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5 Ingredient Vegan Candied Pecans. Stovetop Candied Pecans with gingerbread spice or pumpkin pie spice! No Bake! Easy Crunchy Snack and great for gifting. Vegan Gluten-free Soy-free Oil-free Recipe Jump to Recipe
Spiced Candied Pecans are always a hit in the holiday season. These Vegan candied pecans need just 5 ingredients, a skillet and no oil. Toast the pecans on the skillet for a few minutes. Add the coconut sugar, salt, spice mix and maple syrup and continue to cook until dry. These pecans are crunchy, sweet, spicy and just delicious tasting.
Add other nuts for variation. Different nuts take different roasting time, for eg almonds would take much longer to roast. Adjust the time accordingly. The recipe is easily doubled, you can use a tbsp less sugar when doubling.
Ingredients for Vegan Candied Pecans made on stove top
- Pecans
- coconut sugar
- spices such as pumpkin pie spice or gingerbread spice or Chai spice or cinnamon
- salt
- maple syrup
- maple syrup
How to make Oil-free Vegan Candied Pecans
Heat a skillet over low-medium heat. Add the pecans and toast until they start to change color slightly. Let them sit for the first 2 mins then stir every half a minute. 6 to 9 mins
Add the coconut sugar, salt and spices and mix well. Add the maple syrup and mix in. Stir continuously. The mixture will thin out then thicken and start to stiffen. Take off heat.
Transfer to a plate or parchment lined baking sheet and separate the clumps if needed. Cool completely and store in an airtight container for upto 2 weeks. Or gift in jars.
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Vegan Candied Pecans (Oil-free)
Ingredients
- 2 cups pecans
- 3 tbsp coconut sugar, , 4 tbsp for sweeter
- 1 tsp gingerbread spice or pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
Instructions
- Heat a skillet over low-medium heat. Add the pecans and toast until they start to change color slightly. Let them sit for the first 2 mins then stir every half a minute. 6 to 9 mins.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. Stir continuously. The mixture will thin out then thicken and start to stiffen. Take off heat.
- Transfer to a plate or parchment lined baking sheet and separate the clumps if needed. Cool completely and store in an airtight container for upto 2 weeks. Or gift in jars.
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Nutrition
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Yum!!!
Easy and addictive! Thank you
Just made these. They are crazy good! I can’t stop eating them! Love your recipes. Happy New Year!
yay! happy new year to you too!
Forgot to include a rating!
These are delicious!! I tried both stovetop and oven. In both cases I just used regular sugar (3T). I increased the spices a bit, using a full teaspoon of cinnamon and also a sprinkle of cloves, allspice, and cardamon. For the oven, I first baked the pecans at 325, which worked well, but you have to stop right at 10 minutes or they’ll burn. After mixing with the spices, I turned the heat down to 300 and baked for another 10 minutes. That seemed like plenty. Separating them and letting them cool is crucial if you want them to be crunchy. These are supposed to be for a party tomorrow, but my kids and I can’t stop eating them. Thanks for your wonderful blog!
awesome! oops i forgot to add the baking temp, i usually bake at 300 and then at 275
Fantastic! I used brown sugar and honey, cinnamon, some vanilla and salt with nori flakes. It is a hit! Thanks.
Ooh, these would become my latest obsession! I’d definitely try to use monkfruit sweetener for the brown sugar (golden monkfruit, that is). Hopefully it’ll yield very similar sweetness!
I made the ginger spice nuts, quadrupling the recipe for a hostess gift. Very tasty! Hard to keep my hands off it!
yay!
Could I substitute brown sugar? Or would it burn?
yes you can use brown sugar
Great recipe. Much faster than the oven. Took about 10 minutes plus cooling time!
thanks!