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Candied Vanilla Pecans

You know how they say you should bake fresh cookies before an open house so that your house will smell more enticing to potential buyers? I’m going to go ahead and claim that instead of cookies, you should make these Candied Vanilla Pecans. My house smelled AMAZING last night when I made these. They bake for an entire hour, so the wonderful sweet vanilla scent lingers for a good while. I honestly didn’t want to go to bed and miss any of the awesome smelling air in our place.

The pecans were still warm when I went to bed so I didn’t get to try them until today. Let me tell you, they taste better than they smell. This recipe is amazing. If you’re looking for a last minute holiday gift to make or even a snack to take to a holiday potluck, definitely give this simple recipe a shot.

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Candied Vanilla Pecans

Ingredients:

4 cups (~1 lb) pecans
1 egg white
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 Tbsp water
1 tsp cinnamon
1 heaping tsp sea salt
3/4 cup vanilla sugar (If you don’t have vanilla sugar, substitute regular sugar and increase the vanilla extract to 1 tsp)

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 250 and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.

Mix together the sugar, cinnamon and sea salt.

In a large bowl combine the egg white, vanilla and water. Beat the egg until it’s light and frothy. Stir in the pecans and mix well. Pour in the sugar mixture and stir until all the pecans are coated.

Dump the mixture onto your large baking sheet and spread the nuts out evenly.

Bake about 1 hour making sure to stir every 15 minutes and break up any large clumps.

Cool completely on the baking sheet on a wire cooling rack.

Recipe from Miss Lemonie

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10 Responses to “Strawberry Shortcake Cake”

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    Kate — June 28, 2010 at 11:21 am

    Ahhh. Tougas Farm is my FAVORITE PLACE!!! I have some family members who work there.

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    nutmegnanny — June 28, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    That farm looks awesome! I have never been strawberry picking either. I really should!

    This cake looks great too. What a nice hubby to make you such a delicious cake 🙂

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    Ashley — June 28, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    Oh my, this looks so delicious! I might need to request this for my birthday cake next year, I always ask for strawberry cake. 🙂

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    Karin — June 28, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    Yum!

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    Memória — June 28, 2010 at 10:12 pm

    I’ve been wanting to try out this cake, but I just don’t like the addition of sour cream. I may have to get over my dislike of the sour stuff and make this. It looks great!

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    Jen — June 28, 2010 at 11:00 pm

    We subbed greek yogurt for the sour cream in case that sounds better to you.

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    Cara — June 28, 2010 at 11:33 pm

    I think C should give B a strong hint about birthday cake baking 😉

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    Debbi Does Dinner Healthy — June 28, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    The cake looks fantastic!!! I have never been strawberry picking, I’m sure my kids would love it though. We go apple picking every fall though.

    Funny, I just “found” your blog looking through a bunch of old recipes that I bookmarked in a file like a year ago. I had your Samoas Bars bookmarked to make and I forgot about them. I still want to make them!!!

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    Storibook Designs — July 4, 2010 at 11:09 pm

    I live about 10 minutes from Tougas Farms… great place. Lots of great farmstands in this area actually!

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    Ingrid — September 4, 2010 at 2:54 am

    How nice of him! It does look good.
    ~ingrid

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