Decadent ESPRESSO CASHEW CLUSTERS using just 4 simple ingredients! These clusters are filled with caramel and covered with an espresso flavored dark chocolate! A holiday treat you’ll want to eat all year round!
Are they decorating for Christmas by your house?
In the area of town we live, the city puts up Christmas decorations all over. Garlands on the poles, wreaths that light up, decorated fake Christmas trees. Basically the works. By us, they have been doing this for about 2 weeks now. They probably started right after the last candy of Halloween was handed out!
Last night they had the annual Christmas tree lighting, in a place called Market Street. It’s a big festivity for the kids. They have a band that plays Christmas music, elves that are on stilts handing out candy canes, hot chocolate, apple cider, fake snow … all culminating in the lighting of a 40 foot Christmas tree that has lights synchronized to the tune of certain songs.
After the tree is commissioned it will continue to play it’s light show to the tune of music every 30 minutes until Christmas.
So …. I love Christmas and all. We even went to the tree lighting last night. But ya’ll, it is not even Thanksgiving yet?! I feel like every year they move the Christmas festivities up another week. Pretty soon we’ll be starting Christmas in September!
I figured since Christmas stuff is already going down. Why not start with the Christmas treats?
Seems reasonable right? You like chocolate right?
How about I start out slow. No glittery Christmas trees, just C H O C O L A T E and C A R A M E L. One of my favorite combinations … it takes a close second behind Chocolate and Mint. 🙂 (that’s coming next week)
These ESPRESSO CASHEW CLUSTERS are one of the easiest treats you’ll make all year. Just 4 simple ingredients, no baking, and finished in 20 minutes!
All you do is form little piles of cashews, melt down some caramel, top each pile of cashews with a dollop of caramel and then dunk those clusters in melted dark chocolate filled with fresh ground espresso! I topped mine with sea salt for an extra punch!
Ya’ll I guarantee you will swoon of these bad boys!
It’s a great Christmas treat even the kids can help with … or in my case my mom and Cason! 🙂
I will warn you though. These will be devoured in minutes. So … if you’re like me and addicted to dessert, you might want to hide a few to munch on late at night.
Just saying. 🙂
Alright friends! I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Bon Appetit!
Espresso Cashew Clusters
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Yield: 20 clusters 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Chilled
- Cuisine: American
Description
These clusters are filled with gooey caramel and covered with a rich espresso-flavored dark chocolate!
Ingredients
- 1 cup of whole cashews
- 8 oz. soft chewy caramels
- 14 oz. dark melting chocolate wafers
- 1 1/2 tablespoon ground espresso
- sea salt to garnish
Instructions
- Place parchment paper on a baking sheet.
- Form 20 stacks with of 5-7 cashews in each, piled up.
- Unwrap caramels and place in a microwave safe bowl. Place in microwave and melt in 30 second increments until melted and smooth. Stirring the entire time.
- Once the caramel is smooth. Add a scoop of caramel to each pile of cashews. Try to make sure that the caramel touches each of the cashews in the pile so it holds together.
- When finished with the caramel, put them in the refrigerator for 5-10 minutes so the caramel hardens.
- Add melting wafers to a medium sized microwave safe bowl. Melt chocolate in 30 seconds increments, stirring throughout. Once the chocolate is melted, add espresso to the chocolate and stir to combine.
- Add the cashew clusters to the bowl of chocolate and completely coat. (I used two spoons to do this).
- Place chocolate covered clusters back on parchment paper lined baking sheet.
- {Optional} sprinkle with sea salt
- Place in refrigerator to harden up.
- Devour!
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22 comments on “Espresso Cashew Clusters”
These look devine! Do.i need to keep it in the fridge?
Thanks Jana. And no you don’t need to keep them in the frig. Just until they harden then you can keep them out. 🙂
These are like the queen of all nut clusters. Espresso and cashews and chocolate and sea salt, I mean, what more can a girl ask for!? Totally drooling over the photos alone!
haha… I know right! I could slather that espresso chocolate all over me! Sooo good!
Should this be instant espresso powder? Won’t the grinds give an off putting texting or taste?
Nope! I purchased it already ground and it is extremely fine so you see the specks of espresso but don’t get the texture 🙂
These look insanely delicious! And I love the addition of espresso – yum!
Thanks Laura, the espresso in these is awesome!
These sound amazing! I can’t turn down anything with espresso in it!
haha.. I’m with ya!
Swooning already! I KNEW there was a reason I picked up 30 pounds of Guittard chocolate last week – cashew clusters, here I come! 🙂
haha… yup. That chocolate and these recipe were meant to be friends!
No one has decorated by my house yet, but they lit the big tree downtown! It’s about time to start decorating!!
Agreed! We usually start the day after Thanksgiving.
Oh my! If I made these I do not think I would every stop eating them!
Agreed… and I haven’t. hehe
These little clusters look like chocolate caramel perfection!
Amen to that!
I am all about these! Love anything espresso and chocolate. Bonus points if it’s candy. 🙂
hahah… I think we need to be friends!
Oh these look so incredibly delicious!!
Thank you so much Amanda!