides. Let cool undisturbed for at least two hours before slicing with a serrated knife.

[@christinemeili2398]

The sponge looks so satisfying to bite into

[@TheLizard199]

Get you hands on crunchies (uk candy), it’s chocolate covered sponge and so so good

[@Sai0912]

​@@TheLizard199 yeah that's my mom's favourite. I'm thinking to trying this recipe

[@christinemeili2398]

@@TheLizard199 Uhh, thanks:) there’s not so much uk candy available in my country, but I would absolutely want to try that one

[@alfredandersson875]

I could say the same about you

[@MDG-mykys]

Looks it will hurt my teeth

[@JoMcD21]

This channel is probably the best thing to have ever happened to baking.

[@LukeLoureiro-um4em]

That's saying alot coming from you Reverend

[@orangeepants]

I use it to help train my bakers it’s an incredible resource

[@bewtnewt]

@@LukeLoureiro-um4em?

[@whatwasisnot]

Pretty sure that's gas ovens but idk 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@LukeLoureiro-um4em]

@@bewtnewt his profile picture is Reverend Swanson from Red Dead Redemption 2 🤣

[@AmorYMigas]

I’ve never had the Sponge Candy…. But honeycomb is SO good!!!

[@meks039]

thats literally a crunchie is it not

[@YJ-7]

@@meks039Yh it is, never been my favourite but definitely not one I hate. Honeycomb is overrated but it’s still good.

[@Ittybritty196]

In a slightly different timeline, I might've liked honeycomb, but when I first encountered "Chocolate Coated Honeycomb" long ago I was legit expecting actual honeycomb taken from a bee's hive, full of honey, coated in chocolate, and I was *SO DISAPPOINTED* when I took a bite it just ruined it for me. Love me some peanut brittle, though.

[@forsaken7161]

Looks great, but flavourwise? Its Just caramel

[@Doc903]

​@@Ittybritty196 I mean, it exists, but sadly it seems most honeycomb candy has to be bought online.

[@Aranthappyrobot]

It’s amazing how people were able to figure this stuff out, make one wonder what newfound delights (or horrors) you could unleash from just messing around.

[@cyanidenightshade]

watch ordinary sausage

[@ChesterManfred]

​@@cyanidenightshadeI agree, it's a party in your eyes. God bless Mr Sausage. If you're going to watch Ordinary Sausage, check out like five episodes, then look up "The Sausage Database" that's all the info you'll need on both delights and horrors from silly experiments

[@sneakypeakyowo6964]

I think about this so often

[@sebastianls412]

If you want to see the horrors go look at any cook book from the 50s.

[@BamfIamone]

​@@cyanidenightshade truly a visionary ahead of his time

[@pegacis]

I always thought the centre of a Crunchie bar (anyone from uk and Ireland should know) was honeycomb but looking at this it’s probably closer to sponge

[@CalamityCJ]

I was thinking that about Violet Crumble

[@parisewellington3664]

That was my first thought too

[@1987martyn]

I expect UK makes it with actual sugar and not corn syrup

[@LoveMuffin800]

It looks like the sponge but Crunchie bars don't contain gelatine.

[@conspiracypanda1200]

We also have those in Australia! They're my favourite chocolate bars.

[@cora1334]

I feel my teeth sticking together just watching these

[@ardynizunia9709]

Reading your comment I instinctively bit my teeth together really hard and felt that sticky feeling when opening my mouth again too lol. Placebo delusions go brrrrr.

[@Hehehehehhehehehehe]

​@@ardynizunia9709 Same- 💀

[@skuxx1er]

I just had a 'finding out Santa isn't real moment'. I'm 27 years old and just found out honeycomb has no honey in it 😭

[@233Deadman]

Honey can be used in place of the corn syrup. It's pretty much the same sort of thing in being liquid sugar after all.

[@thenlnlkn]

@@233Deadmanthanks for this, I was sad I couldn’t make it without corn syrup, but I always have honey in the house

[@chefb2you]

It traditionally does

[@InvisibleHotdog]

Honey is literally sugar, sub it in if you want but it's a waste

[@Bookasaurus]

Nor does it have any combs

[@nOtHiSiSpAtRiCk715]

My grandma's recipe for sponge candy omits the gelatin in replacement with vinegar. Add the baking soda once it hits hard crack

[@am1156]

Could you give us your grandma's recipe, please?

[@abbilocke736]

Seconding the request for the recipe, if you have it!

