Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Candied Pecans

Another sweet treat that I enjoy making around the Holidays is Candied Pecans. Another easy to make snack. This recipe uses basic ingredients,and the only time consuming part is baking them in the over for an hour.
Ingredients
Pecan halves-3 (6 oz) bags
Egg white-1
Water-2 tbsp
Vanilla extract-1 tsp
Sugar-1 cup
Salt-3/4 tsp
Ground Cinnamon-1/2 tsp
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
2. Whisk the egg white and water till nice and frothy. To this add the vanilla extract and mix.
3. In a separate bowl mix together the sugar, salt and cinnamon.
4. Place the pecan halves in the egg white mixture and coat the pecans evenly.
5. Then coat the pecans with the sugar mixture.
6. Once coated, grease a baking sheet and place the pecan halves onto the sheet and bake for 1 hour making sure to stir them every 15 minutes.
7. Let them cool before storing.
Easy gift giving-Buy a Christmas themed coffee mug. Place some candied pecans in a treat bag tie with twist tie,decorate with ribbon and an ornament and you are ready!!!


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