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I just love chocolate covered roasted pecans!Chocolate Covered Pecans-Steps and Tips

Usually, pecans are covered with sugar or other spices to make candies, pralines, and brittles. However, to make a very yummy and delectable treat which the whole family will enjoy especially during the holidays, it is best to make chocolate covered pecans. You can also make these as your gifts by putting them inside nice-looking containers that really brings the holiday feeling to your loved ones. Chocolate covered pecans are something that everybody can enjoy. Who does not like anything covered with chocolate, anyway?…especially pecan halves.

If you want to know the ingredients, steps, and tips that you need to use and do to make chocolate pecans, read the following information.

• Prepare half a cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips, a couple of cups pecan halves, and three tablespoons of heavy cream.
• Prepare all the equipments and kitchen tools that you will use which are as follows: a deep pan, a medium-sized metal bowl that will fit into the pan, spoons, waxed paper, cookie sheets, stove and refrigerator.
• Mix the chocolate chips together with the thick cream in the bowl made of metal. Make sure that the two ingredients are well incorporated.
• Simmer a pan full of water and place the metal bowl with the cream and chocolate chip mixture into the pan. Melt the mixture thoroughly until it is smooth. Stir the mixture occasionally. Turn off the heat and remove the metal bowl from the pan.
• Add the pecan halves into the chocolate and cream mixture. Stir until each and every piece of nut is already well coated with the sweet mixture.
• Using a spoon, remove each chocolate coated pecan nut from the mixture and placed on a clean and dry cookie sheet covered with waxed paper. Put inside the refrigerator for 10 minutes so that the chocolate will be firm and will not melt from the pecan nuts.

Wanna Buy Pecans?…Steps for Roasting Pecans

Pecans are very popular ingredients in many recipes such as cakes, pastries, and candies. Sometimes, they are even used as the main ingredient for these sweets and other desserts. They add crunch and rich flavour to the recipe, especially. If you want to use roasted pecans in your recipe but you have no idea how to roast these nuts, here are some easy steps for roasting pecans. Maybe you’d just rather buy pecans then?

• Choose medium sized pecan nuts or whatever your recipe calls for. Before you buy pecans, make sure that they are of top quality.
• Place one cup of raw pecans inside the microwave. Wait for one minute. Remove them from the microwave and turn them over to make sure that all sides will be cooked properly. After doing this put them again inside the microwave for one minute. After taking them out and they still look uncooked, repeat the procedure. If they are already cooked. Go to the next procedure.
• Get yourself a spacious chopping board and a sharp knife for chopping. The kitchen knife should be large enough for you to chop the roasted pecans easily. One pecan nut should be divided into quarters. That is the size you are looking for. Try not to chop them into very small pieces.
• Add these roasted pecans to whatever sweet dish or dessert you have in mind such as cakes for that added crunch instead of walnuts or almonds or as toppings for your pastries and pies. They will not just add flavour and crunch to your sweets but they will also enhance the appearance of the foods, making them look more attractive and very nice and yummy to eat.

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How to Make Pecan Brittle with Coconut

For the holidays, there are many available recipes that you can make, especially recipes that use pecans as the main ingredient. One example is the pecan brittle. You can serve this as crunchy snacks or mouth watering desserts to your guests, or even as sweet treats for children. You can also pack or wrap pecan brittles in special wrappers and give them as gifts or giveaways on your party. To add unique flavour to your regular pecan brittle, you can add toasted coconut flakes. Here are the few simple steps on how to make pecan brittle with toasted coconut flakes.

• You will need a cup of chopped pecans, a cup of coconut flakes, two cups of granulated sugar, a teaspoon of salt, half a cup of water, a cup of corn syrup, a teaspoon of vanilla, two tablespoons of plain unsalted butter, a couple teaspoons of baking soda, and additional half a teaspoon of coconut flavour or vanilla.
• Grease your baking pan using butter.
• Toast the coconut flakes. To do this, preheat your oven at a temperature of 350 degrees. Thinly and evenly spread the coconut over a different baking pan. The baking pan should not be greased or buttered. Bake the coconut flakes while stirring them several times until 10 minutes.
• Make the pecan and coconut mixture by adding the chopped pecans into the baked coconut flakes.
• In a saucepan, heat the sugar, salt, and water until the sugar has completely melted. Boil the mixture. Add the corn syrup and wait for a few minutes. Do not stir. Add the pecan and coconut mixture and let it boil a few more minutes.
• Turn off the oven and add the vanilla, butter, and baking soda. Stir well. Put the mixture into the greased pan. The greased pan should be warmed inside the oven which has been turned off after toasting the coconut flakes. Spread the candy pecans evenly. Let it cool and cut into pieces in uniform sizes. Love the Pecan brittle friends!