Crunchy, sweet Sugared Pecans. Make your own sweet spiced nuts for the holidays. These are the perfect addition to a cheese board and make a wonderful old-fashioned stocking stuffer. Always appreciated by those who enjoy the finer things in life!

I never met a pecan I didn’t like. But Sugared Pecans? Now we’re talkin’. I have a southern friend whose daddy owns pecan trees. Can you even imagine? I can’t, living in the north as I do. 

We do have lovely trees here: lilacs, birches and even Christmas trees.

(Which reminds me of the Christmas tree that used to reside in my front yard growing up. One day we came home and the Christmas tree was gone. Yep. And it didn’t just walk off.

It was harvested, as if we were a tree farm. Which we were not. People: it was in our front yard. And the week before Christmas.)

On to more pleasant topics: pecans.  Yesterday I made a double recipe (5 LBS!) of these Sugared Pecans and baked the entire batch in my turkey roasting pan.

They’re such an easy treat to make and always welcome. It takes about five minutes to mix up a two pound batch and an hour and a half to bake. There. You’re done.

Small investment, huge return, and you’ll have a beautiful stash for stocking stuffers, gift baskets and holiday nibbles.

Coat the pecans, then place in a large roasting pan. Bake for an hour and half, stirring several times. These smell so heavenly baking!

These are the best Sugared Pecans in the world! (Yeah, I’m biased.)

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Sugared Pecans

Sugared Pecans are the perfect holiday treat and the quintessential stocking and gift basket stuffer. This recipe takes five minutes to mix up and yields a two pound batch.

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour 35 minutes minutes

Servings 2

Author Allie Taylor

Ingredients

• 2 pounds shelled pecan halves
• 2 egg whites
• 2 teaspoons cold water
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

Instructions

• Place pecans in a large mixing bowl.
• Separately, froth egg whites and cold water together.
• Pour over pecans and mix thoroughly.
• Stir in remaining ingredients: sugar, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg.
• Transfer to a large baking or roasting pan.
• Bake at 225 degrees, uncovered for one and a half hours.
• Stir every thirty minutes.
• Cool, then store in an airtight container.

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Hello friends, and happy weekend! Hope you’re out tooling about, enjoying fun Christmas activities today. Exciting things are going down at Through Her Looking Glass this weekend!

Several years ago, on a frosty December morning, I came down and discovered this sweet scene…

So we’re having a fun Christmas Photo Caption Contest  for the above picture, complete with an awesome prize pictured below:

Christmas gift package from Through Her Looking Glass:

• Yarnball Christmas Ornament    http://throughherlookingglass.com/?p=1530
•  “An Orange for Frankie” by Patricia Polacco  http://throughherlookingglass.com/?p=1677
• Vanilla Bean Maple Syrup    http://throughherlookingglass.com/?p=1156
• Homegrown Mint Extract
• 2 Christmas DIY Bookmarks   http://throughherlookingglass.com/?p=1133

CHRISTMAS PHOTO CAPTION CONTEST Rules:

(Yup. We got rules. Just like “Always (!) Follow the Rules”. Did you miss that funny post? Click here…  http://throughherlookingglass.com/?p=1076 )

• The Christmas Photo Caption Contest runs from the publish of this post, Saturday, December 6th until Sunday, December 7th, 2014 at midnight. Entries after Sunday night midnight don’t count.
• You may enter twice per person. (Additional entries after the second don’t count.)
• My hubby Jon will be the impartial judge. He’ll judge all entries, but won’t know who authored them.
• A winner will be announced on Monday, December 8th, 2014 on the Through Her Looking Glass blog post. Also on Facebook. The winner will also be notified by e-mail.
• My immediate family (my five guys) may submit entries, but are disqualified from winning the prize. (Sorry guys, I’ll bake you a cake or something. Or peppermint bark?)
• Other relatives can participate. (Why should you be penalized just ‘cuz you got stuck in my gene pool?)
• The only entries that count are comments listed here underneath this post, in the order they are received. (Facebook comments, e-mails and Tweets don’t count.)
• Don’t be grinchy, share the fun! Let your friends and family join in on this Christmas Photo Caption Contest. Share this on e-mail, FaceBook, Twitter and Pinterest. Get in the Christmas spirit, the more the “merrier”!

Can’t wait to see your clever captions! AND GOOD LUCK!!!

Update:

Many thanks to all who took time to think of so many fun, creative captions for the Christmas Photo Caption Contest this past weekend, December 6-7, 2014.  It was so entertaining to see your entries come in.

Big congratulations to Linda (pictured with husband Jack) for her winning entry:  “I’ll just close my eyes for a minute…”  

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