[@In.the.darkness_there_is_light]

Thirding!

[@neshasaawez1598]

Fourthing 🙋‍♀️

[@ZapDash]

Fifthing!

[@Phuq-U2ube]

I was hoping the “Honeycomb” was soft and chewy like bit-o-honey.

[@LyricalApathy]

I had a dream where you became a political KZbinr and everyone was like “please Benjamin we miss the dessert content” 😭

[@dinossauro_alfa6697]

"If you mix 2 races, it can create different enviroments depending on how you mix and wich races"

[@chickenwing3946]

@@dinossauro_alfa6697 😭 that’s wild bro

[@BluMndy]

This is a fire April fools prank tbh

[@yts70r135]

@@dinossauro_alfa6697here are the three main types of class struggle still happening nowadays 😂😂😂😂😂😅 Gold, pure gold

[@xosukiii]

girl please

[@ARBricks.]

defo making that sponge version

[@cassidygrey616]

Did everyone just get teleported here 💀

[@goofiestofahhgaming1072]

Fr wtf 💀

[@Royalty_girlie]

Lol these comments fresh 😭

[@proudgaming227]

So this is how a Crunchie is made

[@TashaNight]

my thought exactly

[@h3art_3y3s]

Upsetting to know that honeycomb doesn’t have any honey in it 😅

[@hydroblobber]

Why don't you add some?

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

When my grandma made some she had us dip it in honey.

[@samanthakennedy121]

I wonder if it would work to use honey for some of the sugar?

[@myrakern3662]

I work in candy making and one of the main products I make is honeycomb, we use honey in ours. I’m genuinely surprised myself to learn not everyone does lol

[@No-xh2cs]

You can put honey and honey is very strong tasting. Even just 10% honey gives a very strong honey flavor!

[@aceexceed4105]

I made sponge candy the other day after seeing this and holy shit its so good. You can also use vinegar instead of gelatin as it reacts with the baking soda. You want to use equal parts sugar and corn syrup (dark tends to be better) and each cup of each add 1 table spoon vinegar and 1 tablespoon baking soda. Mix quickly and pour. Youll want to refrigerate it to get it fully set so its brittle and crunchy instead of chewy

[@ARM0RP0WER]

Make a sponge and honeycomb with peanuts i want to know what happens

[@Atlasintokyo]

It's going pretty much have almost the exact same reaction because the nuts is why it had the first reaction

[@Atlasintokyo]

Like I know, my reply doesn't make sense, but the ingredients are almost barely changed, so it shouldnt make that much of a difference

[@Banuna]

I really love this channel! The way you explain what each ingredient is doing and *why* doing things a certain way matters and what happens when you don’t is really interesting even if I never plan on making it myself

[@DonteDiMora]

Sponge candy is a Buffalo NY classic. Very rich on its own, so I like mine mixed into vanilla ice cream.

[@ridiculousrandy1401]

Those honeycomb candies are one of the greatest things ever. Don't like how they stick, though.

[@In.the.darkness_there_is_light]

I’ve heard of honeycomb just in the last couple of years and never heard of sponge candy. I imagine that it’s not only visually different but also a big difference texture wise.

[@thereclaimer248]

Sponge looks like a crunchy bar

[@Tunabreath2001]

Sponge candy looks like a chunk of refined wood

[@Lortnoc-Productions]

Bro, honeycomb is so good 🤤

[@jameswyatt4443]

Classic peanut brittle has no baking soda, and in my opinion it’s so much better.

[@carolinau7048]

In Brazil we call this candy with peanut "pé de moleque", witch means boy's foot , and also without baking soda, and usually we cook it a little bit more to caramelize it to light brown... very good

[@Nikki0417]

I didn't know sponge candy existed. Now, I have to try it.

[@pewpew2499]

Me neither, sounds good though 😋

[@GogiRegion]

I thought it was just thick honeycomb at first. No clue that it had added gelatin.

