Spicy Smoked Tea-Pecan Crisps

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Lapsang Souchong beverage bags oregon escaped leaves are not staples successful astir pantries, but you’ll beryllium handsomely rewarded if you acquisition immoderate to marque these antithetic cocktail munchies.

Though the smoky beverage scent mightiness look overly beardown initially, it imparts a distinctive, highly appealing character. This look was inspired by 1 from beverage adept Laurie Bell of Great Falls Tea Garden.

Packed airtight, the crisps volition support for 10 days astatine country somesthesia oregon up to 6 weeks successful the freezer.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 64 pieces

3 cups (about 12 ounces) chopped pecans
1/2 cupful granulated sugar
3 tablespoons Lapsang Souchong adust beverage leaves (from astir 8 beverage bags; spot headnote)
Scant 1 spoon smoked oversea salt, positive 1/4 spoon much for garnish
1 spoon crushed cinnamon
1 spoon crushed allspice
Generous 1/4 spoon crushed cayenne pepper
1 1/4 cups flour, positive much arsenic needed
1 1/2 tablespoons safflower lipid oregon different neutral rootlike oil
2 ample eggs, 1 of them separated into yolk and white
2 tablespoons positive a fewer much teaspoons water, oregon arsenic needed
3 tablespoons coarse, translucent sweetener crystals oregon turbinado sugar, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per piece

Calories
60
Fat
4 g
Carbohydrates
5 g
Sodium
35 mg
Cholesterol
5 mg
Sugar
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Tested by Nancy Baggett and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published December 2, 2014

Updated March 15, 2026