1 cups shelled walnuts
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
pinch salt
1 and 1/3 tbsp milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 and lay walnuts on a baking sheet (with parchment paper) and bake for 8 minutes. Remove walnuts from the oven and set rimmed sheetpan aside.
In a saucepan, add granulated white sugar, ground cinnamon, salt, milk and vanilla extract. Heat mixture over medium heat stirring constantly until edges begin to bubble/boil in the saucepan.
Reduce heat to low and continue to heat and stir constantly for 6-8 minutes. Sugar must be fully heated low and slow. Be careful as sugar can be REALLY hot.
Carefully fold parchment paper like a funnel (see video) and slowly add walnuts to saucepan and mix well (spatula works great) to evenly coat nuts.
Pour candied walnuts onto a parchment covered baking sheet to cool.
Depending on the humidity in your home, cooling could take as little as a half hour or a few hours.
Once Candied walnuts are mostly dry, put them in a zip lock bag and put in the fridge to finish cooling and drying.
Before eating, gently break walnuts apart once cool.
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