Candy Recipes

These chocolate coconut bonbons are actually low-fat and easy to make.

Butter pary mints are like old-fashioned after-dinner mints. Quite easy to make. Great for children.

You must try these easy candied cranberries baked in the oven and flavored with brandy.

This is a great way to preserve fruits, especially figs, apricots, and tomatoes.

Candied flowers make beautiful decorations for desserts and can last up to one year. This job takes a little patience. It seems to go more quickly if you do it with a friend. The following recipe will coat quite a few flowers, but if you need more, mix up a second batch.

This is a very simple fudge recipe using evaporated milk, marshmallows, and chocolate chips that brings raves.

These little heavenly brownie gems have a layer of Chambord jelly amidst an abundance of chocolate and marshmallows.

Chile pepper flakes give an intriguing spiciness to sweet macadamia nut brittle. This is an addictive candy!

The recipe for these delicious chocolate butterscotch candies dates back to the 1940s.

Chocolate Caramel Candy Bars Recipe. If you love brownies and Milky Way candy bars, you'll love these rich bars that start with a chocolate cake mix.

Teach your kids how crystals grow with this edible rock candy recipe.

This interesting candy combines cherries, peanut butter, walnuts, coconut, and chocolate in each bite.

Delicious chocolate truffles are enriched with chestnuts and brandy.

Chocolate Graham Toffee Bark Recipe. These delicious toffee candies start with plain graham crackers and are topped with chocolate and macadamia nuts. Great gift from the kitchen for any occasion.

Bites of heavenly marshmallow atop chocolate cookies, topped with more chocolate and nuts.

This candy is fast and easy. Great for gifts and tasty enough to compete with the gourmet candy store.

These delicious candies have a filling that tastes like peanut butter cups, sitting on top of a pretzel and covered with chocolate.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Cups Recipe. No-bake candies are easy to make and great for gifts.

Chocolate Porcupine Clusters Candy Recipe. These crunchy chocolate candies are easy to create for parties, bake sales, gifts, and Halloween. Be sure to let the kids help.

Chocolate Puppy Chow Recipe. There is something incredibly irrestistible about the combination of chocolate and salty foods.

These are not ring-shaped, but just as tasty.

This version of the classic bourbon balls uses chocolate cookie crumbs for extra rich flavor.

Chocolate-Covered Cherry Mice Recipe. These chocolate-covered cherry mice are fun to make and make a cute presentation for parties, bake sales, and of course, Halloween. Let the kids help by setting up a production line.

Chocolate-Covered Dream Bites Recipe. These rich and delicious brownie bites are gluten-free. The texture is in between brownies and fudge.

Cognac-flavored chocolate truffles are not difficult to make, but they will require a bit of your time.

Macadamia nuts, white chocolate, and rum combine in these truffles that are rolled in coconut.

A bar cookie with a nutty shortbread crust and creamy citrus topping is sure to please all.

This crunchy sesame candy is a favorite for Hanukkah and Rosh Hashanah.

These are all the rage at fairs and festivals. This recipe uses Mounds bars.

One of our members shares this family recipe for a Texas favorite.

Pecans are traditionally used in praline candies. If you use walnuts, they are Northern pralines.

The rich flavor of espresso combines with orange liqueur, hazelnuts, and chocolate to make a fabulous truffle. They make a great gift tucked into a cheery tin, basket or fancy crock. Plan ahead to let these age for 1 week.

Dried figs are stuffed with a variety of sweet fillings. Great for an appetizer or dessert tray at parties.

Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Recipe. These taste similar to the commercial peanut butter cups, but better! Great for gifts.

Marshmallows use simple ingredients and are easier to make than you might think.

Step by step recipe instructions with photos show how to make chocolate-covered cherry mice. Great for children's birthday parties, bake sales, and Halloween.

Traditional walnut chocolate fudge candy gets a boost from Irish Cream liqueur.

Cut these delicious jellied candies into exotic shapes to match the exotic kiwifruit flavor.

Low carb candies are made from macadamia nuts, coconut, and chocolate syrup with no cooking or baking necessary.

Macadamia Almond Brittle Recipe. Make this delicious nutty brittle a couple of days in advance. It tastes even more buttery as it sits.

This candy starts with mashed potatoes and is covered in chocolate.

These light candies are rich with the flavor of maple syrup and pecans.

No-bake candy balls have the flavors of a margarita mixed with vanilla wafers and pretzels.

Chocolate and marshmallows are a match made in heaven. This dessert is a bit lighter in texture than traditional fudge.

Make your own marshmallows with this recipe from popular author and caterer, Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa.

Old-fashioned molasses taffy is easily made at home. Instructions are included for the pulling method.

These rich and tasty little gems use pretzel sticks, cream cheese, and canned cherry pie filling.

Crunchy chocolate bottom, homemade marshmallow center, chocolate topping. Great for gifts.

No-bake chocolate-dripped marshmallow and peanut butter candy mounds get crunch from rice cereal and M&Ms.

Gumdrops are not difficult to make at home, and these begin with orange juice, not artificial flavorings.

Jelly candies are made from fresh fruit. Variations also included for apple-cranberry, pineapple, and raspberry-cranberry versions.

Delicious coated candies are made with chocolate cake, frosting, and peanut butter chips, but taste like truffles.

Peanut Butter Crunch Candy Bars Recipe. Gooey with marshmallows, crunchy with peanut butter and butter cookies, and chocolate is thrown in to boot. Who can resist? No-bake Peanut butter crunch candy bars are easy to make and kids love them.

Try making candy canes at home with this easy recipe.

Homemade peppermint patties will give the commercial ones a run for the money.

Creamy pineapple candy begins with canned crushed pineapple and is loaded with pecans.

Quick and easy vanilla chocolate candies get crunch from crushed potato chips and pecans. It is an intriguing contrast of sweet and salty that really works.

Delicious candy is made from fresh pumpkin and flavored with maple sugar.

Teach your kids how crystals grow with this edible rock candy recipe.

Fresh rose hips are cooked in a sugar syrup, then rolled in sugar for an unusual prize-winning candy.

Easy and sinful perfectly describes this rich fudge candy.

Smashed Bugs Candy Recipe. These crunchy chocolate caramel candies are easy to create for parties, bake sales, gifts, and Halloween. Be sure to let the kids help.

Smores Cups Recipe. Based on the old Girl Scout favorite, these are made with graham cracker crumbs, marshmallows, and chocolate. No-bake Smores candy cups are easy to make and great for gifts.

Enjoy this fudge on your sugar-free or low carb diet.

Almond liqueur enhances the rich almond flavor of these white chocolate truffles.

Dried apricots are stuffed with hazelnuts or pistachios and then dipped in white and semisweet chocolate.

Zebra Marshmallow Cups Recipe. White chocolate, dark chocolate, cookie crumbs, and marshmallows make a black and white layered zebra candy. What's not to love? No-bake zebra candy cups are easy to make and great for gifts.