Cinnamon and Cointreau Chocolate Almonds

Hello my sweet ladys and gentlemen,

this weekend my husband and I went to a really nice winter market. We had so much delicious food and the best blueberry mulled wine with awesome spices in it. The atmosphere was so nice and I really enjoyed wandering around the streets with all the little market stands, fairy lights all over and the sweet scent of hot wine punch, gingerbread and roasted almonds. It was all so perfectly cozy and magical. I loved it!
And of course we had to get some delicious chocolate covered almonds...but why not try to make some at home? It couldn't be that difficult. So I searched through the internet and read thousands of recipes. Then, I came to a conclusion and created my own personal recipe.
First, I turned on some relaxing Michael Bublé music. Then, I roasted some almonds in Contreau Orange liqueur. After letting them cool, I melted some milk chocolate and added vanilla extract and cinnamon in a pan. After that, I poured the delightfully smelling almonds in the sweet chocolate melt and stirred them in there until they were all completely covered in chocolatey goodness to then, roll them in an awesome composition of powdered sugar and different spices...
Seriously, this is amazing. You can create your own custom made Chocolate Almonds and you can decide what ever flavor you want.
Surely, it makes a little mess but why not dare to try something new and discover the joy of a home that smells like a winter fair itself?

Ingredients: 

500g plain almonds

3 tbs Cointreau Orange liqueur

100g chocolate

pinch of salt

a few drops of vanilla extract

100g powdered sugar 

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp anise

1/2 tsp nutmeg 

Preparation:

Pour all the almonds in a medium sized pan and then, pour the liqueur over them. Now, roast them until they are lightly brown and it smells kind of roasty. Set them aside and let them cool completely. Then, in another pan, melt the chocolate and add the 1 tsp of cinnamon, a pinch of salt and vanilla extract. Now, you are ready to pur the almond in there, remove the pan from the heat and stir until all the almonds are covered completely.
Then, put them one after another on a lined baking tray and let it cool.
Now, yore ready to put powdered sugar, 1 tsp of cinnamon, 1tsp anise and 1/2 tsp of nutmeg in a large bowl and mix it really well together. After that, put all the almonds in there, place a lid on top of the bowl and now shake and swing the bowl around until all the almonds are rolled and covered in the coat of winter flavors.



 Now have some fun and scare the winter blues away! :)