I realize this is possibly the dumbest question ever on the Dope, but after eating a container of peanut brittle–every last delicious crunchy crumb–I think that perhaps I like the “brittle” part better than the “peanut” part.
If I make a standard peanut brittle recipe and leave out the peanuts…will the results be as tasty as eating around the little buggers?
You’re left with caramelized sugar. Which tastes good. We had a name for this when I was a kid, but I can’t remember it.
Well, that sounds tastier than Peanut-Free Peanut Brittle, at least. 
Brittle.
Yes, but we did have some other name for it.
Toffee?
The “brittle” part of peanut brittle is just toffee, isn’t it?
ETA Ninja’d!
Toffee?
Yes, that was it.
Minus the peanuts, you have butter toffee.
ETA: Who am I to argue with consensus?
Fajama Brittle
I’ve had it made with cashews before, and I preferred it over the peanut version.
I LOVE peanuts, but only salted and shelled. Like at the baseball game, with a cold beer. Get out of my brownies, off my ice cream, etc. Yes I am odd.
We called it butter brickle, which Google tells me is actually a trademark for some variation of toffee.
Ok, answering before I read the responses:
Brittle?
Edit:
Ok, well I had a bet with myself that it would be post #2 or #3. I lost by one post. I owe me.
I tore a recipe out of a magazine for Pistachio Brittle which I think sounds amazing, but I’ve never made it.
A friend of mine had some cashew brittle with coconut in it. It was amazing. The coconut really knocked it out of the park. So I went and ordered my own and am currently waiting for it to arrive.
From here:
It’s the brand he had so I just got the same stuff.
I love the stuff with coconut in it, doesn’t matter if it has peanuts or not.
If you make brittle at home, try a batch with some added crushed red pepper flakes. The hot/sweet combination is tremendously tasty.
Make brittle with roasted, buttered and salted pecans for a real treat. Add them just before the brittle is ready since you don’t need to cook them.
One difference between peanut brittle and toffee (besides the peanuts!) is that peanut brittle has baking soda in it, which is what gives it the light, bubble-infused texture. It’s not dense like a Heath bar.