Roasted Chestnuts are a classic winter treat and this recipe adds a sweet spiced sauce to top it all off. Oven roasted chestnuts with buttery cinnamon topping is so simple to make as scent of toasted ...

• Roasting nuts in the oven is the most consistent method and yields the best flavor, but requires a careful eye. Be sure to evenly chop your nuts and don’t include the “dust,” which can burn quickly.

Protein-rich and portable, nuts have always been the utility players of the snack world — good for that mid-afternoon energy dip, but generally not the kind of thing to make the crowd go wild. But ...