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Salted Almond Milk Chocolate Buttercrunch
December 12, 2015 by Laura 7 Comments
Salted Almond Milk Chocolate Buttercrunch is the perfect candy for the holiday season–keep it in a Christmas tin or even exchange it at a holiday cookie party!
I have said it before and I will say it again. Food blogging when you have a GI bug sucks. So I am going to keep this short and sweet. I have posted Butter Crunch (spelled that way because it is my mother in law’s recipe and she spelled it with 2 words; however, I have recently seen it spelled as one word, buttercrunch, and so have chosen to spell it that way on this post) before, a traditional pecan version and, in the same post, a version with salted roasted peanuts. I decided this…
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