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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11 Responses to “Oatmeal Chocolate Cinnamon Cookies”

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    Fun and Fearless in Beantown — January 24, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    These cookies look great! Hope you feel better soon Jen!

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    Megan — January 24, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    These look awesome. I love chocolate and cinnamon together.

    Feel better!

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    Rachel @ Baked by Rachel — January 24, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    Love oatmeal cookies! Hope you’re feeling better 🙂

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    Bridget — January 24, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    Aw, I didn’t realize you hadn’t gone to the swap! What a bummer. But then at least you didn’t have to share these cookies. 😉

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    Alicia — January 24, 2011 at 7:30 pm

    Yum. I really love the combo of chocolate and cinnamon! Glad they came out well.

    Feel better!!

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    Shannon — January 24, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    hope you were able to get some rest and are feeling better! we missed you, but hopefully we’ll have another chance to catch up soon. these look great, and i’ve got some cinnamon chips in my house too 😉

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    Elizabeth — January 24, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    I’m not sure I’ve had chocolate & cinnamon together before but I bet the combination is great! And if it’s in an oatmeal cookie, you can’t really go wrong.

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    Heather Lynne — January 25, 2011 at 12:33 am

    I love cinnamon chips and put them in oatmeal cookies. I never thought of putting them in chocolate chip oatmeal cookies-they look amazing!

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    Blog is the New Black — January 25, 2011 at 1:22 am

    Jenn, these sound awesome, and I have some cinnamon chips to use!

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    We Are Not Martha — January 25, 2011 at 1:24 am

    These look wonderful! I’m sure being stuck in the house with a whole batch of them made you feel a little bit better, right? I love cookies with cinnamon chips in them!

    Sues

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    Elizabeth — January 25, 2011 at 8:50 pm

    These look so delicious. Getting sick on important (dessert related!) events is the absolute worst. I think another cookie swap is in your future.

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