Chocolate Covered Almond Treat
Chocolate covered almonds! We tasted some almonds like these at the grocery store, and decided to try our own recipe and make them happen at home!
I’m going to dive right into this recipe, because you are going to want to make them today! These almonds turned out so delicious! We can’t get enough of them!
Chocolate Covered Almonds Recipe
- 1 pound almonds (raw or roasted, I had a mix of both)
- 1 egg white
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 TBL cocoa powder
- Mix egg white and vanilla with a mixer until frothy. Dump 1 pound of nuts into egg whites and mix until coated.
- In a separate bowl, combine sugar and cocoa powder. Dump sugar and cocoa powder into egg white/almond mixture and stir to combine.
- Pour almonds onto cookie sheet (sprayed with cooking spray). Cook almonds in oven at 250 degrees for 1 hour, Taking out to mix every 15 minutes.
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TJ loved them! In fact, I could barely keep him away from them while I tried to get some photos!
I mixed in some coconut for a little “Almond Joy” Snack.
For a related recipe, check out our Cinnamon Almonds. They also make a great snack and can be incorporated into trail mix as well.
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Chocolate Covered Almonds
Ingredients
- 2 cup almonds, whole
- 1 large egg white
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoon cocoa powder, unsweetened
- 1 none cooking spray
Instructions
- Mix egg white and vanilla with a mixer until frothy. Dump 1 pound of nuts into egg whites and mix until coated.
- In a separate bowl, combine sugar and cocoa powder. Dump sugar and cocoa powder into egg white/almond mixture and stir to combine.
- Pour almonds onto cookie sheet (sprayed with cooking spray). Cook almonds in oven at 250 degrees for 1 hour, taking out to mix every 15 minutes.
Nutrition
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I love love LOVE this idea for a healthy, tasty snack! I’m going to use this for a ladies party I’m having later this week!
You read my mind! Just yesterday I was hoping to find a “Roasted” Almond type recipe. I LOVE candied nuts! Thank you so much!
What a great idea! I’m going to make this for my little sister today.. thanks!
my goodness, I love almonds and these look so yummy! What a fun snack to get the kids involved in the kitchen 🙂
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We recently discovered cocoa almonds – but the store bought ones from Emerald. They are so yummy and have only 1g of sugar, but I think I would love the homemade version even more. Will definitely give it a try soon.
That is exactly why I tried to make these! We bought some of those emerald ones this summer and LOVED them! But, I couldn’t figure out how to do a powdery chocolate like they did, or how to get it to stick to the nuts. Any ideas?
Yum, yum, yum! Can’t wait to give this a try!
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Great recipe. lovely photos. I just love the combo of almonds and “chocolate” – unsweetened cocoa works just fine to me! : )
Could you do this without the sugar? It seems to be lots of sugar. I eat almonds all the time
If you like the taste of dark (like 100% chocolate) that you would like it like that for sure!
.. or you could reduce the sugar. It’s definitely a dessert though, and you still wouldn’t want to eat more than 1 ounce at a time!
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Oh that looks so tempting, thanks for sharing.
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What could you use insted of egg whites?
Thank you Amy for an awesome recipe. We are pure vegetarians, hence can you suggest a replacement for egg in the recipe.
Would love to give this a go, my daughter loves her dark chocolate but could I substitute the egg as we are vegetarian ?? Thanks for sharing, your recipes are very inspiring!
@kara, Kinjal, and Soneshree- Although I’ve never tried it, you could see if a vegan butter would be enough to make the cocoa stick to your almonds.
If you do, please let me know how they turn out as many people want to know!!
3/4 cup granulated sugar??!!
Did I read that right?! That’s a lot of sugar!!! I am really surprised to find that much sugar in a recipe on this website !!
Kathy- I actually have a sugar-free one here: https://www.superhealthykids.com/sugar-free-cinnamon-pecans/
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