50+ Easy Christmas Candy Recipes including chocolates, fudge, truffles, caramels, nuts and more as gifts or part of your holiday traditions.
Christmas baking isn’t all about the cookies (we often think it should be) or the pies. Enter the candy! We’ve compiled a list of easy homemade candy recipes you’ll want to add into your holiday dessert recipe rotation!
CHRISTMAS CANDY TIPS:
- Keep candy in a cool, dry place – moisture and heat will cause candy to stick to each other. A cool, dark closet with the items off the ground on a small table is best.
- Keep the pieces separated by a layer or wax or parchment paper to keep them from sticking while you store them as you bake and prepare for gift giving.
- Use an airtight container when possible to prevent candy from going stale.
- Boxing up Candy: Box up gifts at the last minute as most boxes are not airtight if using cardboard.
- Metal Tins: Tins will allow you to box up gifts ahead of time – check out craft stores after the holidays to stock up for next year at a discount!
- Fun gift idea – if you make the recipes add a card to the gift (hole punch and add to the ribbon) with a picture and link to the recipes so the gift receiver can make the candy again.
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Pretzel Turtles are a sweet and salty caramel treat that's incredibly EASY to make in just a few minutes with only 3 ingredients!
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Peanut Brittle is the PERFECT party dessert, made with butter, peanuts, and corn syrup, it's sweet, crunchy, and ready in under 60 minutes!
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Saltine Cracker Toffee, aka Christmas Crack, is the perfect gift made with saltines, brown sugar, butter and chocolate chips in minutes.
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Chocolate Fudge is a rich and indulgent take on an old-fashioned recipe, is no-bake, and only takes 3 ingredients that you already have in your pantry!
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Mixed Nut Clusters are the perfect sweet and nutty treat packed with walnuts, cashews, pecans, and almonds. Easily made in just a few minutes!
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Peppermint Bark is sweet layers of dark and white chocolate topped with crushed peppermint candies. EASY to make and no baking!
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Easy Buckeye Balls are peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate. They're a no-bake candy treat with only 6 ingredients! Check it out!
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Cream Cheese Mints are buttery, melt-in-your-mouth candies full of peppermint, cream cheese, and powdered sugar. Easily made in minutes for holidays!
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Rum Balls are an easy chocolate candy with rum, cocoa, pecans and cookies you can make and decorate in just minutes. Perfect for gifts or easy dinner parties!
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Oreo Balls (aka Oreo Truffles) made with only FOUR ingredients are a sweet and indulgent no-bake recipe that's ready in under 45 minutes!
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Christmas White Chocolate Trash Snack Mix
Christmas White Chocolate Trash Snack Mix combines pretzels, cereal, peanuts and chocolate coated candies with a coating of white chocolate.
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Chocolate Covered Oreos are sandwich cookies smothered in chocolate and hardened into the PERFECT combo of sweet and crunchy. They're incredibly easy to make and a great holiday treat!
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Cookie Dough Truffles made with edible chocolate chip cookie dough full of mini semi-sweet chocolate chips and dipped in chocolate with sprinkles, the perfect sweet bite!
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Rocky Road Fudge made with just 6 ingredients including milk chocolate, walnuts, chocolate chips and marshmallows takes just 10 minutes.
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Chocolate Covered Caramels are soft, chewy, and PERFECT for the holidays, made with sugar, butter, vanilla, and heavy cream, then coated with sweet chocolate.
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White Chocolate Fruit and Nut Clusters
White Chocolate Fruit and Nut Clusters are an easy dessert perfect for parties or as gifts. Dried fruits, nuts, and chocolate candy ready in 30 minutes.
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Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Rods
Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Rods are a yummy mixture of melted caramel, pretzel rods, cubed butter, milk chocolate candy coating, chopped walnuts, and sugar.
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Cake Balls (Cake Truffles) are the PERFECT dessert, made with sweet yellow cake mixed with buttercream frosting and sprinkles then coated in melted white chocolate and topped with extra sprinkles!
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Fruitcake Bark is a fun twist on a holiday classic made with white chocolate, candied fruit, walnuts, gingersnaps and just a pinch of brandy.
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Peppermint Oreo Balls are crushed Oreo cookies and cream cheese dipped in sweet chocolate then rolled in crushed peppermint candies. They're the PERFECT no-bake sweet indulgent treat to serve or gift this holiday season!
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Chocolate Covered Pretzels are sweet, salty, and crunchy, made with pretzel twists, melted chocolate and flaky sea salt. It's the perfect holiday treat, or you can give them as gifts!
