How To Brand Candied Pecans

Adding that lilliputian extra-special decorative impact to your desserts, salads ... or fifty-fifty breakfast dishes ... is slow alongside Candied Pecans. Follow these uncomplicated steps on how to brand Candied Pecans, thus locomote the tasty results to beautifully transcend & adorn a diverseness of treats!

special decorative impact to your desserts How to Make Candied Pecans

I receive got to admit, garnishing & "prettying up" my nutrient is non my rigid point. Heck, earlier I became a nutrient blogger the idea of garnishing my foods to ambit them that lilliputian extra oculus appeal never crossed my mind. I approximate I'm a subscriber to the "food is inherently beautiful but every bit it is" philosophy!

But ... truth live on told ... a lilliputian sprinkling of fresh herbs, a strategically placed sprig of mint or parsley, a shaving of chocolate, or fifty-fifty but a dash of freshly-cracked pepper tin flame larn a long agency inwards giving foods a lilliputian extra sparkle together with appeal. When it comes to adorning those desserts? Candied Pecans tin flame add together that lilliputian extra-special decorative impact to thus many sugariness treats!

Use Candied Pecans to scatter or brand decorative patterns on cakes ... house inwards the centre of cookies together with bars ... or transcend desserts, cupcakes, muffins, together with breakfast breads. They ambit a wonderful chip of flavour together with compaction to salads, too!

But how to brand Candied Pecans, you lot ask? They're really quite simple, alongside but iii lilliputian steps.

First, simmer pecans on the stove transcend inwards a mixture of granulated saccharide together with water. This allows the pecans to soak upward together with larn coated inwards the sugar. The pecans receive got on a hint of sweetness, but it's non likewise much ... non thus much every bit to blow your sugariness molar out of the water.

Second, bake the simmered pecans. Baking dries the pecans together with "sets" the saccharide syrup mixture.

The 3rd together with concluding stride is to coat the warm baked pecans alongside a sprinkling of saccharide ... to ambit them a concluding impact of sweetness together with brand them extra pretty. The chip of sparkle from the saccharide granules is that lilliputian sparkly impact that makes Candied Pecans thus fun together with festive!

I similar to locomote turbinado saccharide because the saccharide grains are a lilliputian larger inwards size, but granulated saccharide volition piece of job but fine, too. And if you lot desire flavored Candied Pecans? Just mix the sprinkle of saccharide alongside a pinch of soil cinnamon earlier coating the warm pecans.

And that, my friends, is how to brand Candied Pecans. Pretty simple, right? But these uncomplicated lilliputian jewels certain tin flame add together a beautiful extra-special decorative {& flavorful} impact to a diverseness of treats. I've shared a few examples downwards below the recipe, thus tumble out on scrolling to come across how Candied Pecans could live on pose into action.

How to Make Candied Pecans
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

1/2 c. granulated sugar
1/2 c. water
1 c. pecan halves
1/2 tsp. turbinado saccharide {or granulated sugar}

Directions

Place granulated saccharide together with H2O inwards a pocket-size saucepan over medium heat; stir until saccharide is fully dissolved. Add pecans together with simmer for nigh half-dozen minutes.
Use a slotted spoon to withdraw pecans from the saccharide syrup. Lay inwards a unmarried layer on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 - 12 minutes, stirring once.
Remove pecans from oven. While hot, sprinkle alongside turbinado sugar.
Let cool completely, thus shop inwards an airtight container until gear upward to use.

Note For flavored Candied Pecans, combine turbinado saccharide alongside a pinch of soil cinnamon.

Enjoy!

Using Candied Pecans

Use Candied Pecans to beautifully transcend & adorn a diverseness of dessert treats. Rustically scatter or brand decorative patterns on cakes ... house inwards the centre of cookies together with bars ... transcend desserts, cupcakes, muffins, breakfast breads ... together with more! They ambit a wonderful chip of flavour together with compaction to salads, too! While non all the pecans inwards the photos below are candied, they certain could be!

Cakes

Pecan Meringue Kiss Cookies | from

Bourbon-Glazed Sweet Potato Muffins | from

Breakfasts