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Everyone loves snack mixes during the holidays!Easy finger food appetizersand party nuts are always popular at party time. Here is my collection of 7 Holiday Spiced Nuts recipes to spice up your holiday entertaining.Sweet, salty, and savoury, there is a recipe here that's just right for you!
Make your own spiced nuts!
Serve party nuts to your friends as a co*cktail snack, or as a finger food appetizer. Give them as gifts, wrapped in small boxes, bags or jars. These spiced nuts recipes make irresistibly sweet or savoury party snacks. Best of all, they can be made well in advance of your get-together.
If you make them ahead of time, you'll always have a snack mix ready for unexpected company. They're quick and easy to make at the last minute, too. These can be ready to eat in 20 minutes or less!
Spiced nuts make healthy salad toppers, too. For example, Caramel Spiced Pecans are delicious on this popular Butternut Squash Salad with Cranberries and Feta. Or try Pumpkin Spice Pecans on Fennel Apple Chicken Salad or Quinoa Salad with Cranberries and Pears.
Spiced nuts have so many uses
Make a batch or two for
finger food appetizers
co*cktail snacks
hostess, teacher or neighbour gifts
salad toppers
healthier snacks for the holidays
❓Frequently Asked Questions about Spiced Nuts
How long will spiced nuts or party nuts stay fresh?
You can make them at least two weeks in advance if you store them in an airtight container.
Can you freeze spiced nuts?
Yes, spiced nuts freeze well. You can store them in freezer-safe containers for up to 3 months or so.
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Spiced nuts have so many uses
❓Frequently Asked Questions about Spiced Nuts
Espresso Glazed Holiday Nut Mix
Sweet and Spicy Pretzel Nut Snack Mix
Gingerbread Spiced Nuts
Low-Carb Roasted Pumpkin Spice Pecans
20-Minute Caramel Spiced Pecans
Spanish Spiced Almonds (Almendras Fritas)
Sweet and Spicy Rosemary Nuts-my favourite!
Espresso Glazed Holiday Nut Mix
Espresso Glazed Holiday Nut Mix
Make this easy 4-ingredient Espresso Glazed Holiday Nut Mix as gifts for friends and family. These party nuts are a popular snack at holiday parties or game day get-togethers.
This Sweet and Spicy Pretzel and Nut Snack Mix is a popular co*cktail mix to make and have on hand for holiday snacking! Combine nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon, cayenne, maple syrup and flaky sea salt with pretzels. Addictive!
Sweet and Spicy Pretzel and Nut Snack Mix
Gingerbread Spiced Nuts
Sweet and Spicy Gingerbread Spiced Nuts
Mixed party nuts, spiced with gingerbread spice, coconut sugar, paprika and pepper. Sweet and spicy! These gingerbread spiced nuts make a great party snack or hostess gift.
Warm fall spices make these low-carb roasted Pumpkin Spice Pecans a sugar-free treat! Serve these party nuts as a low-carb snack, as a topping for yogurt and berries, or add to a salad.
Low-Carb Roasted Pumpkin Spice Pecans
20-Minute Caramel Spiced Pecans
20 minute Caramel Spiced Pecans
This recipe for caramel spiced pecans makes sweet and salty crunchy pecans with a chilli powder kick! Here's a quick recipe for a holiday treat,for gift-giving or to use as a salad topper. Ready in about 20 minutes.
20 minute Caramel Spiced Pecans
Spanish Spiced Almonds (Almendras Fritas)
Spanish Spiced Almonds (Almendras Fritas)
A small bowl of these salty, smoky Spanish Spiced Almonds tapas, known as Almendras Fritas in Spain, makes a great shared starter or a happy hour snack. Serve these spiced nuts at a tapas party! Delightfully addictive!
Spanish Spiced Almonds (Almendras Fritas)
Sweet and Spicy Rosemary Nuts-my favourite!
Sweet and Spicy Rosemary Nuts
Make a batch of this holiday nut mix for a quick and easy party snack. Add seasoned honey, drizzle over mixed nuts and bake in the oven. Ready in less than half an hour.
Sweet and Spicy Rosemary Nuts
It's hard to choose just one of these co*cktail party snacks! Enjoy these holiday spiced nuts recipes with your family and friends.
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Receiving a handful of walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds was a coveted gift, symbolic of prosperity and good luck. Over time, this tradition has continued, with nuts becoming a staple of our Christmas fare.
You can also fill paper candy cups or mini muffin cups with a variety of nuts, crackers or cheese cubes. For an elegant new way to serve co*cktail-hour snacks…break out those sterling silver demitasse spoons your grandmother left you and fill one bowl with spoons and another with nuts.
All of this evidence shows that nuts have been a staple in the human diet for since the beginnings of history. The oldest walnut remains were discovered in Iraq, and they are believed to be from 50,000 B.C. The Greeks and Romans were fond of the walnut, and they were considered food for Gods by early Romans.
Macadamia nuts are the world's most expensive nuts. The farmland for growing macadamias is worth millions of dollars and the price only keeps increasing.
Even today, Italian-Americans carry on the tradition of ending holiday meals with “chestnuts roasting on an open fire” and a glass of wine. The smell of roasted chestnuts on a cold late Autumn-Winter day is enough to fill your soul with pleasure. It is one of my most memorable smells of Christmas.
Pistachio – Pistachios are the Christmas Nut. In my home growing up, the only time we ever saw the pistachio was at Christmas time. It was always exciting to see the special treat, and the many sweet and delightful combinations of treats made with them. They are said to bring good luck to the holiday.
Best of all, because it was easy and we did it together: we cracked almonds, Brazil nuts, filberts, walnuts, and pecans in shells. While reminiscing about our favorite memories from the past year, we would laugh at funny stories and sing along to old holiday tunes playing softly on the radio while we did this work.
For healthy snacking think focusing your snack options around veggies, dried fruit, and nuts. Things like trail mix, pistachios, almonds, cashews, or veggie chips are crowd favorites and perfect staples.
The creaminess of cashews and slightly tart cranberries are perfection, in my eyes. Peanuts, raisins, and sunflower seeds. These are like the peanut butter & jelly of snacking for me - it's classic and everybody likes it. Dried apple & toasted pecans.
Almonds, walnuts, cashews, groundnut, pistachio, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, are among some of the healthy nuts that should be added in daily diet.
The Pecan nut is native only to North America, and remains of Pecans were found in excavations in Texas with other artifacts that date back to 6100 B.C. The United States produces about 80% of the world supply of Pecans, with Georgia and Texas leading in production.
Walnuts are one of the world's most popular nuts. The world is consuming more groundnuts and tree nuts than ever before due to the health benefits associated with these nuts. Peanuts are the most consumed groundnut while almond is the most consumed tree nut.
These include common, widely known types of nuts such as almonds, walnuts, pecans, cashews, hazelnuts, peanuts, macadamia nuts, pine nuts, Brazil nuts, pistachios, and butternuts, among others. Some lesser-known nuts are also edible, such as saba nuts, paradise nuts, pili nuts, baru nuts, mongongo nuts, and more.
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