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Slow Cooker Candied Cinnamon Pecans
Slow Cooker Candied Cinnamon Pecans are a total breeze to make and will leave your house smelling so delicious. Try making these today!
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Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers
Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers are sweet and crunchy, made with graham crackers and melted chocolate, and the PERFECT no-bake treat!
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Peanut Butter Fudge is a smooth, buttery and rich old-fashioned recipe, with only 6 ingredients that is fridge ready in 10 minutes and perfect for holiday gifts!
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Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Pretzels
Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Pretzels are the PERFECT no-bake combo of salty and sweet with creamy peanut butter frosting and an indulgent chocolate coating!
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Salted Caramels made with sugar, cream, butter, and corn syrup are the PERFECT combo of sweet and salty, and incredibly easy to make!
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Chubby Hubby Bark is a no-bake goodie inspired by a popular ice cream that you can make with pretzels, white chocolate, peanut butter and chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Marshmallow Peanut Butter Squares
Chocolate Marshmallow Peanut Butter Squares are an easy no-bake bar with marshmallows, chocolate, peanut butter and peanuts in 30 minutes!
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Peanut Butter Confetti Squares
Peanut Butter Confetti Squares are an easy colorful dessert with fruity marshmallows, peanut butter, and butterscotch chips to make the perfect marshmallow fudge dessert.
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Mint Chocolate Covered Oreos are the PERFECT combo of sweet and crunchy, made with mint Oreos dipped in melted chocolate and covered in green sprinkles!
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Chocolate Cheesecake Bites is an easy no-bake treat made from cream cheese, chocolate pudding and mini chocolate chips rolled in cocoa powder.
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Homemade Turtle Candies are the PERFECT sweet and crunchy no-bake candy, made with melted chocolate and caramel over toasted pecans, ready in only minutes!
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Potato Chip Clusters are a salty candy clusters made with melted white chocolate, crunchy potato chips, and walnuts. The perfect savory sweet party snack!
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Chocolate Truffles made with only 3 ingredients and rolled in cocoa powder or powdered sugar are a creamy, indulgent dessert and incredibly EASY to make!
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Sour Patch Grapes - Healthier than the Candy!
With only two ingredients, these candied grapes come together in seconds and taste like you threw deliciously tart green grapes into the machines at the Sour Patch Candy factory!
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Chunky Monkey Bark is a an easy candy perfect for the holidays, with white chocolate, freeze dried bananas, walnuts, and chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Covered Potato Chips
Chocolate Covered Potato Chips are an easy 10 minute snack recipe with 2 ingredients. The perfect combination of crunchy, salty, and sweet!
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Chocolate Walnut Fudge made with ONLY 4 ingredients, butter, chocolate, condensed milk, and walnuts, is the perfect indulgent treat for the weekend!
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White Chocolate Candy Cane Oreo Bark
White Chocolate Candy Cane Oreo Bark is a no-bake treat, with dark chocolate, Oreo cookies, peppermint extract, and crushed candy canes.
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Oreo Bark is an easy 15 minute dessert made with white chocolate and lots of Oreos chunks, the quickest cookies and cream holiday candy everyone will love!
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Chocolate Confetti Squares are an easy no-bake dessert with fruity marshmallows, melted chocolate chips and peanut butter that taste like part marshmallow treat and part fudge!
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Rocky Road Candy is an easy recipe with just 3 ingredients. Yummy chewy holiday candy recipe made with melted chocolate, marshmallows, and toasted almonds!
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Slow Cooker Chocolate Peanut Candy
Slow Cooker Chocolate Peanut Candy made with just four ingredients is a perfectly easy holiday recipe that will make gifting even easier!
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Chocolate Covered Almonds are sweet and salty, made with almonds coated in melted chocolate and topped with flaky sea salt, ready in no time at all!
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Strawberry Cake Balls made with ONLY 4 ingredients are sweet, creamy, coated in melted chocolate and incredibly easy to make!
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Caramel Popcorn is crispy, buttery, salty and sweet! With just a few ingredients, you'll have fresh caramel corn and never go back to bagged!
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Homemade Crunch Bars are an easy candy bar made with Rice Krispies Cereal, chocolate chips and just a touch of sea salt made in just 10 minutes! You'll never buy the pre-made version again.
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Homemade Marshmallows made from gelatin, sugar, corn syrup, and vanilla extract are sweet, fluffy, and incredibly EASY to make!
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Caramel Apples are an Autumn treat made from Granny Smith apples, hot caramel sauce, and plenty of tasty toppings.
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