Made in your slow cooker, candied mixed nuts are a simple and sweet homemade gift to give this holiday season!
I am a 100% believer in handmade Christmas gifts. A few years ago, I made huge batch of vanilla bourbon extract, packaged it in adorable brown bottles, and gifted them out to all of my coworkers and friends. Last year was cookies… lots and lots and lots of cookies. And this year is candied mixed nuts!
Pat and I threw a holiday party over the weekend – you might have seen some of the details on my Insta stories – and these cute bags of candied nuts were sent home with all of our guests as a treat to enjoy the next day!
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Let’s talk about why these candied mixed nuts are amazing.
- This recipe can is made your slow cooker. The slow cooker I have is no longer available; but this is the improved version of mine and I hear it is wonderful!
- Change up the nuts! Do you have someone with an allergy to pecans or just hate walnuts? No fear – swap the nuts in an out as you would like. Just make sure to keep the same overall amount.
- Oh and they taste amazing. I’m embarrassed to tell you how many I ate as I was packaging these; let’s just pretend that it was zero, but I can assure you it was not.
These Candied Mixed Nuts are an easy way to make homemade Christmas gifts for a crowd! If you make these or any of my other recipes, post a picture on social media and use the hashtag #imhungrybynature for a chance to be featured!
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Candied Mixed Nuts
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 3 hours
- Total Time: 3 hours 10 mins
- Yield: 25 small gift bags 1x
- Category: Snack, Dessert
- Method: Slow Cooker
Description
Made in your slow cooker, candied mixed nuts are a simple and sweet homemade gift to give this holiday season!
Ingredients
- 4 cups pecans
- 4 cups almonds
- 4 cups walnuts
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3 Tablespoons cinnamon
- 3 egg whites
- 2 Tablespoons vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- Liberally spray your slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, mix together white sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
- In a large bowl, whisk egg whites and vanilla together until it becomes a little frothy. Add all of the nuts and stir until the nuts are coated with egg white mixture.
- Place nuts to slow cooker and add sugar mixture, stirring to combine.
- Cook on low for 3 hours, stirring every 20 minutes.
- When there is 20 minutes left, add water – this will help give the candied nuts a glossy finish.
- Cool nuts on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Package in miniature cellophane bags and gift to your friends!
Keywords: candied nuts, holiday, hostess gift
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We gave candied pecans as wedding favors because Alex was sweet, I’m from GA, and we were “nuts” about each other!
Oh my gosh, I LOVE that! So clever and thoughtful – I bet your guests loved them!
THAT IS THE CUTEST.
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I’m obsessed with candied nuts! I totally couldn’t be trusted to bag them for guests without eating tons, either! Self control? What’s that?
ME TOO. I ate a significant amount… O_O
Candied nuts are my favorite thing to get when I go to a craft show or festival! Sooo addicting. This is dangerous now that I know how to make them myself… I love how you packaged them 🙂
Thanks Ashley! And YES – oh man they are so addicting. I definitely ate one too many as I was packaging… oops!
These look SO amazing Ellie! I love mixed nuts in general, but candied ones are even more delicious!!
Thank you Angela! I agree – they are the perfect sweet treat!
Wait, what? They can be made in a slow cooker? I need to try that! Candied nuts are one of my favorite holiday treats!
You bet! Total game changer. I was able to make so many at one time!!
Candied Nuts are my absolute favorite; and they are so easy when you don’t have time to bake. People always loved candied nuts too, often even if they don’t like nuts normally.
Exactly! I’ve never met someone who doesn’t like them. Merry Christmas Emily!
These look so simple to make! Maybe in the middle of my kitchen remodel I could try this.
It is simple! AND you wouldn’t even really need to do it in your kitchen – just wherever you can plug in your slow cooker 🙂
Candied nuts always remind me of Christmas-time. In college I used to go shopping in downtown Boston and there’d always be vendors selling these kind of nuts. I can’t wait to make them myself!
I love that! You can always smell them from a mile away!
I love making my own cookie mix in a mason jar and giving that and homemade chocolate bark as a gift!!
YES! Those are two of my other favorites! This year I also tried something new – preserved lemons. They look pretty so I’m crossing my fingers they taste good too!
I LOVE making (and receiving) homemade gifts! And I bet these smell incredible. Side note regarding twitter: I tried and I gave up haha so can’t help you there!
You should have smelled my house the day I made them. #heaven And seriously?! Yea I have no idea what I’m doing. Maybe if I had a scheduler to plan out tweets in advance that would help but I’m at a loss.
These sound so yummy and Christmasy! 🙂
Thank you!
I’m 100% sold on homemade Christmas gifts too – especially when they look this good! I can’t believe you can do them in the slowcooker. That is awesome! I don’t know what I’d do without my crockpot!
Yes – the slow cooker made this recipe so easy and allowed me to make a TON at once!
These look insanely delicious! I love giving nuts as a gift. They are a luxury food item!
They really feel luxurious, don’t they?!
I love this! Homemade gifts are the best (and super delicious!) 🙂
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They are my favorite! And these make your house smell heavenly! Happy Holidays
I bet your house smells amazing! What a great gift idea – but I’d probably eat it all myself lol. Merry Christmas!
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Oh my goodness you will not believe the smell – it’s heavenly! And yesss I did eat a few too many 😉 Merry Christmas to you Myra!
I love candied nuts, and never thought to make them in the slow cooker. What a great idea!
Making them in the slow cooker was great – it made it super easy to make a LOT at once!
Great idea, these look wonderful! Pinned to try…thanks for linking up at Sunday Fitness & Food.
Thank you Angela – I hope you love them!!
I totally agree about gifting homemade. This is on our weekend must-try list. Not many days left before Christmas is here.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Be well!