Valentine's Treats Part Tres

I am determined to get all the Valentine's goodies done before Thursday eve...the night before my kids Valentines parties at school.  We had a SU Stamp Club meeting this afternoon and my demonstrator had us make cute little treat holders that looked like the "old" style sour cream holders.  Those of you who have been around as long as I have may remember the "old" sour cream holders.  You young ones missed out.  Anyway...I made some homemade cinnamon sugared almonds and placed them into these cute containers added a few embellishments and ribbon and presto......cute and simple Valentine's gifts.

The recipe for the Cinnamon Sugared Almonds is pretty simple:

1 - egg white
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder
1 teaspoon of water
1 teaspoon of salt
2.5 cups of almonds

Preheat oven to 250 degrees.

In a large bowl mix the egg white until you get peaks (with a hand mixer this takes approx. 6 minutes)
Once you have formed peaks add vanilla extract and water.  Mix again to form sturdy peaks.  Gently fold the almonds into the mixture....making sure that each almond is coated with the mixture.

In a separate bowl mix the brown sugar, cinnamon and salt.  Mix these three ingredients thoroughly.  Pour the sugar mixture into the bowl of almonds.  Make sure that all the almonds are covered with the sugar mixture.

Place parchment paper on a cookie sheet and spread the almonds on the cookie sheet.  Place in the oven for 1 hour....make sure to check and stir the almonds every 15 minutes.  When you are able to pick up the almond without it sticking to your fingers and the coating is hard then your almonds are done.  Let them cool before packaging.


Sour Cream Style Treat Holder

You can find a video on how to make the treat holders at:  http://cricutmethat.blogspot.com/2010/09/sour-cream-treat-holders.html

This is what the finished product will look like.

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