[@insertcreativityhere7747]

Does anybody else wish they could just eat the molten candy in the pot 😅 it looks so good lol, especially honeycomb

[@No-xh2cs]

Yeah except if you got it on your skin or tongue it would instantly burn it all the way to the muscle layer and because it's sticky it will be hard to remove so it will rip away your tissue lol

[@insertcreativityhere7747]

@@No-xh2cs small price to pay for sugar lava

[@HenkjanDeKaasboer]

Well, technically you can just eat the molten candy from the pot. Or once, at least. Perhaps twice if you're (un)lucky

[@HashtagBucketLife]

oneshot pfp iirc

[@insertcreativityhere7747]

@@HashtagBucketLife got it in one(shot)

[@bankai1211]

The one thing he left out is that the honeycomb tastes like cooked and crunchy marshmallow and melts on your tongue like cotton candy

[@GG-longer-handle]

Anyone else think it looks like mattress foam 😂

[@Turdboi487]

In India, we call the brittle “chikki” and it is largely made with peanut, almond, cashews you name it, the most famous one is of peanut. Instead of sugar, we usually use Jaggery which results in a harder texture.

[@bensosnowski1128]

What is jaggery?

[@Turdboi487]

@@bensosnowski1128 jaggery is a version of cane sugar that is widely consumed in the Indian subcontinent, and we use it as a healthier alternative to sugar in tea and stuff

[@bobguy709]

​@Turdboi487 one of the rawest forms of sugar I believe

[@bobguy709]

it tastee so good to just like have a piece of jaggery in your mouth

[@VenetinOfficial]

The algorithm blessed you today i guess. Good stuff tho

[@tay7418]

I didn't even know the last two were a thing 👀

[@peytonhibbert5652]

Sponge Candy is mainly made in the north eastern part of America because it requires special temperatures to make it properly I’m pretty sure

[@SerenitySoonish]

It's super popular here in Australia, so delicious. We still call sponge honeycomb though, we just call both honeycomb.

[@peytonhibbert5652]

@@SerenitySoonish didn’t know that, thank you!

[@sandywaddell4303]

I never realized there was difference between honeycomb and sponge candy, or sponge toffee, as we used to call it. (Does Cadbury still make Crunchie bars?) Thanks for this!

[@amb-ooli447]

They still make them thankfully I do feel like I see less of them now tho

[@brih.2947]

Cadbury still makes Crunchies, yes!! They're my favourite. Them and Violet Crumbles... they're honeycomb but. They kinda look more lime the "sponge" here, which I've never even heard of before

[@ggborgs]

Why are the comments so recent

[@XKurrA]

Algorithm doing it's thing

[@user-qy1hm3mn6n]

one minute ago lololol

[@Up-North-]

Oh dang, I thought this was just me

[@cosmostardust5624]

Great British Bake off music is a nice touch

[@nathanxu7628]

Team honey comb🗣 👇

[@LadyNerdMT]

Sponge candy is the superior candy! It’s delicate, melts on your tongue, like cotton candy, tastes like caramel, with a hint of bitterness like a roasted marshmallow. If you make it, you must cover it in chocolate or the humidity will melt it. You won’t be able to make it well. If it’s humid in your house, it needs to be dry in your house. If you want to taste the best sponge candy in the country, you need to order from Watson chocolate in New York. Peanut brittle is common place, and honeycomb is the B rated version of sponge candy. Seafoam is pretty good, but still not as good as original sponge candy. And it taste nothing like those candy bars y’all are talking about. Sponge Candy is so much better!

[@GHMYahooka]

sir this is a wendys

[@Maialeen]

@GHMYahooka Ma'am, this is a food channel where people talk about food.

[@chanicelock3151]

The sponge candy looks like the inside of a crunchy bar!

[@Chara_Dreemurr001]

I remember when everyone would be screaming in the comments that this was “squid game” candy

[@user-zh8hj2tn3r]

Uncle Ben what happened 😭. SQUID GAME

[@t-eehee7057]

SQUID GAMES ❗‼️❗

[@Ducksnuget]

I'M MAKING THE SPONGE. I would buy that at Sprouts for $10 per box. If this is anywhere near the same I'm kissing those goodbye.

[@mrtazerface9801]

I FUCKING LOVE THE SHIT AT SPROUTS

[@spartoiss488]

Do it

[@theskeletongodorskelly]

Over here in the uk we'd call the last 2 honey comb. Its a common but tasty treat

[@-_J_-]

Spong

[@gotchiu]

Hi Benjamin! On the off chance you see this, could you do a video on the effects of baking with different sized pans if you don’t have the one that’s called for in the recipe?

[@Amcsae]

That would be great!

[@ZapDash]

Definitely this!

[@TheKitsuneOnihane]

My family pulls their brittle. Makes it FAR better when it's paper thin. So now i can't eat any other brittle. Because brittle isn't brittle unless it's actually brittle.

[@garrettsmith6014]

I was looking for this comment. My grandma used to pull the brittle too. It's a totally different end product.

