Nutorious Gourmet Nuts

by Nicole Weston, Posted Jan 25th 2007 @ 7:29PM

To be completely honest, I am not usually impressed too much by nuts, even those coated in sugar and spices. I can easily make my own. So with this in mind, it was a complete surprise to me that I liked the Nutorious Nuts I sampled at the Fancy Foods Show so much.

Nutorious Gourmet Nuts started out as an old family recipe. Deliciously flavored nuts were passed out as holiday gifts to family and friends until their popularity finally pushed the nut-makers into the business world. Using only nuts and a few ingredients, like butter, sugar and spices, every batch of nuts is handmade in one of several delicious flavors that are crazily addictive:

Oooo La La Original - classic buttery sweet combination
Cha Cha Chipotle - savory and a little spicy, an updated bar snack
Door County Cherry Vanilla Crunch (my favorite!)- a sweet nut mix with the addition of some dried cherries coated in the same sugar crust
Cranberry Orange Crunch - nuts mixed with cranberries and tossed in an orangey sugar coating
Chocolate Coconutty (updated!) - amazingly addictive, with chocolate and toasty coconut.

Now, the reasons that Nutorious Nuts are so good include the generous amount of butter used, the bold flavors and the fact that they use a mix of nuts - walnuts, almonds and pecans - to provided added dimension that no other nut mixes really offer. They're definitely worth a try unless you're keen to experiment in your own kitchen until you come up with something similar!

Sample sizes don't always provide enough material to get the best pictures, but fortunately the Nutorioius website had a great food porn shot of the Door Country Cherry Vanilla, my favorite flavor, to give you an idea of what the mix looks like: