Cinnamon & Sugar Roasted Pecans Recipe
These Cinnamon & Sugar Roasted Pecans are the perfect snack, and are just like the ones you can find at Cabela’s during the holidays! You only need a few simple ingredients to make these addicting pecans, and they will make your house smell amazing, too.
Have you ever been to Cabela’s or Bass Pro Shop around the holidays? I
f so, you must be familiar with the absolutely divine smell of roasted pecans that seems to waft through all the aisles of fishing poles and camping gear.
It’s like heaven on earth for my husband to peruse those aisles, while it’s heaven for me to sit and nosh on a paper cone full of those delicious nuts and watch the catfish swimming in the giant fish tanks.
Well now you can make your own delicious roasted pecans at home, and mixing them up is a very easy process.
These are perfect for gift giving at the holidays and for snacking on year round. Get ready for amazing smells coming your way!
Ingredients for Cinnamon and Sugar Roasted Pecans
egg white / water /pecan halves
cinnamon / granulated sugar / salt
How to make Cinnamon and Sugar Roasted Pecans – Step by Step
- Preheat oven to 225 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking pan with a silicone baking mat, or grease with cooking spray. Combine the egg white and water in a mixing bowl; beat with a whisk until frothy.
- Fold in the pecans to coat evenly.
- Combine the sugar, salt, and ground cinnamon in a container with a lid and shake to mix. Pour over the pecans and stir to coat pecans evenly.
- Spread the nuts over the prepared pan.
- Bake in preheated oven until toasted and fragrant, stirring every 15 minutes, for about 1 hour.
- Cool on pan, and store in an airtight container. Enjoy!
Tips and Notes
- Substitutions: If pecans aren’t your thing, you could just replace them with whatever your favorite nut is! I’ve made these with almonds many times before, also.
- Serving idea: These make a yummy snack on their own, but are also make a delicious addition to a salad.
- Line your baking pan: for easier removal and clean up, line your pan with parchment paper.
- How to store: place the cooled roasted pecans in an airtight container and store at room temperature for up to 1 week.
More Holiday Treats
- The Best Chocolate Pecan Pie
- Christmas Cookie Bark
- Cranberry Bliss Bar Cookies
- Gingerbread Pudding Cake
Cinnamon & Sugar Roasted Pecans
Ingredients
- 1 egg white
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 1/4 cups pecan halves
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 225 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking pan with a silpat, or grease with cooking spray.
- Combine the egg white and water in a mixing bowl; beat with a whisk until frothy. Fold in the pecans to coat evenly.
- Combine the sugar, salt, and ground cinnamon in a container with a lid and shake to mix. Pour over the pecans and stir to coat pecans evenly. Spread the nuts over the prepared pan.
- Bake in preheated oven until toasted and fragrant, stirring every 15 minutes, for about 1 hour. Cool on pan, and store in an airtight container.
Notes
- Substitutions: If pecans aren't your thing, you could just replace them with whatever your favorite nut is! I've made these with almonds many times before, also.
- Serving idea: These make a yummy snack on their own, but are also make a delicious addition to a salad.
- Line your baking pan: for easier removal and clean up, line your pan with parchment paper.
- How to store: place the cooled nuts in an airtight container and store at room temperature for up to 1 week.
What quantity of pecans do you use?
It’s 2 1/4 cups pecan halves.
Absolutely wonderful! So crunchy and wonderful! I used vanilla extract instead of water, but everything else I did the exact way of the recipe. They were perfect!
Can the air fryer be used instead of the oven?
I haven’t tried these in the air fryer before, so I can’t attest to how they would turn out (or the temp/time ratio.) If you give it a shot, let me know how it turns out!
I literally can’t keep my hands out the pecan jar lol. So easy and good. Keeping this in my collection.
I have made this recipe several times and given away to friends and family and everybody loves and they taste so good!
These turned out really tasty. I think adding vanilla extract and butter flavoring to the nuts before baking will take them from good to great. Never hurts to experiment. At least the ingredients for these are cost effective, leaving room for trial and error without destroying the grocery budget. Thanks for the recipe!
We loved them. Made them this evening and they are already gone. We like that they are softer than those we get from the Ren Faires. Very easy to make.
These are freakin’ delicious!!! My husband and son ate the entire batch in a few hours.
I roasted them about 5 extra minutes from the recommended cook time, but ovens may vary so they might be perfect to cook them for 1 hour as recommended in someone else’s oven!
Perfect no fuss recipe without adding extra fat
I had some pecans and cinnamon, so I said I’ll do this. Open up refrigerator and had no eggs. We substituted 1/2 teaspoon of mayo. Boom they were great
They were so good! I was about to make another batch, but saw that I’m out of eggs. What can you use in place of an egg white that won’t change the taste or texture?
Hi Sandy, so glad you enjoyed these! Unfortunately I don’t have a good substitute for the egg white. I’m sorry!
Thank you for answering so quickly. I have eggs now!
I’m about to make a good many of these for gifts and have one more question… I just bought a big jar of raw honey and was wondering if I could successfully sub honey for the sugar and if so how much? If it would change the texture and crunchiness of these then I wouldn’t want to do it.
Hi Sandy! I have never tried making this recipe with honey before so I’m not sure how it would turn out. I do think it would change the texture by using honey. If you try it, let me know how it turns out.
These are so good! I make them as one of my holiday treats!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!❤️🤎❤️🤎❤️🤎❤️🤎❤️🤎
This recipe was so easy to make, and they came out AWESOME. I’ve already added this recipe to my list of repeats.
Is it ok to use carton egg whites?
Yes that’s fine!
I tried this recipe and I give it six stairs.
In the oven for the 1st time of making them. Awesome aroma! I know they will taste wonderful. They did before cooking. These are going to big family Thanksgiving. I doubt any will be coming home.
We stopped at a new fangled “car stop” and I came across the cinnamon roasted pecans… yummy and PRICEY!
Got home and looked up a recipe! This one is awesome, my family loved these pecan treats!