Hello there! How is Christmas Eve already? I definitely love Christmas Eve as much as I do Christmas Day, so you better believe Brett and I will be having a relaxing day. Since we live so close to both his parents and my parents, we rotate having Christmas Eve with one side and Christmas Day with the other (which works out awesome because we get twice the Christmas fun!).
If you are doing some last minute party planning/host preparation, I want to let you in on this little recipe I whipped up for caramalized pecans. I adapted my recipe from Gimme Some Oven's Candied Pecans recipe. It is so easy and makes a great snack to have by the Christmas tree or to gift. I was inspired by chocolate turtles, which I actually don't love *gasp*. Chocolate turtles are such a staple Christmas chocolate, and I like all the things in them (pecans, caramel, chocolate), but for some reason don't 100% love it all together. But I digress....
So I decided to make a snack mix with all the things I love that are in chocolate turtles. And it turned out amazing.
Prep Time: 10 min Cook Time: 40 min Yield: 4-6 cups
Ingredients:
4 cups pecans (or any nut really, this would also be great with almonds... yum)
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 egg white
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup Skor chips
1-2 cups milk or dark chocolate chips (depending on your chocolate preference)
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees
2. Mix together dry ingredients and skor chips
3. Whisk egg white until frothy, then add nuts and toss
4. Add dry ingredients to the nut/egg white mixture and stir well
5. Coat a pan with parchment paper (if you don't have parchment paper, aluminium foil would work as well) and spread nuts on pan
6. Bake at 300 degrees for 40 minutes, being sure to give the nuts a stir at the 20 minute mark
7. Remove from oven and let cool until the nuts and sugar coating reach room temperature.
The last thing to do is put the nuts in a storage container or pretty serving dish! I used these cute mason jars embellished (if you can even call it that) with some bakers twine.
I hope you all have a Christmas Eve and Christmas (or any other holiday you may celebrate) filled with love and all your favorite things.
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