Sugar Candy Recipes
Sugar Candy Recipe Index
Here you will find an index of all sugar and hard candy recipes.
Vanilla Extract
Vanilla Extract is easy to make at home. Once you learn how to make your own vanilla extract, you'll never buy it from the store again!
Popcorn Candy Recipes
This list of popcorn candy recipes will make you pop with excitement. From standards like caramel corn to fun twists like fruity popcorn, you're sure to find a popcorn recipe you love.
Lemonade Sugar Straws
These tangy lemon sugar straws have the sweet-tart taste of lemonade, in a nostalgic Pixy Stix-inspired package.
Lemon Meringue Bites
These Lemon Meringue Bites are made of crunchy, sweet meringue nests filled with tart lemon curd.
Turkish Delight
This Turkish Delight recipe is a traditional version of the classic Middle Eastern sweet. The resulting candy is delicately chewy and scented with rosewater.
Cherry Cheesecake Balls
Cherry Cheesecake Balls are luscious balls of real cheesecake, mixed with fresh cherries and covered with a layer of chocolate.
Crispy Fudge Sandwiches
Crispy Fudge Sandwiches have a soft, fudgy chocolate center surrounded by layers of butterscotch and peanut butter-flavored rice crispy treats.
Cereal Candy Recipes
Cereal isn't just for breakfast anymore! The crunchy, light texture of many breakfast cereals is the perfect addition to many candies. This list of cereal candy recipes uses cereals as varied as rice crispies, cornflakes, and shredded wheat. So next time you want a candy with plenty of flavor and crunch, pull the cereal from your cupboard and...
Chocolate-Covered Cheesecake Squares
Chocolate-Covered Cheesecake Squares are a simple way to enjoy rich, creamy cheesecake in small, portable bites.
Top 10 Butterscotch Candy Recipes
The distinctive taste of caramelized sugar and butter shine in these butterscotch recipes. Some of these recipes feature homemade butterscotch, while others call for butterscotch chips or hard candy. Despite their differences, they're all perfect for the butterscotch lover in your life.
Cookie-Based Candy Recipes
Cookies can be tasty on their own, but they're even better when they're used to create delicious candies. These cookie-based candy recipes range from simple chocolate-dipped cookies to more elaborate truffles and fudges. Whether you prefer cream-filled sandwich cookies, chocolate chip cookies, or gingersnaps, you're sure to find a candy recipe...
Peanut Butter and Jelly Pops
Peanut Butter and Jelly Pops featured doughnuts holes on a stick, stuffed with peanut butter and jelly.
Candied Bacon
This recipe for candied bacon produces a treat that's at once crispy and chewy, sweet and salty, and completely addicting.
Bacon Caramel Popcorn
Bacon Caramel Popcorn features crunchy caramel popcorn studded with toasted pecans and chunks of crispy, salty bacon.
S'mores Treats
S'mores Treats are a fun twist on rice crispy treats! Graham cereal, marshmallows, and plenty of chocolate chips are mixed in these easy bars for a delicious S'mores taste--no campfire required.
Popcorn Pops
It’s popcorn on a stick! Flavorful caramel popcorn is formed into balls and served on a stick for a treat kids of all ages will enjoy.
Red Velvet Cake Truffles
Red Velvet Cake Truffles are simply balls of delicious red velvet cake mixed with real cream cheese frosting. The truffles are then dipped in candy coating, for a moist, sweet, and tangy cake bite in candy form!
Vanilla Sugar
Vsnilla Sugar is an easy recipe that combines vanilla beans and sugar to produce a fragrant, vanilla-flavored sugar perfect for candies and baking.
Inside-Out Peppermint Patties
Inside-Out Peppermint Patties are a fun twist on traditional peppermint patties! A creamy peppermint candy center is filled with rich chocolate ganache in this easy, tasty recipe.
Peanut Butter Cup Popcorn
Peanut Butter Cup Popcorn is crunchy popcorn coated in melted peanut butter chips and studded with chunks of chocolate peanut butter cups.
Cinnamon Bun Popcorn
Cinnamon Bun Popcorn is caramelized with a rich brown sugar-cinnamon coating and is coated with white chocolate and melted cinnamon chips.
Panoramic Sugar Easter Egg
Sugar Easter eggs are a fun Easter craft activity, and the resulting product can be saved and displayed for many years.
