what to make with lots of chocolate covered almonds??

I received a lot of chocolate covered almonds recently- they are roasted and covered with 50% chocolate-- I know 50% is not that dark but it is not milk chocolate, has a dark chocolate taste.
I took a long trip last month and ate far too many of them on planes, trains, and automabiles, and I don't realistically see myself eating another chocolate covered almond again in my life.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could use them to make something else? I have already donated two boxes of them, could donate the rest, but I'd like to find some use as they are at their use-by date and I don't want them to be just thrown away.

Howdy,

I do baking and could see or try and chop fine or so and make pastries. I know I could make almond choc. waffles, muffins, sweet breads,cookies etc. Then also make choc. almond smoothies, or a homemade version of hot almond choc. milk. Make your own trail mix with other bulk ingredients?  

I'll take some...ha ha

randal cranor wrote:hot almond choc. milk.

THIS is why I asked on this forum. A most excellent idea!!! Will be trying that tonight. My vegan kid will be thrilled.

I'm thinking Abuelita (Mexican hot chocolate)-flavored almond biscotti might be a good application too.

I'm not sure of the scale of the problem, but if you've got one of the new *really* powerful blenders, you could add a little extra oil and make chocolate/almond butter - like that hazelnut spread that's all sugar, only you wouldn't be adding any extra sugar, or at least very little.
I have a friend that did it, but when I tried it, my equipment wasn't powerful enough and it never went creamy.

blend them up and they'll make a very nice nutella substitute as well

It's a great idea, but my blender definitely is not up to the job! I have the Omega auger juicer but that will probably make crumbs, not butter. Still, crumbs could make cookies, so I may try the juicer anyway.

randal said, "Make your own trail mix with other bulk ingredients?

This was going to be my suggestion because I love chocolate and raisins. Not so much almonds, as I am not a big fan of almonds.  I use a nutcracker to chop almonds in half. I will eat them then in trail mix.

Before I finally ate the last of the almonds, I was going to ask a similar question.

I thought about making almond bread in the bread machine as it might pulverize them.

I’d also bake with them - use some in a batch of biscotti, chop up some for florentines, make a batch of nougat. I’m envious!

NOUGAT!! Oh yeah, I could put away some nougat.

Or slightly more boring, you could freeze them and then feed them to unsuspecting guests for several years!

Maybe they could be used as a pie crust?

Adapting this oneperhaps?

I've had pie that the crust was from chopped nuts, not flour. Mmmm...

I could definitely picture them chopped up in a variety of cookies, particularly oatmeal cookies.