Making candy at home is a wonderful holiday activity that can become a tradition for any person, family, or group of friends. While we’ve discovered many CandyAddict.com Awesomely Addictive candies, candy you make yourself can often be tastier and more satisfying than anything you can buy in the store.
You probably can’t remember the first time you bought a lollipop or a piece of fudge, but making your own candy at home is something you (and your children, if you have them) will never forget. If you’d like to make some special holiday memories by making candy this New Year’s Day, we at Candy Addict would like to share our 2008 candy recipes with you.
Some of the recipes are holiday-themed, but don’t let that stop you from enjoying them. Either change them around to fit your New Year celebration or celebrate all the year’s holidays at once! Yum!
From the familiar flavors of peanut butter, powdered sugar, and coconut to unusual combinations involving alcohol to the truly weird, Candy Addict has you covered.
Chocolate Covered… WHAT?!
- Chocolate Covered Carmelized Matza Crunch
- Chocolate Covered Honeycomb
- Chocolate Covered Pretzels (Crispies and Peanuts)
The Great Chocolate Experiment – for the truly brave!
- Part 1 – Maybe you’d like to try chocolate covered gummy bears, Skittles, Cheetos Puffs or broccoli?
- Part 2 – Or perhaps you’ll enjoy chocolate covered Raisin Bran, sun-dried tomatoes, bubble gum or garlic?
- Part 3 – Fritos corn chips, ham, pickles, or rice cakes might be good smothered in chocolate…or not…
- Part 4 – How about sweet potato, dried mango, cheddar cheese, or gummy cola bottles dipped in chocolate?
Muffins, Cakes and… Puppy Chow?
- Easter Bunny Cake and Candy Creation – Let Victoria’s post inspire you. Try making a bell for ringing in the new year or a clock. Be creative and have fun. You get to eat whatever you make, no matter what it looks like!
- Mini Cadbury Creme Egg Muffins – You can’t get Cadbury Creme Eggs this time of year, but maybe you can tweak the recipe to make a special breakfast muffin with a mini Reese’s Cup or a Hershey’s Kiss in the middle
- Puppy Chow – also called Reindeer Food, Kibble, or Muddy Buddies
Robby’s Confectionery Creations
- Grand Apple – a baked apple stuffed with nuts, dried fruit, and spices, then covered by a layer of toffee and topped with white chocolate, chopped nuts, and coconut
- Harmony Bar – a blueberry pumpkin cheesecake fudge
- Lost in the Woods Bar – graham crackers layered with a cherry marshmallow filling and coated with dark chocolate with cherry pieces, a unique inverted s’mores created by our own Robby
- Spumoni Mastiff Bark – a dark chocolate cherry almond layer coupled with a white chocolate cranberry pistachio layer
- Vacation Bar – a white fudge bar topped with toasted coconut and filled with pieces of banana, papaya, mango, pineapple, coconut, and macadamia nuts
Candy Classics From Your Kitchen
- Easy Peasy Fudge – both chocolate and peanut butter varieties
- Homemade Lollipops
- Peanut Butter Hard Candy
- Rolo Turtles
- Vanilla Bean Marshmallows for Dummies – You really can make your own marshmallows!
Extra Fun
- Vodka Skittles – Depending on your style, this might be just the recipe for your New Year’s party
- Candy Theory of Relativity – If you’re not up to making homemade candy, experiment with your store-bought candy instead. Cold or warm or in between, you’re in control!
UPDATE: I said in the article that you can’t find Cadbury Creme Eggs this time of year, but I was in CVS yesterday and they had a whole barrel of them. Who knew? I hope they weren’t leftover from last year…
December 31st, 2008 at 11:27 amgreat compilation! i love seeing all the recipes posted over the years. btw… they now sell cadbury eggs for christmas so they could be from that, but easter candy is never too early to go on the shelves in my opinion
December 31st, 2008 at 9:13 pm