State fair vanilla sugar pecans
Author Notes: Whenever I tried to make some roasted nut recipe it never turned out tasting like the fair nuts. These do. —Fran McGinty
Serves 13
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup evaporated milk
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons water
- 3 cups pecans
- mix all the ingredients except the pecans in a medium size pot.
- cook over medium heat stirring constantly until sugar is melted.
- add pecans and stir constantly until no liquid remains in pan.
- lay nuts on parchment lined cookie sheet to cool.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Fair Food
almost 5 years ago eska
I made these today as the method resembled what I saw at the Completely Nuts booth at the Iowa State Fair. These are as close as I have come to finding a homemade version. These really do taste like the nuts you buy a the State Fair. I used almonds instead of pecans, but otherwise followed the recipe exactly. Next time I might increase the vanilla, but otherwise, these are great as is. Thanks for sharing the recipe.