Vienna almonds Recipe

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Ingredients

125 g Unblanched almonds
250 g caster sugar
80 ml water
3/4 tsp vanilla essence

Preparation

Step 1

Place sugar, water and vanilla into a pan.
Stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved.
Bring to boil and boil gently until mixture just begins to turn brown at the edges.
Add almonds all at once and remove from the heat - stir with a wooden spoon until
the mixture becomes hard and crumbly and the sugar has formed a coating around
the almonds.
Remove almonds from the pan and return the pan to heat until excess sugar in the
Pan has melted
Stir mixture over heat to break up any small lumps and quickly add the almonds to
the redissolved sugar - stir twice and remove from the heat
Stir quickly until almonds are coated with sugar mixture and then spread out onto
a lightly greased baking tray - allow to cool.