Sugar Plums
This recipe is made decidedly easier by the modern invention of the food processor. If you want to be accurate to the times, feel free to chop all the ingredients into very small bits by hand.
Servings: 24 sugar plums
Calories: 141kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups almonds
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 ½ cups whole dried apricots
- 15 pitted Medjool dates about 1 cup
- Pinch of salt
- Zest of one orange
- Confectioner's sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Spread almonds into a single layer on a cookie sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes or until almonds are roasted and slightly brown.
- Add almonds to the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until chopped into fine pieces, about the size of a match head.
- Add honey, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, apricots, dates and orange zest to the almonds. Pulse until mixture is well chopped and beginning to clump.
- To form sugar plums, pinch off a tablespoon of mixture and roll into a ball. When all sugar plums are formed, dust the top with confectioner's sugar.
Nutrition
Serving: 1sugar plum | Calories: 141kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 0.5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.002g | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 289mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 316IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 48mg | Iron: 1mg
