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Marshmallow Fondant
Marshmallow Fondant is an easy fondant made of miniature marshmallows, water, and powdered sugar. It’s simple to make, and many prefer the taste over regular fondant.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Chocolate-covered strawberries make an easy and elegant candy dessert.
How to Melt Chocolate
Melting chocolate is essential for many candy recipes. Here you will learn different methods for melting chocolate successfully.
Rock Candy
Rock candy is a simple sugar candy that doubles as a fascinating science experiment.
Basic Fondant
This fondant recipe produces a smooth, sweet candy that can be used as the basis for an endless variety of fondant creams and candies.
Chocolate-Dipped Pretzels
chocolate-dipped pretzels, recipe, how to make, chocolate pretzels
How to Temper Chocolate
How to temper chocolate. Learn the art of chocolate tempering to produce professional-quality chocolates that have a delicious snap, a beautiful shine, and a perfect texture.
Basic Marzipan
Basic Marzipan is a great all-purpose marzipan recipe for dipping in chocolate, using in recipes, or forming figurines.
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.
Fixing Chocolate Mistakes
Chocolate is temperamental and is prone to overheating or seizing if not handled properly. Here's how you can salvage chocolate mistakes.
Lollipops
Lollipops are an old-fashioned sugar candy favorite. This lollipops recipe can be customized with your favorite colors and flavors.
Saltine Toffee
This easy Saltine Toffee recipe uses saltine crackers and a few common ingredients to make an uncommonly good candy that’s sweet, salty, crunchy, and chocolatey.
Easy Almond Paste
Easy Almond Paste is a homemade almond paste recipe that requires just four ingredients and a food processor. After trying this fresh, nutty almond paste, you'll never buy it from a store again.
Candy Apples
Candy Apples feature a layer of crunchy cinnamon hard candy that coats a crisp, tart apple.
Hot Chocolate On A Stick
Hot Chocolate On A Stick produces delicious blocks of chocolate fudge that can be dissolved in hot milk to produce rich, creamy hot chocolate!
Royal Icing
This simple royal icing recipe produces a white, hard icing that can be used to decorate candies, cookies, cakes, and gingerbread houses.
Microwave Fudge
Microwave Fudge is an easy recipe that comes together in a snap. A few ingredients and a microwave are all that's required to make this rich, creamy fudge.
What Is Citric Acid?
What Is Citric Acid? The definition of citric acid, along with candy recipes that use citric acid.
A Guide to Chocolate
All about chocolate! This brief guide to different types of chocolate will familiarize you with some of the most common chocolate varieties.
Uncooked Fondant
This is a quick and easy fondant recipe for making fondant and cream fillings.
Candy Sushi
This candy sushi recipe makes adorable sushi look-alikes from Rice Krispies, gummy worms, and other premade candies.
Honey Roasted Peanuts
This Honey Roasted Peanuts recipe produces golden brown nuts with a deep honey taste, a satisfying crunch, and a kiss of salt.
New Orleans Pralines
Pralines are a New Orleans institution! This praline recipe produces sweet, slightly crumbly brown sugar candies loaded with toasted pecans.
Marzipan
This is a great all-purpose marzipan recipe that comes together quickly and requires just a few ingredients.
Soft Caramels
These soft caramels have a creamy, chewy texture that melts in your mouth and never sticks to your teeth.
How to Make Rock Candy
This photo guide will show you how to make rock candy using step-by-step picture instructions. This rock candy recipe is simple and fun to make with children.
How to Make Superfine Sugar
A quick and easy way to make your own superfine sugar (also known as caster sugar) at home, to use in drink recipes, candy recipes, baking, and more.
Candied Bacon
A candied bacon recipe made with bacon, sugar, cinnamon, and a dash of spice.
How to Make Royal Icing
This is a royal icing recipe and photo tutorial showing step-by-step instructions for making royal icing.
Gummy Worms
Gummy worms are a fun childhood favorite that are easy to make at home. These wriggly worms are flavored with raspberry and orange juice.
Cover A Cake With Fondant
This recipe will teach you how to cover a cake with fondant. Fondant-covered cakes have a smooth, professional look that’s easy to achieve at home with a little practice and patience.
Cake Pop Recipes
A collection of cake pop and brownie pop recipes. Cake pops and brownie pops for holidays and every day occasions.
Toffee Candy Recipes
Here you will find an index of all toffee candy recipes and instructions on how to make toffee.
How to Make Chocolate Curls
A picture guide showing how to make chocolate curls and how to use them to decorate pastries.
