Candied Nuts

Recipe from Christy Elias. Made these using walnuts for a Strawberry Spinach Salad for Alyssa's graduation party. Although they were good when I ate them plain, something was a little off for me when combined in the salad. I added the optional cinnamon to the recipe, perhaps that was why??? Please note, I received lots of compliments on this salad so perhaps it was just me??? I want to check the ingredients for some other candied nuts recipes and tweak this before making again. I liked how easy the recipe was so I hope I can figure this out!