Candy & Confections

Making Homemade Caramel Corn tossed with cashews and pecans has been a holiday tradition at our house since the early 1990s. I promise, no one can resist this crunchy, sweet and salty treat!

White Chocolate Peppermint Popcorn is sweet, salty, minty, crunchy, and totally addictive! This yummy holiday treat can be made in just 15 minutes with just four ingredients. Vanilla candy coated popcorn is speckled red and green from bits of crushed candy canes and Oreo Mint Creme Chocolate Sandwich Cookies for a festive holiday snack. White …

English Toffee is a buttery, chocolate confection laden with walnuts and broken into bite-size delectable pieces. Butter and sugar are cooked together until it caramelizes, then poured on top of chopped walnuts and smothered with a layer of dark chocolate.

Buckeye Brownie Bites — miniature brownies topped with peanut butter “buckeye” candy balls and drizzled with dark chocolate ganache — are a fun dessert for holiday parties or for sharing at Christmas cookie swaps.

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One of my Dad’s all-time favorite Christmas candies was Old-Fashioned Peanut Brittle. For several years I would make brittle and wrap up a tin for my Dad and my Father-in-Law as a gift on Christmas Eve. The funny thing is that both of them would open the gift, take a sneak peek inside the tin, and …

With only four ingredients, Pecan Candy Cookies take just minutes to mix up and bake. Chock full of pecans, brown sugar meringue bakes into a crispy-on-the-outside, chewy-on-the-inside billowy cookie that literally melts in your mouth.