Spiced Walnuts

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⏱ 25 mins 🍽 2 cups nuts 🏷 Dessert

This recipe creates a beloved Christmas confection of walnuts coated in a spiced sugar syrup. The process involves cooking sugar, cinnamon, and evaporated milk to the soft-ball stage before stirring in walnut halves and vanilla. The mixture is then turned out to set on wax paper. It yields approximately 2 cups of these moreish, sweetly spiced nuts, ready in about 25 minutes.

Spiced Walnuts

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup evaporated milk
  • 2 cups walnut halves
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

  1. Place the sugar, cinnamon, and evaporated milk into a medium saucepan and combine them.
  2. Stir the contents constantly as you bring them to a boil.
  3. Continue cooking until the mixture reaches the soft stage, registering 235°-240° on a candy thermometer.
  4. You can test for the soft stage by dropping a small amount into cold water. it should form a soft, flexible ball.
  5. Mix in the walnut halves and the vanilla.
  6. Keep stirring the mixture until it becomes too stiff to stir any further.
  7. Transfer the contents onto wax paper and allow them to cool completely.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium47100 mg

Recipe details

CategoryDessert
Author-Tulip-