Most people spend a day or more making Christmas Cookies – but in our house we make Christmas Candy. It’s all gluten free and everyone can sample and enjoy it. And because both of the recipes for Christmas Candy that I’m sharing contain almonds – they’re basically totally healthy – right?
My warning to you with the Burnt Sugar Almonds is this: Beware of Traditions That You Start.
Years ago, I stumbled upon the recipe for Burnt Sugar Almonds over at Pioneer Woman. That year, I made about 4 cups of Almonds – I packed them up pretty and gave them to the neighbors with their Christmas Cards. The next year, I made about 10 cups of almonds and gave them away to my co-workers. The third year, I wanted to do something different – but everyone wanted to almonds – with the exception of last year (our first year in Pennsylvania) I’ve made close to 20 cups of almonds annually since that third year. They aren’t hard to make – but if you don’t want to be making them year after year – don’t start 😉
In our house, we find Burnt Sugar Almonds to be like potato chips – bet you can’t eat just one. This is how I make mine:
I think – you should be able to click on the recipe and print it. At least I hope so. I also want to share the Lavender Lemon Bark that I made for the Belsnickle Tour. We had almost 200 people through the Bed and Breakfast last weekend and it was so much fun. Meeting new people, finding out what they were doing for the holidays and sharing our home and Christmas Candy.
So – I’m going to try and make all the recipes printable from now on. During our downtime this year – I’ll go back and edit the previous recipes. I’d love your feed back on the layout of the recipes.
If you make either of these recipes – I’d love to hear how they turned out. Happy Holidays everyone.