[@Spoofty33]

Thank you. I didn't realize Honeycomb and sponge were different. Cool.

[@TMIATC]

Homemade peanut brittle slaps so hard. It's very rewarding too.

[@Gio_Bun]

Honeycomb is delicious. It reminds me of 달고나 but the ingredients are a bit different. 달고나 is just sugar caramelized in a ladle then a bit of baking soda is added. Very simple to make, and very delicious 💜

[@thewisewolf768]

Chocolate covered sponge candy is one of the best things ever made. Trust me

[@arbuzow]

thanks for putting the recipes in the description 👍

[@Dragon....]

Super recent.

[@foxmanofterror3003]

What’s with all the recent comments 🤔

[@edstella]

Thanks for the explanation! My partner, family, and I really love honeycomb candy and knew how it was made, but we've had other candies that were marketed as something different, but we thought it was just another kind of honeycomb. Watching this, I realize it was sponge candy! We all wondered how they got it so fine inside and tall!

[@joekutschera9583]

I want to make these now

[@ssp4558]

Imma send some sponge to my buddy with trypophobia.

[@melsyoutube]

OMG so the third one is called “sponge” not honeycomb! and that’s what’s in a cadbury crunchie!

[@Esnaklive]

The third one is called sponge in the video...

[@wimpdis818]

...crunchies call it 'honeycomb' when it's actually 'sponge'. Use your critical thinking skills - the op clearly heard the video call it sponge, otherwise there would be no comment ​@@Esnaklive

[@hiopy8131]

Bros is onto nothing🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯

[@melsyoutube]

thank you for echoing my point! @wimpdis818 you misunderstood my comment @esnaklive. i was calling out cadbury for lying about “honeycomb” when it’s clearly sponge, as the video revealed.

[@lawson6267]

No, it's not. They don't use gelatin

[@sanchezzz69420]

except for the chocolate the last one seemed great

[@matthewklingler5104]

What are the measurements for the honeycomb

[@brick.commenter]

many recent comments

[@Crimson-_-blaze]

KZbin just throwing this at everyone

[@DeviousKitten27]

The brittle one looks so tasty and crunchy!

[@limbo216]

This guy is the best

[@mungbean345]

Anyone ever had success making brittle with some other kind of syrup? I'm allergic to corn among other things. I used to love peanut brittle!

[@katrose402]

i did some research and brown rice syrup can also be used in candy making!

[@aaronstevens82]

Probably maple syrup honestly, I don't make candies like this, but maple syrup isn't as sweet and has a distinct flavor so I don't know how it will change the overall flavor. Though it would probably work super well with the honeycomb and sponge candies.

[@oriontraps6882]

You don’t actually need corn syrup I’ve also made it with no syrup at all works fine

[@mungbean345]

@@oriontraps6882 😯 That's amazing. I'm going to have to give it a try! I haven't dabbled much in candy making thanks to an awful first experience, so I know very little about it. Thanks for sharing your experience!

[@mungbean345]

@@katrose402 Aww, that was a generous expenditure of time. Thank you for that! Sadly, I'm allergic to rice also, but hearing that about rice syrup gives me hope that other syrups might also work! I think once I get moved in a few weeks, I might start a new hobby of experimental candy making. 😄 Thanks again for your kindness in going out of your way to look that up for me!

[@bubble_cookie9000]

Can we add peanuts in the sponge? >->

[@chopstixxz]

I think you could, it'd probably just sit at the bottom though. But sounds good... you think you can have drizzle of chocolate in it?

[@RandomGoofyPosts]

“Spong-“ NOM NOM NOM

[@biuldking5065]

Congrats on a million!🎉🎉🎉

[@John-fg8wf]

Is Honey good as substitute for Corn syrup?

[@_lilyshade_]

Google said it was, but I skimmed the article so you should probably check for yourself

[@tolishaws]

I wanna try the 3rd one

[@peeperng4200]

If you can, buy a cadbury crunching! It contains both the honeycomb and sponge

[@LadyNerdMT]

Don’t bother with the crunchy stuff. Order some real sponge candy from a professional confectionery. Watson’s chocolate New York, makes the best sponge candy I have tried in the whole country.

[@snowyturnip9476]

penus britl E

[@kuggsbuggs]

Please, please share your scientific baking with a cooking book !

