Caramelized nuts. Good as "candy" or as a sprinkle on ice cream or chocolate cake or other dessert. Very easy, very delicious, very dangerous.

Ingredients:

150 g nuts (whatever nuts you like/can have)

140 g sugar

30 ml water

500 ml boiling water for clean-up

How to:

If you dislike the skin on nuts, remove that first. Of course remove the shell, should you get your hands on nuts in shells. (bake hazelnuts at 200 c for like 5 minutes for the skin to rub off. Soak almonds 2-3 minutes in boiling water for the skin to shoot off)

Chop nuts roughly

Heat a non-stick pan to medium high heat (like 6-7 out of 9). Also turn on your kettle so you have the boiling water ready for cleaning.

When pan is hot you pour in water and sugar. Stir gently with a wooden spoon until the sugar is dissolved

Wait until your sugar water starts to turn golden. Do NOT stir while it does this. Stirring will make it crystallize and be weird.

Put the nuts in and quickly, but gently, stir the caramel goop unto the nuts

Let caramelize until the hue of golden brown you like. This will smell like you're burning the sugar, which, to be honest, you are doing, but that's the point.

When caramelized to the desired color place on a piece of baking paper, preferably on a baking sheet or cutting board

Make it be one thin-ish layer and let cool completely

While you wait for it to cool you boil the remaining caramel out of your pan by simply adding boiling water and stirring it.

When cold, break it up for candy or chop it up for sprinkles

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