By Betsy Jabs
Save money and make cinnamon roasted almonds at home. Give them away as gifts to family, friends, and neighbors. They are going to love them!
I used to think these were some kind of magical snack. After all, wouldn’t they have to be magical in order to produce such an irresistibly sweet aroma, to make you want to eat 5-gallon buckets of them, and to be sold for $6 per cup? One of my FAVORITE snacks, cinnamon roasted almonds often eluded my palate thanks to their high price. Until now!
Behold, the DIY cinnamon roasted almond! (So much for losing weight before the holidays.)
Cinnamon Roasted Almonds Recipe
Save money and make cinnamon roasted almonds at home. Give them away as gifts to family, friends, and neighbors. They are going to love them!
- Prep Time
- 5 minutes
- Servings
- 1.5 cups
- Course
- Snack
- Estimated Cost
- $5
Ingredients
- ½ cup cane sugar
- ¾ tsp sweet cinnamon powder
- 2 tablespoons filtered water
- ⅛ tsp salt
- 1 ½ cups Almonds
Instructions
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In a skillet, combine sugar, cinnamon, water, and salt.
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Add almonds to skillet and stir constantly over medium heat, making sure all almonds get coated with the syrupy mixture. Stir until sugar crystallizes and almonds look "furry" with the sugar coating (about 5 minutes). Tip: Don't go too long or mixture will turn back into syrup.
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Remove almonds from heat and scoop out onto wax paper to cool.
Recipe Video
Notes
**If using RAW ALMONDS, spread almonds onto a cookie sheet and toast in the oven for 10 minutes at 350° to bring out a deeper nutty flavor. For best results, do this before cooking in your skillet.
Cleanup: Don’t be alarmed when you end up with a rock-hard crystallized substance on your skillet and spoon after cooking these. Fill your pan with water and drop the spoon in. Sugar residue will dissolve after a minute of soaking.
Enjoy almonds within one week.
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9 Ideas for Cinnamon Roasted Almonds
After filling your house with the yummy scent of these delectable nuts, consider a few of these ideas (if you haven’t already eaten them all):
- Throw them into gift baskets for friends and family.
- Give them as teacher gifts for the holidays with a cute tag that reads, “We’re nuts for our teachers!”
- Keep them out in small dishes for company. (You may have to shoo people away from the dish.)
- Double the recipe and take it to a holiday party.
- Fill a pretty glass jar with the almonds, tie a big bow around it, and take it to holiday parties as a hostess gift.
- Send them with family members to work or school for a sweet snack.
- These cinnamon roasted almonds also make a great neighbor gift for the holidays.
- Top holiday cakes, cookies, or cupcakes with these almonds.
- Tell your family they aren’t very good, and eat all of them by yourself!
So start buying your almonds in bulk, and have fun enjoying this sinful treat! If you are planning to give these cinnamon roasted almonds as a gift just make sure to have the recipe handy for all your satisfied recipients.
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Just made this recipe and they came out great!!! They are barely making it off the cooling pan.
It will work with a mixture of nuts also. I also do this in the oven with a mixture of nuts. I just pour the mixture over the nuts and let them bake in a pan stirring them every 5 minutes.
Wonderful! I have never tried a mixture of nuts with this recipe…thanks for the suggestion!
I am gonna have to make my own cinnamon almonds now cuz my Christmas gift from you guys is HISTORY! 🙁 They are sure yummy! And a healthy alternative to hersheys chocolate covered almonds like what I usually eat!
Haha! Yeah, a better alternative to the almond M&M’s I usually crave around the holidays. 🙂
These are absolutely perfect! I’ve tried other recipes on your site and enjoyed them, so I took a leap of faith and bought four pounds of almonds to give away as Christmas gifts. My husband and I were delighted when we tried the finished product. Your attempts at getting this recipe “just right” we’re a success! I made them for the first time last night and I’ve already had requests for the recipe, so I happily sent them the link to your great site.
As a side note, I accidentally bought salted almonds. Since they weren’t heavily salted, I used them anyway and just omitted the salt in the recipe. They turned out wonderfully (so I can only imagine the correct recipe is that much better.) Thank you for a wonderful recipe!
Hi Betsy and Matt! My Hubby and I loved this recipe, but it was a little sticky. We tried drying them out in the open, but they are hygrospcopic (attract water). We tried freezing them, but they just whined about it. Today I took them out, let them warm up to room temperature then added some cinnamon mixed with sugar and added them to a nice jar.
Now.. it may have been the jar, but I am thinking that maybe you might want to add cinnamon and sugar as the last step to your recipe. It makes them very crunchy. Merry Christmas!
Hey Caeryl – I really want to do these for my wedding favors, but I’m hoping to make them ahead of time and freeze them. I have a vaccum packer, but I’m worried that the sugar will “melt” off if there is even the slightest bit of condensation in the almonds. Did you have any problems with the coating when you defrosted them?