Ainsley’s Sweet Spicy Nuts and Mulled Cider - Ainsley Harriott

Ingredients

• For the Sweet Spicy Nuts
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp mixed spice
• ½ tsp cayenne pepper
• ½ tsp sea salt
• 100g cashews
• 100g almonds
• 100g peanuts
• 100g pecans
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 2 tbsp honey
• 1 tbsp water
• For the Mulled Cider (serves 4)
• 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
• 3 star anise
• 3 whole cloves
• 2 tbsp light brown sugar
• pared zest and juice of 1 orange
• 2 x 330 ml bottles dry cider
• good splash of calvados or brandy
• fresh nutmeg, for grating