Christmas Baking

Today I completed the last of my Christmas baking, and have a recipe for you. My family is addicted to the roasted almonds we get at Cabela's on the weekends. We can't get enough of them, and they're safe for me to eat since they use real cinnamon while making them. (I have strange allergies, artificial cinnamon being one of them) So for this Christmas, I decided to make up a couple of batches for snacks at the family get-togethers.

Naturally I had to make up a test batch. The original recipe I found on Pinterest is this one. While it tasted right, I couldn't get that crunchy glaze coating that we love. So I modified it. I really kept it mostly the same, just cut the sugar by half. I also considered melting the sugar-cinnamon mixture and just pouring that over the almonds. Maybe another time....

My Cinnamon Roasted Almond Recipe

Ingredients:

3 c Unsalted almonds
3/4 c Sugar
3 Tbs Cinnamon
1/8 tsp Kosher salt
1 Egg white
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract

Directions:

1. In medium bowl combine sugar, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.
2. Whisk together egg white and vanilla until frothy.
3. Pour almonds into egg mixture and toss to coat.
4. Mix in sugar mixture. Make sure you have no clumps, they create problems later.
5. Pour all of this into a crockpot set on low for at least 2 hours, stirring every 20 minutes or so.
6. Once your nuts are done to the point where you are sorely tempted to eat them out of the crockpot, spread them out on a sheet of tin foil until cooled.