How to Make Nougat
This photo tutorial will show you how to make nougat using step-by-step illustrated instructions. The nougat recipe used here produces a chewy, delicately scented sweet confection studded with three kinds of crunchy nuts.
Oreo Truffles
This recipe for oreo truffles calls for only three ingredients. Kids can help roll the balls and coat the candies, and they’ll like the familiar taste of oreos in cookie form.
Turtle Candy
Turtle Candies get their name from their whimsical turtle shape. The combination of toasted pecans, soft caramel and smooth chocolate is impossible to resist.
Candy Temperature Guide
If you don’t have a candy thermometer, you can still make candy from sugar syrups by using the cold-water
How to Make Chocolate Roses
Chocolate Roses are gorgeous, delicious lifelike flowers made out of a candy paste called chocolate plastic. This photo tutorial will give you step-by-step instructions showing how to make chocolate roses.
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!
Candy Recipe Index
Here you will find an index of all candy recipes, organized by candy type and special occasion. Learn how to make homemade candies like fudges, truffles, toffee, and more.
English Toffee
This classic toffee is buttery and rich, and pairs very well with dark chocolate.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Peanut butter cups are a classic candy, and for good reason! Salty, nutty peanut butter and rich, smooth chocolate are the perfect match. Learn how to make peanut butter cups at home and enjoy this beloved treat anytime!
Twix Bars
Homemade Twix Bars have a crunchy cookie base, smooth caramel center, and rich chocolate coating, just like their namesake. But because these homemade Twix are made fresh with good ingredients, I think they taste even better than the original!
Caramel Candy Recipes
Sweet and chewy, caramels are delicious on their own or dipped in chocolate. These caramel recipes range from the most basic caramels to elaborate caramels infused with spices or enrobed in chocolate.
Cream Cheese Mints
Cream Cheese Mints are popular for showers, weddings, and holidays. The bite-sized candies feature a delicious combination of cream cheese and pure peppermint flavoring.
A Guide to Cream
A brief guide to the various types of cream available.
Nougat Candy Recipes
Nougat is an aerated candy made from whipped egg whites and a boiled sugar syrup, much like marshmallows. These nougat recipes range from traditional nougat, weighed down and covered with rice paper, to faster variations that omit some complicated steps.
Candy for Beginners
If you are interested in making candy at home, these tips and instructions will provide all the information you need to get started making delicious sugar and chocolate candies.
Caramel Apples
This recipe for decadent caramel candy apples is quick and easy to make.
Buckeyes
Buckeyes recipe. These peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate get their name from their resemblance to the nut of the buckeye tree.
Homemade Condensed Milk
Sweetened Condensed Milk is easy to make at home! All you need are four ingredients and a blender, and you can make homemade condensed milk in just a few minutes.
How to Make Frosting Roses
This photo tutorial will show you how to make frosting roses out of buttercream or royal icing.
Spun Sugar
Spun Sugar creates a beautiful web of glossy sugar strands that can be used to wrap or top pastries to produce a beautiful, professional appearance.
Chocolate-Dipped Cookies
Dipping cookies in chocolate creates a beautiful, delicious candy that makes a great gift or party snack. This recipe for chocolate-dipped cookies can be used with whatever cookie you like, but I recommend chocolate sandwich cookies or pecan shortbread cookies.
What is Luster Dust?
What is luster dust? A definition of luster dust, along with descriptions of other decorating dusts, how to use luster dust, and recipes calling for luster dust.
Truffle Recipes
Craving silky-smooth chocolate? Try one of these truffle recipes, using milk, dark, or white chocolate.
Making Marshmallow Fondant
Marshmallow Fondant is an easy fondant made of miniature marshmallows, water, and powdered sugar. This photo tutorial demonstrates how to make quick and easy marshmallow fondant.
Candied Citrus Peel
Orange, lemon, or grapefruit peel can be candied to make a deliciously fresh, zesty treat.
Chocolate-Dipped Honeycomb
Crunchy, chewy, and sweet, honeycomb is a fragrant candy with an unusual texture. It’s even better dipped in chocolate!
Brownie Pops
Brownie Pops are fun, playful candies that combine two favorite tastes into one great candy. Brownies and chocolate frosting are mixed and formed into balls that are placed on sticks and dipped in chocolate.
How to Make Frosting Flowers
This photo tutorial demonstrates how to make simple frosting flowers using buttercream or royal icing.
Chocolate Bowls
Chocolate Bowls are a beautiful, delicious way to enjoy dessert! Learn how to make chocolate bowls, then fill them with whipped cream, mousse, or candy.
