Cinnamon Roasted Nuts

Total Time: 22 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 17 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 5 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 1/2 cups whole almonds or 2 1/2 cups pecan halves or 2 1/2 cups walnut halves

Recipe

• 1 if your nuts are salted, rinse them well, pat dry and place on a cookie sheet in a single layer in a warm (200f) oven. turn oven off and leave to dry overnight. they must be totally dry before proceeding with the recipe. otherwise, you'll have rubbery nuts.
• 2 whisk together water, sugar, vanilla and spices in a nonstick dutch oven.
• 3 cook over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally. it will form a syrup.
• 4 cook syrup until it spins a thread from end of spoon when spoon is lifted (about 6 - 7 minutes).
• 5 add the nuts. stir to coat nuts with syrup. the nuts will clump together in a mass.
• 6 stir constantly until syrup evaporates and sugar crystallizes on the nut, about 10 minutes. do not turn up the heat to try to speed it up - you'll just burn it. keep stirring, they will begin to dry out and will separate.
• 7 pour out onto a wax paper lined baking sheet. allow to cool completely. store in zip top freezer bag.
• 8 to clean the pan: allow the pan to cool, then add cold water and bring to a boil. cover and let simmer 10 minutes.