Blessed Sunday for those who hasn't cross over to 8 April!

My #sublimesunday has ended me cleaning up the room that I have neglected for months due to busy schedule, dizziness and still piled with services.

But the cleaning of the room didn't end with just exhaustion. I found a bag of raw almonds that were sitting in my "trail mix ingredients bag" that was seated aside since Christmas!

Good thing the bugs haven't attacked them as they did for my rolled oats 🥲 to the point I had to just discard it because there's was already a colony inside.

However, kept inside for months isn't a good thing either. I decided to rinse it with filtered water and air fry roasted it for 10 minutes under low heat.

Then I crisp them a bit with 140°C for another 5 minutes, before I decided to coat them with my special low-carb Monk fruit sugar, with a balanced amount of cinnamon, salt and 5-spice herbs.

The biggest challenge is to get them frost covered without losing the cruchiness, which can be daunting, because it depends on the ratio of the sugar + spices with water, making it not over powering sweet with a hint of "cooling effect" because of the cinnamon.

The ration between sugar and water should be almost 1:1. But do know that Monk fruit sugar hardens faster than other types of sugar, so once the mixture has been boiled down to almost half of its original measurement, switch off the heat, and pour in the roasted nuts, quickly roll them around with a spatula and when you see your spatula starts having frosted sugar coating you know the nuts are ready for cooling down.

Monk fruit is a substitute on lower calories side compared to sugar, so it is naturally expensive. But to do it at home knowing the method would save much more because imagine:

1 bag of 35g (0.035 oz) frosted almond cost almost 2 HIVE! AND even with a full bag of 200g (7.05 oz) costing around 4 HIVE with 2.5 tablespoon of Monk fruit sugar is still less than 5 HIVE in total so you can see how affordable this actually is if it is done for the family

I am thinking of adding this into the product to sell later with a cheaper price + lower calorie during the upcoming charity Bazaar for the church's children's home at the 2nd half of the year. The low carb should get everyone's attention 😏

What do you think?

Would you get a bag for similar price but lower carbs during charity ?

Until Then

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