What is Edible Gold Leaf?
The definition of edible gold leaf, and explanation of how to use edible gold leaf.
Glazed Almonds
Glazed Almonds are crunchy, golden-brown candied almonds. These candied nuts are perfect on pastries, salads, or as part of a candy mix.
How to Make Fondant
This step-by-step photo guide explains how to make homemade fondant, using a basic fondant recipe. The resulting fondant can be used for cream centers, dipped fondant candies, rolled fondant, or poured fondant.
How to Dip Truffles
This step-by-step tutorial explains how to dip truffles and other candy centers in chocolate for beautiful professional results.
Sugar Corkscrews
In this recipe for sugar corkscrews, sugar is cooked until deeply caramelized and then spiraled to form these decorative corkscrew curls. Sugar Corkscrews add beauty and sophistication to any dessert.
How to Make A Paper Cone
Paper Cone photo tutorial. Learn how to make a paper cone, also called a paper cornet, to use for piping frosting and chocolate in cake decorating and candy making.
Almond Paste
Almond Paste is a smooth, sweet candy paste that is used to make marzipan and other candies.
Fudge Recipes
Rich, smooth fudge is a popular candy with seemingly endless variations. These fudge recipes include types of chocolate fudge, white chocolate fudge, and sugar-based fudges that might not even include chocolate. There's a fudge recipe here for everyone!
Chocolate Cups
Chocolate Cups are the perfect way to serve candies, mousses, and ganache in a delicious container. Learn how easy it is to make edible chocolate cups with this recipe.
Glazed Strawberries
Glazed strawberries are fresh berries coated with a shiny candy shell, and they make a gorgeous addition to a fruit platter, fruit tart, or berry cake.
Candied Nut Recipes
Here you'll find a wide range of candied nut recipes, from glazed almonds to honey-roasted peanuts. These candied nuts are perfect party munchies, and they're also great on salads, in baked goods, in trail mix, or in dozens of other recipes. Try one of these candied nut recipes today!
How Chocolate is Made
Have you ever wondered how chocolate is made? This article will explain every step of the chocolate making process, from its roots as the cacao bean to finished chocolate bars.
Basic Marshmallows
These light, fluffy marshmallows are perfect for eating plain or using in any recipe that calls for marshmallows.
How to Handle Nuts
Nuts are a great addition to candy, and it is important to know how to properly skin, chop, roast, and store all types of nuts.
Chocolate Plastic
This recipe for Chocolate Plastic produces a delicious, versatile chocolate paste that can be used to decorate cakes, petit fours, and many other pastries.
Dark Chocolate
The definition of Dark Chocolate - From the Candy Glossary at About.com.
Rolled Fondant
Rolled Fondant is a soft, smooth fondant that handles beautifully and is perfect to use when covering cakes with fondant.
Peppermint Patties
Dark chocolate encloses a creamy minty center in these candies that are reminiscent of York Peppermint Patties.
Tootsie Rolls
This recipe for homemade Tootsie Rolls makes soft, chewy candies with the familiar chocolate taste of Tootsie Rolls.
How to Make Caramels
This photo tutorial will teach you how to make caramels using step-by-step instructions.
Gummy candies
These chewy gummies are incredibly easy to make, and are more flavorful than store-bought gummy candies.
Cheesecake Pops
Cheesecake Pops are delicious balls of real cheesecake, covered in chocolate and served on a lollipop stick. This cheesecake pops recipe is simple but so good.
Halvah
This sesame halvah recipe has tahini and pistachios, to produce a classic Middle Eastern candy.
Praline Recipes
A list of the best praline recipes on the web. Try classic pralines, chocolate pralines, orange pralines, and many more! Watch the video showing how to make pralines and then dive into these great praline recipes.
Wrapping A Cake With Chocolate
This step-by-step photo tutorial will show you how to use transfer sheets to wrap a cake in chocolate and create chocolate cut-outs to decorate the top of your cake.
Deep Fried Candy Bars
Use this deep-fried candy bar recipe to make delicious crispy, gooey, warm deep-fried candy bars. You can use homemade bars, or any brand of store-bought candy bars.
White Chocolate Fudge
This is the only white chocolate fudge recipe you’ll ever need! It doesn’t require special equipment or extended beating, it always sets up, and it’s not too cloyingly sweet.
White Chocolate Truffles
This recipe for silky-smooth White Chocolate Truffles is a great all-purpose recipe to have in your repertoire. Add flavorings and mix-ins to create an endless variety of white chocolate truffles.