[@majorunderdog384]

nah i cant believe this shi rn

[@5erase]

nah i cant believe this shi rn

[@neortik7]

This channel is a gem didn’t they were such concept cor baking

[@wolfiehampton727]

I like how they use honeycomb in British chocolate

[@tshenolomogopodi574]

I love this channel.... Now I'll make honeycomb for my husband, he loves the Cadbury Crunchie like crazy, imagine I bring this around on this birthday

[@lucaspryde6976]

Does this mean that crunchy bar is sponge candy, not honeycomb?

[@chiyowee2721]

Sponge candy is almost exclusive to my hometown! Super happy to see it made here and so many people excited to try it, trust me it's so good

[@neondennon]

I’m dying that looks so fucking good

[@landonkovach5631]

sqiud game

[@filipkohout4704]

sq IUD game

[@levelsabkeniklange]

skiiud game

[@siobhancapell]

How can you make the bicarb soda taste go away? It is always so present in honeycomb. Does the sponge taste less salty because of the addition of glucose?

[@LadyNerdMT]

You don’t taste the baking soda as much in sponge candy it the flavor is different slightly, then honeycomb, and in my opinion for superior. I recommend ordering it from Watson chocolate in New York. It will be one of the most amazing things you will ever try.

[@siobhancapell]

@@LadyNerdMT thanks for the recommendation. I'm actually from Australia, so it will have to wait until I come over next. 😊

[@victoriamiranda-stotelmyre4382]

Thank you for posting the recipes in the description. Brilliant

[@KrigareAvHallarna]

Huh. I didn't know there was a difference between sponge and honeycomb. Thanks for sharing!

[@arctic_void]

KZbin comments go brrr

[@xeriuscollins3172]

Hey what if i dont have corn syrup? Can i use anythin else instead?

[@Elric509]

What you need is dextrose, that's what corn syrup is, it's purpose is that it prevents the sucrose (table sugar) from crystallising by disrupting the crystal mesh

[@Atlasintokyo]

I mean, that's kind of the main ingredient

[@xeriuscollins3172]

@Elric509 ooooohh okay okay so that's why when I cook only sugar after getting cold it gets all crispy okay okay thanks but how can I find or maybe make dextrose?

[@xeriuscollins3172]

@@Elric509 I'm in a bit of a pickle cause I don't have many ingredients but would like to make some sweets as there's no stores close to where I live

[@xeriuscollins3172]

@@Atlasintokyo ow big bruh okay then

[@lisahinton9682]

Once again, I'm learning something I didn't even know I wanted to learn. Thank you, Benjamin.

[@amandamcbride1083]

I’ve never seen the other two versions of peanut brittle candy. That’s really cool

[@deccopgarbage1507]

Now im on top Edit: Nevermind.

[@Tankedmosquito]

So dalgona.

[@blitzboy2934]

My grandma makes absolutely killer peanut brittle. I know the recipe is probably nothing special, but it’s got some of that old lady magic in it.

[@JKLOL267]

Dude, your videos are pretty awesome

[@asmod3u5]

the honey one is very similar to karumeyaki! i think the difference is karumeyaki uses egg whites and brown sugar

[@randimacdonald230]

Is the last one the same as seafoam?

[@Greymond]

Sponge is like the crunchy part of a violet crumble

[@LadyNerdMT]

No, it’s not at all. The crunchy bar and Violet crumble bar are gross compared to real sponge candy.

[@joel1276]

Congrats on 1 million subs!!!

[@amberlon]

Is this sea foam??😊

[@leahography1303]

Honey comb has honey in it tho?

[@FATBOYboss]

And what exactly is honey?

[@YourFreindlyNuisance]

Well, it’s made by bees, but another way is to caramelize sugar, so technically, both of you are right.

[@leahography1303]

@@YourFreindlyNuisance no I mean the candy. That he made. It has honey in it

[@YourFreindlyNuisance]

@@leahography1303 ohhhh, ok.

[@gaving4188]

That honeycomb candy is legitimately to die for. I’m go make some.

[@Cozy-Rozy]

All of them look so good 😭It’s making me Hungry

[@MBOclips]

Is this in everyone feed rn? Lol

[@codebreaker5824]

Hello recent commenters.

[@deevanderheiden]

I didn't even know that there was Spong candy. This is such an informative source. Thank you for doing this.

[@InnuendoXP]

Sponge candy vs honeycomb is the difference between Violet Crumble & a Crunchie bar

[@siobhancapell]

Violet crumble is so much better!

[@b0ss537]

The way you mixed that was not satisfying and I’m sad