How to fix or use up tough candied nuts

Anyone have any ideas for using up leftover candied peanuts?

I messed up a recipe for candying peanuts with coconut milk, cocoa powder, & coffee and ended up getting some tough/hard candy-coated nuts. I used this recipe: https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/candied-peanuts/ , scaled up about 7 times (I got over-excited). I may have overheaped my teaspoons when adding the cocoa/chocolate powders, since there was much more stuff coating the nuts at the end then in the video. The coating also never ended up crystallizing before getting too sticky to stir. The coating cooled into a patchy coating that resembled chocolate in appearance. The nuts are still tasty, but a bit too tough to comfortably eat. The coating isn't sticky itself, but sticks unpleasantly to the teeth when chewing.

I thought about processing them in a food processor and using them as some sort of crunchy topping, but I'm pretty sure they'd turn out too tough given the state of the candy coating.

I have tried adding water to a few and re-boiling them, and the nuts were tender. The liquid was pretty tasty too; kinda like a nutty, caramelly, hot chocolate. So my other ideas were liquid-based recipes like a curry or an African peanut stew. My only worry is that it'd be too sweet if I put more than a couple of nuts.

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