Sugar Candy Recipes
Stock up on your sugar and get ready to make these sugar and hard candy recipes! These sugar candies range from rock candy to lollipops to pulled taffy to everything in between.
Traditional Toffee
This traditional toffee recipe is easy, quick, and produces deliciously crunchy, rich toffee.
Caramel Popcorn
This recipe for Caramel Popcorn produces golden popcorn with a crunchy, sweet caramel coating.
Sea Salt Caramels
The combination of smooth, sweet caramel, crunchy salt crystals, and bittersweet chocolate may sound unusual, but it makes these candies impossible to put down.
How to Make Toffee
This photo guide will show you how to make a classic toffee recipe using step-by-step photo illustrations.
How to Make Marshmallows
This photo tutorial will show you how to make marshmallows using step-by-step illustrated instructions. The marshmallow recipe used here produces light, fluffy marshmallows lightly scented with vanilla, but you can use any other flavors you desire.
Chocolate Transfer Sheets
This step-by-step photo tutorial will teach the basics of working with chocolate transfer sheets, and will show you how to use chocolate transfer sheets to decorate cakes, cupcakes, and dipped cookies or candy.
How to Make Powdered Sugar
How to make powdered sugar at home. Next time you run out of powdered sugar in the middle of the recipe, don't run to the store! Instead use this quick and easy method for making homemade powdered sugar.
Sweet and Spicy Candied Pecans
This recipe for Sweet and Spicy Candied Pecans is a wonderful all-purpose candied nut recipe. The pecans, which have a crunchy mahogany coating of sugar and spice, can be used in candies and desserts, or are equally good when topping salads or savory dishes.
Almond Delights
Chewy coconut is topped with whole toasted almonds and covered in chocolate, just like your favorite candy bar.
How to Make Candy Sushi
This candy sushi recipe makes adorable sushi look-alikes from Rice Krispies, gummy worms, and other premade candies. This photo guide with step-by-step instructions will show you how to make perfect candy sushi.
How to Make Spun Sugar
This photo guide shows how to make spun sugar. Spun Sugar creates a beautiful web of glossy sugar strands that can be used to decorate pastries.
Chocolate Caramel Apples
Crisp apples are covered with a layer of caramel, a layer of chocolate, and a coating of chopped candy bars.
Chocolate Coconut Haystacks
Who knew two simple ingredients could be so good together? Toasted chocolate and coconut are a match made in heaven in this quick and easy drop candy.
Orange Creamsicle Fudge
Orange Creamsicle Fudge features swirls of sweet white chocolate fudge mixed with bright, fragrant orange-flavored fudge.
Microwave Candy Recipes
These microwave candy recipes and quick and easy, and require only a microwave from start to finish!
Can I Fix My Fudge?
Can I Fix my Undercooked, Overcooked, or Grainy Fudge?
Peanut Butter Fudge
Peanut butter is the star ingredient in this easy chocolate-free fudge.
Inside-Out Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
Inside-Out Chocolate-Covered Strawberries are fresh strawberries filled with a rich chocolate truffle mixture.
Sugar-Free Powdered Sugar Replacement
How to make sugar-free powdered sugar. It's quick and easy to use Splenda sugar replacer to make a sugar-free powdered sugar replacement, for use in candy recipes.
Peppermint Bark
Peppermint bark is a Christmas classic. Who can resist dark chocolate, white chocolate, and crisp bites of minty candy canes? Learn how easy it is to make peppermint bark for Christmas.
Peanut Butter Balls
These smooth candies are rich with cream cheese and peanut butter, and covered in a layer of decadent chocolate.
Snackers Candy Bars
This candy bar recipe features a layer of peanut caramel on top of a light peanut nougat, all enrobed in delicious chocolate. Their flavor closely resembles Snickers candy bars.
Cake Batter Fudge
Cake Batter Fudge is a smooth, creamy fudge with the unmistakable flavor of cake batter!
How to Store Chocolate
Chocolate will keep for months if stored properly. Here you will learn how to store chocolate to ensure its quality.
How to Make Fudge
This photo tutorial will give you step-by-step illustrations showing how to make old-fashioned fudge. This chocolate fudge recipe produces a rich, sweet fudge studded with nuts.
Chocolate Bark Recipes
A list of chocolate bark candy recipes, including peppermint bark, toffee bark, and many fruit and nut bark reicpes.
Why Did My Butter Separate?
Why did the butter separate from my toffee or caramel? This article answers the question of why butter sometimes separates when making toffee or caramel.
