Sugar-coated almonds (Gebrannte Mandeln)

[brazen20au]

i'm assuming vivacity has had herself deleted

thanks judy i won't eat them! they're for teacher gifts and i just realised there are only 2 weeks left of school!!!

[johnro]

Just finished making these - in fact still too hot to bottle, but have attached the pic.  Thanks for the recipe  I was in the process of converting my recipe which I have had since Noah built the ark, which uses massive quantities (6 cups almonds and 4 cups sugar) thankfully decided to check the forum. I omitted the spice and added the pink colouring to the  with other ingredients, besides I used blanched almonds as that is what I had in cupboard.  However I found DH stash of almond kernels,  so I am about to do the version without food colouring.  Cheers - Robyn   
The pink colouring works well with raw peanuts!!!!!

[kiera]

I made these tonight, they crystalised at about 17 minutes, I used raw sugar and everything else in the recipe the same.

The verdict: Delicious!

[brazen20au]

i worked out this time around that if you want them to look darker and a little shiny you should stop them a little early, while they're still a little 'wet'. if you want them a bit dry and 'crystally' looking then you should keep going til you can hear the sound of the motor start to change.

[johnro]

Thanks Karen for the specifics re change in motor, perhaps I won't need to keep stopping thermie and judging how close the mixture resembles that of the hand stirred version in frypan in the days pre thermie.  I prefer the crystallised products but finish cooking when the nut still look a little moist particularly at the bottom of thermie.  Cheers - Robyn   

[maddy]

Mmmm, these are so good!