Raspberry Lemon Popcorn
Raspberry Lemon Popcorn has a vibrant fruity flavor from freeze-dried raspberries and fresh lemon zest.
Rocky Road Meringues
Rocky Road Meringues have a crispy meringue shell and a rich chocolate center, topped with toasted nuts.
Snickerdoodle Truffles
Snickerdoodle Truffles are made with real snickerdoodle cookies, and rolled in a mixture of crunchy cinnamon-sugar on the outside.
Pretzel Pencils - Back to School Candy Recipe
Pretzel Pencils are a fun back to school candy recipe! Pretzel sticks are covered in candy coating and decorated to look like pencils.
Lemon Sugar
Lemon Sugar is an easy sugar flavored with fresh lemon zest. It's a great baking ingredient and also delicious in tea.
Lavender Sugar
Lavender Sugar is a floral-scented candy and baking sugar made with real dried lavender.
Nutty Divinity
Nutty Divinity combines the sweet, airy marshmallow taste of divinity candy with the crunch of toasted nuts and the delicious flavors of almond and vanilla extract.
Fruity Popcorn
Fruity Popcorn is a popcorn treat featuring salty nuts and popcorn covered in a light, crunchy candy coating bursting with fruit flavor.
Coconut Potato Kisses
Coconut Potato Kisses are a wonderful St. Patrick's Day candy! Use leftover (unseasoned) mashed potatoes to make this coconut-flavored candy.
Potato Pinwheels
Potato Pinwheels are a St. Patrick's Day candy with a surprising ingredient: mashed potatoes!
Sugar Cubes
Sugar Cubes are so easy to make at home! You can dye and flavor the sugar, then use candy molds to form it into fun shapes.
Red Velvet Crispy Treats
If you like regular crispy treats, you'll love this Red Velvet Crispy Treats variation! Drizzled with white chocolate, these crispy squares taste just like red velvet cake batter.
Cookie Dough Bark
Cookie Dough Bark features real chocolate chip cookie dough between two slabs of chocolate.
Cookie Dough Pretzel Sandwiches
Cookie Dough Pretzel Sandwiches are a sweet and salty candy featuring cookie dough between two pretzel thins, dipped in chocolate.
Cake pops, moist bites of cake and frosting on a stick, are all the rage now! Learn how to make cake pops, as well as brownie pops, cheesecake pops, and seasonal cake pop variations.
Mad for maple? Then you'll love this list of maple candy recipes. From maple fudge to maple truffles and everything in between, there's a maple recipe here to suit your sweet tooth.
Candied Flowers
Candied Flowers are beautiful, edible flowers that are coated with a thin layer of egg white and sugar to preserve them. Candied or crystallized flowers add a delicate floral flavor and a beautiful appearance to any dessert.
Copycat Candy Recipes
Make your favorite store-bought recipes at home! These copycat recipes include peppermint patties, fruit chews, tootsie rolls, popular candy bars, and more.
Let them eat cake! In the form of candy, that is. Cakes, brownies, quick breads, and muffins are at the heart of these tempting candy recipes. Put those sweet leftovers to good use making cake pops, brownie truffles, cake-based fudge, and much more.
Cream Cheese Candy Recipes
A list of cream cheese candies, including cream cheese mints, cream cheese truffles, cream cheese fudge, and more.
Snowcaps Chocolate Meringues
Light and crispy chocolate meringues get a delicate dusting of powdered sugar in this recipe for Snowcaps Chocolate Meringues.
Cracker Candy Recipes
List of cracker candy recipes, including saltine toffee, s'mores candies, and matzoh buttercrunch.
Bacon Candy Recipes
Your sweet-and-salty tooth will love these bacon candy recipes, including candied bacon, bacon caramels, chocolate-covered bacon, and more.
Beverage-Inspired Candy Recipes
This list of beverage-inspired candy recipes includes coffee candy, hot chocolate candy, and chocolate malt candy recipes.
Honey Candy Recipes
A list of honey candy recipes, including honey truffles, honey roasted peanuts, honey toffee, and much more.
Lollipop Recipes
A list of lollipop recipes, including sugar lollipops, cake pops, brownie pops, and cheesecake pops.
Cinnamon Candy Recipes
Spice up your life with these cinnamon candy recipes! From truffles to fudge to marshmallows, cinnamon shines in these delicious candy recipes.
Red White and Blue Cake Balls
Red White and Blue Cake Balls are moist bites of cake in a spectacular tri-layered red, white, and blue design.