I don't follow a particular recipe, but I toss about 1 cup of nuts in a fry pan, add maybe 2 T of butter and 1/4 white sugar. Turn heat on medium and start stirring. Constant stirring is necessary! Once the sugar "melts" and turns a caramel color, pour out everything onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Using a pair of forks, and working quickly, separate so you don't end up with one large blob. When I do this, I always end up with a few "excess" blobs of the caramel. I eat those.
But the nuts are all nicely coated. Cool completely. It's super simple. Takes about 5 minutes of heating. I use non-stick fry pan. Works every time. I make them quite often just because it's so ridiculously easy, yet people think they are so "wonderful" that surely it must be something hard to make. If they only knew how easy it was.