Tag Archive: candy

Toffee Pretzel Bark

Last week when I was preparing my chocolate covered pretzels for the bake sale, I opened the bag of pretzels that I had purchased to discover that it had more pieces than entire pretzels. That’s how it always works… If I had needed pieces, there would have been a whole bag of pristine whole pretzels. I…

Gingerbread House (Daring Bakers December)

The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes. I was…

Peppermint Mocha Truffles

As I’ve mentioned before, two of my favorite things about the holidays are making homemade gifts and the peppermint mocha (in the red cups) from Starbucks.  So, this year, when it came time to make some homemade candy for gifts, I used my favorite seasonal hot beverage as inspiration. These peppermint mocha truffles are pretty…

Monster Munch (Caramel Nutella Popcorn)

Do you ever hide food in your pantry and forget it’s there? Well, I bought a bag of Halloween M&Ms a few weeks ago when I was out at Target… I knew I wanted to make a Halloween treat with them, so I wrapped them up in the Target bag and stuck them in the…