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Christmas Candy Recipes

Here you will find recipes for Christmas candies, including truffles, candy canes, ribbon candies, and much more.
Perfect Candy Gifts for the Holiday Season
From candy canes to holiday fudge, candy is a traditional part of winter holiday celebrations. These popular Christmas candy recipes are sure to delight your family and friends. So whether you're a fudge fan or a truffle lover, try some of these great seasonal treats.
Christmas Candy Ornaments
A simple sugar candy is used to make festive, beautiful Christmas tree ornaments. These Christmas candy ornaments are a fun craft project, and make a great holiday gift.
Chocolate Salami
This Chocolate Salami recipe produces a beautiful log of chocolate studded with an assortment of dried fruits and nuts. It’s a great way to use up leftover cake or cookie crumbs, and can be customized with any fruits and nuts you like.
Gingerbread Fudge
Gingerbread Fudge is an old-fashioned fudge that packs all the good flavor of gingerbread into small squares of fudge. Molasses, chocolate, vanilla, and lots of spices make this traditional treat extra special.
Sugarplums
Sugarplums are a classic holiday candy popularized in poems and the Nutcracker Ballet. This sugarplum recipe contains different varieties of dried fruit and nuts, along with some preserves and holiday spices.
Hazelnut-Orange Meringues
Hazelnut-Orange Meringues feature a subtle orange flavor and nutty toasted hazelnuts in a light, crispy candy recipe that’s perfect for the holidays. These are even better when dipped in chocolate!
Minty Chocolate Snowballs
Minty Chocolate Snowballs are a fun holiday variation of Oreo Truffles. Chocolate cookie crumbs, cream cheese, and creamy mint candies are combined in these refreshing, addicting Christmas candies.
Rum Balls
Rum balls are a rich, chocolately candy with a sophisticated taste that appeals to adults. This recipe for rum balls can also be used to make bourbon balls.
Fruit and Nut Balls
Fruit and Nut Balls have the perfect balance of rich chocolate, tangy fruit, and crunchy nuts.
Chocolate Peanut Popcorn
Rich chocolate, salty peanuts, and crunchy popcorn combine in this delicious recipe! Chocolate Peanut Popcorn is an absolutely addictive treat.
Chocolate Caramel Popcorn
Chocolate Caramel Popcorn takes golden caramel corn and smothers it with a delicious layer of semi-sweet chocolate.
Caramel Popcorn
This recipe for Caramel Popcorn produces golden popcorn with a crunchy, sweet caramel coating.
Caramel Chex Mix
This recipe for Caramel Chex Mix features cereal, nuts, and pretzels covered with a sweet and crunchy baked caramel coating.
Spiced Nuts
In this recipe for Spiced Nuts, toasted nuts are covered with a light, crunchy coating of spices for an addicting treat.
Fudgy Nuts
Fudgy Nuts are coated with a soft layer of sour cream fudge, resulting in a snack that’s crunchy, smooth, sweet, and tangy.
Caramel Nuts
This Caramel Nuts recipe produces crisp nuts that are coated in a sweet, crunchy layer of caramel.
Cinnamon Hazelnut Toffee
This rich, buttery toffee is studded with toasted hazelnut and scented with cinnamon, then topped with semi-sweet chocolate.
Mint Chocolate Fudge Rounds
This unique fudge recipe features a rich, minty chocolate that is shaped into round slices rolled in pecans.
Ribbon Candy
Ribbon candy is an old-fashioned favorite. This hard candy recipe is a traditional pulled candy that can be colored and flavored in any way you like.
Candy Canes
This recipe for candy canes is a traditional pulled candy, based on a sugar syrup flavored with mint extract. You can always vary the flavoring and colors to customize your candy canes.
How to Make Meringue Mushrooms
This photo tutorial shows you how to make traditional Meringue Mushrooms, the classic accompaniment to the traditional buche de noel, or Christmas yule log cake.
Peppermint Chocolate Spoons
These chocolate-covered spoons are sprinkled with crushed candy canes. They’re delicious when used to stir coffee or hot cocoa, and make a great holiday gift.
Cornflake Wreaths
Cornflake Wreaths are marshmallow and cornflake Christmas candies that taste great, and are simple enough to make with children.
Eggnog Truffle Cups
This recipe for Eggnog Truffle Cups features creamy eggnog-flavored truffle cream in a dark chocolate cup.
Christmas Fudge
This recipe for Christmas fudge is a sweet, traditional fudge recipe studded with red and green candied cherries.
Eggnog Fudge
Holiday eggnog replaces cream in this traditional fudge recipe.
Popcorn Snowman
Sweet and chewy popcorn balls form an adorable candy snowman, perfect for holiday parties!
Reindeer Noses
Reindeer Noses are actually delicious chocolate fudge balls topped with candied cherries and rolled in coconut. These stunning candies are eye-catching and make a perfect holiday party treat.
Orange Snowballs
Orange Snowballs are a beautiful winter candy with a refreshing orange flavor and a coating of shredded coconut.
Gingerbread Truffles
This recipe for Gingerbread Truffles produces soft, aromatic truffles balls that taste like gingerbread cookie dough! These delicious candies feature gingersnaps, spices, toasted nuts, and white chocolate.
Meringue Mushrooms
This Meringue Mushrooms recipe creates miniature candy mushrooms that are a classic accompaniment to the traditional buche de noel, or Christmas yule log cake.
Peppermint Meringues
Candy cane pieces are the secret ingredient in these refreshingly minty holiday meringues.
Spiced Meringues
Spiced Meringues are light, crunchy candies scented with spices and studded with toasted nuts.
Christmas Candy Recipes
Here you will find an index of all Christmas candy recipes.
Candy Cane White Chocolate Fudge
White chocolate fudge is infused with mint and swirled with red stripes to resemble a candy cane.
Candy Cane Truffles
Crunchy candy cane bits coat a smooth, minty, ultra-dark chocolate ganache. The result is an indulgent candy perfect for the holidays.
Marshmallow Snowmen
These cute snowmen are assembled from marshmallows and any other types of candy you choose. Making them is half the fun—and of course, eating them is the other half!
Peppermint bark
Peppermint bark is a Christmas classic. Who can resist dark chocolate, white chocolate, and crisp bites of minty candy canes?
Holiday Popcorn Balls
Popcorn balls in green and red make a stunning holiday presentation.

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