It’s National Sour Candy Day: What’s Your Favorite Sour Candy?

[1] Sour balls: the original sour candy (photo © Tootsie Roll Inc.). [2] Lemon Heads, a candy to pucker for (photo © Hampton Popcorn Company). [3] Sour Patch Kids combined sour with chewy (photo © Edelweiss). [4] Sour Belts in the rainbow flavor (photo © First Choice Candy Store).   THE HISTORY OF SOUR CANDY…
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Easy-To-Make Easter Candy: A Jellybean Chocolate Bark Recipe

If you’d like to make some Easter candy, this Jellybean Chocolate Bark recipe is very versatile. You can make it with any chocolate—dark, milk, ruby, or white. You can add jelly beans for Easter, and customize the bark for any holiday or special occasion: candy corn for Halloween (photo #2), Red Hots for July 4th,…
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Peanut Butter Pucks: Gourmet Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

[1] Recchiuti Peanut Butter Pucks, the best peanut butter cups you’ll find (photos #1, #2, #3, #4 © Recchiuti Confections). [2] What’s inside the pucks: homemade peanut butter. [3] Peanut Butter Pearls, for when you only want a tiny taste. [4] Casting pearls before palates. [5] The original salted caramel dates back to France in…
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Pistachio Butter Cups Recipe–Instead Of Peanut Butter Cups

The history of pistachio nuts. > THe history of peanut butter cups.     RECIPE: PISTACHIO BUTTER CUPS In addition to the ingredients, you’ll need mini baking liners and a baking sheet or mini muffin tin,   Ingredients 1 1/4 cups Setton Farms Raw Pistachio Kernels 1 cup dark or semisweet chocolate chips 1 teaspoons…
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Easy Homemade Gum Drops Recipe For National Gum Drop Day

February 15th is National Gum Drop Day—as if the day after Valentine’s Day needed more candy! However, here’s an easy gum drops recipe that you can make for fun, and for later. Just store them in the fridge. Gum drops are an American invention, although we don’t know exactly whom to thank. Here’s the history…
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