If you are in a pinch for time to pull off a beautiful salad for dinner and want AMAZING quick and easy candied pecans in less than 10 minutes, you have found the only recipe you will ever need! No oven toasting required, just a pan on the stove.  I found and tweaked a recipe for these when I wanted to make a salad I knew my hubby would like…which means lots of goodies including something sweet like candied pecans.  It took an ok salad he would normally have gulped down dutifully, “to be healthy”…(we all do that with salad at times right?) and turned it into a gourmet starter that he LOVED! Here goes the recipe and easy 3 steps to make it!

Quick and Easy Candied Pecans

Ingredients: 

2 cups Pecan halves

1/4 cup Brown Sugar

1/4 cup Butter

2 Tbsp Heavy Whipping Cream

Salt sprinkled at the end optional

 

 

Directions:

In a pan, melt the butter on med to med high heat and pour in pecans.

Step 1:

 

Step 2:

Add brown sugar and heavy whipping cream.  Stir to mix over the pecans.  Keep stirring/scraping the bottom to make sure all of the mixture gets hot from touching the bottom of the pan. You have to cook long enough that it starts to stick to the pecans, and can test by taking out a piece and letting it cool just a bit.  If you don’t cook them at least 5 minutes they will taste amazing but be more sticky.  You want to go for a few minutes longer to get that caramel popcorn type coating that is dryer and a tad crunchy.

 

Step 3:

Sprinkle with salt for the perfect taste combo, and then spread to some wax paper to cool. And then EAT!! Warning…I would double this batch…these are seriously too good not to snack on.  Sometimes I try hiding them, you know, out of sight out of mind… 😉

 

 

I would love to know how these turned out and if you tweak anything how that tasted, such as adding cinnamon! Leave a comment with your favorite salad topper!