Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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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 “Double Peanut Butter Cookies”

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    Brisbane Baker — March 15, 2010 at 11:41 am

    Double PB!? HEAVEN!!

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    yumventures — March 15, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    I love peanut butter too! These look delish!

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    Cara — March 15, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    oh yum. I could so go for one of those right now!

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    Alisa — March 15, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    Yum!We’re crazy about peanut butter too.

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    Justin — March 15, 2010 at 5:14 pm

    i just bought a pack of chips that was a combination of chocolate chips and pb chips… now i’m excited to try them out on something like this

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    Joanne — March 15, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    The more PB the better, in my opinion. These look delicious!

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    Pam — March 15, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    Oh, I am a die-hard PB fan, can scoop a tablespoon of it out and jar and lick it all up. Your cookies look and sound delicious!! Wish I had one of your right now! Yum!

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    nutmegnanny — March 15, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    Peanut butter cookies with PB chips…I’m so in! I could definitely eat a few 🙂

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    Sara — March 15, 2010 at 8:44 pm

    Peanut butter and peanut butter?! Yes, please! 🙂

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    hannah! — March 16, 2010 at 2:45 am

    i love peanut butter and the layout of your blog! cheers!

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