I was inspired by this pin of Cinnamon Pretzels. I was doing some last minute teacher gifts, and thought that they would be super easy to make. I had a bag of Dollar Store pretzels in the cabinet, so it was working out to be an easy and fast gift!
The original recipe is:
2/3 Cup Vegetable Oil
1/2 Cup Sugar
2 teaspoons ground Cinnamon
1 16-ounce package Small Pretzels
Combine Oil, Sugar and Cinnamon in a pan and add pretzels to coat. Bake 30 minutes at 300°F Cool on waxed paper.
Okay, people, seriously they came out so bad that I threw them away and didn't take a picture! The sugar did not stick to the pretzels at all. I started doing some looking online, and found that this was a common problem with this particular recipe.
Back to the drawing table!
I was then thinking about those lovely cinnamon glazed almonds. Those seemed to have the cinnamon sugar stick to them. So I found another recipe.
1/3 cup butter
2 egg whites, at room temperature
Pinch of salt
1 cup sugar
4 cups whole natural almonds
4 teaspoons cinnamon
2 egg whites, at room temperature
Pinch of salt
1 cup sugar
4 cups whole natural almonds
4 teaspoons cinnamon
1 Tablespoon pure vanilla
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a large cookie sheet, and set aside. In microwave safe dish, melt butter. Set aside. Meanwhile, beat egg whites with salt until very frothy; gradually (very slowly) add sugar, beating to stiff peaks. Gently fold in almonds and cinnamon. Pour melted butter & 1 Tablespoon Vanilla into almond mixture, and fold in. Pour mixture onto pan, and spread out evenly on greased baking sheet. Bake about 30 minutes, tossing every 10 minutes, until glazing mixture has set up around almonds. Do not wait until the glaze is totally dry. Let cool, then store cooled nuts in sealed container.
*Don't panic if they glaze mixture hasn't stayed in stiff peaks. If will work just fine!
But I am not going to crack open some eggs just for the egg whites. Sorry, I'm too lazy for that.
My recipe was this:
1/3 Cup Oil
1 Tbsp. Cinnamon
1 Cup Sugar
4 Tbsp. Water **
4 tsp. Meringue Powder **
1 16 oz. Bag of Pretzels
**Meringue Powder and Water are substitutes for 2 egg whites. Feel free to use egg whites if you like.**
Combine the oil, cinnamon, sugar, water and meringue power. Toss with pretzels, and bake at 300° for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Since I packed every single one of these up for the class party and teacher gifts, I will have to add the picture later, but I promise they look exactly like those almonds but on pretzels. They were delicious! I am definitely going to be making more for my Festivus Party!
*****Edited to add picture*****
*****Edited to add picture*****
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