Chocolate-Covered Cherries
Chocolate-Covered Cherries are a classic candy recipe! Juicy cherries, sweet fondant and dark chocolate combine in this beloved dessert.
Chocolate-Covered Bacon
An easy recipe for Chocolate-Covered Bacon, calling for bacon, chocolate, and sea salt or other toppings.
How to Make Molded Chocolate Candies
Learn how to make molded chocolate candy with this photo tutorial. These step-by-step instructions will show you how to make molded chocolate truffles just like the professionals!
Candy Bar Recipes
A list of homemade candy bar recipes. These homemade candy bars are fresh, delicious, and make amazing gifts. Try making your own candy bars today!
How to Flavor Chocolate
Chocolate pairs well with a wide variety of flavors. Here you will find how to flavor chocolate with extracts and oil-based flavorings.
How to Make Chocolate Cups
Learn how to make edible chocolate cups with this step-by-step chocolate cups photo tutorial.
How to Make Truffles
This photo guide will show you how to make truffles with step-by-step picture illustrations. This dark chocolate truffle recipe is easy to make but tastes sinfully delicious.
Caramel Nuts
This Caramel Nuts recipe produces crisp nuts that are coated in a sweet, crunchy layer of caramel.
Banana Split Truffles
Banana Split Truffles are banana-flavored white chocolate truffles decorated to look like a tiny scoop of ice cream! These truffles are as tasty as they are adorable.
Creamy Caramels
Rich and chewy golden caramels are so easy to make, you'll wonder why you ever suffered from rock-hard store-bought caramels.
Almond Buttercrunch
Homemade Almond Buttercrunch candy is even better than the store-bought version! A rich toffee made with brown sugar and butter is studded with toasted almonds, then dipped in chocolate and rolled in more nuts.
Chocolate-Dipped Marshmallows
Marshmallows are even better when dipped in chocolate! Use purchased or homemade marshmallows for the quick and easy treat.
Soft-Ball Stage
The definition of Soft-Ball Stage - From the Candy Glossary at About.com.
Ganache
The definition of Ganache - From the Candy Glossary at About.com.
Chocolate Roses
Chocolate Roses are gorgeous, delicious lifelike flowers made out of a modeling material called chocolate plastic.
How to Pull Taffy
A step-by-step illustrated guide to pulling taffy candy, beginning from a cooked sugar syrup and ending with beautiful pieces of taffy candy.
Sour Gummies
These mouth-puckering gummy candies can be made in any flavor you desire. Roll them in sugar to take the edge off their sourness.
Cheesecake-Stuffed Strawberries
Cheesecake-Stuffed Strawberries are fresh strawberries stuffed with a cheesecake mixture and topped with graham crackers.
Chocolate Raspberry Truffles
Deep chocolate and luscious raspberries are paired in this delicious chocolate raspberry truffle recipe.
How to Make Ghost Cake Pops
Learn how to make ghost cake pops for Halloween with this photo tutorial. Ghost cake pops are a great Halloween candy, perfect for parties and gifts.
Fondant Pearls
Fondant Pearls add a beautiful decorative touch to any cake or pastry. Fondant is rolled into balls and dusted with luster dust to make realistic, glimmering edible pearls.
Coconut Candy Recipes
Delicious coconut candy recipes for every occasion. Coconut bonbons, coconut patties, coconut fudge, coconut truffles and more.
Glycerin
The definition of Glycerin - from the Candy Glossary at About.com.
Chocolate Candy Recipes
Chocolate is unique in that it can be both a fundamental ingredient and a finished candy by itself. These chocolate candy recipes range from dense fudges and silky truffles to simple candies like chocolate barks and chocolate clusters. Whether you prefer dark, milk, or white chocolate, you're sure to find a chocolate recipe here to tempt you.
Cookies and Cream Bark
Cookies and Cream Bark is a white chocolate bark candy packed with crushed Oreo cookies.
Bubble Sugar
Bubble sugar is an easy cooked sugar decoration that adds a beautiful touch to cakes, cupcakes, and pastries.
Almond Honey Nougat
This recipe for Almond Honey Nougat produces a chewy, sweet confection studded with three kinds of crunchy nuts and scented with delicate extracts and orange blossom water.
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.
Fondant and Cream Candies
Fondant is a candy paste that's used for molding figures, covering cakes, and making cream fillings. These fondant recipe range from basic fondants that are perfect for rolling on top of cakes to flavored fondants like raspberry, apricot, and peanut fondant. Learn how to make fondant with these fondant recipes.
Pralines
Brown sugar, cream and pecans combine to produce delicious pralines that taste like pecan pie.

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