Our Best Christmas Candy
These gorgeous Christmas candies are perfect to give as party favors or special holiday food gifts. Whether you prefer light-as-air truffles, hard candy, over-the-top fudge, chewy caramels, or sweet gumdrops, this is your one-stop shop for delicious candy recipes. These Christmas candies might be the cutest we've ever seen. Pretzels add a touch of salt, while chocolate brings the sweet. No-Bake White Chocolate and Almond Butter Balls One part Christmas candy, one part Christmas cookies , these treats are sure to impress. Break open the bright white exterior to reveal a delicious blend of crisp, crunchy rice cereal and creamy almond butter. Drizzle melted white chocolate over the treats for a gourmet presentation. Adult cookie decorating opportunity! Put your steady hands to the test with these caramel brownies. The final product is a Christmas sweet that tastes like a brownie and looks like a homemade candy bar. Looking for Christmas chocolates that take just 15 minutes of hands-on time? This chocolate-on-chocolate bark calls for five ingredients and a microwave. Toss the store-bought Christmas candy. Indulgent peanut butter cups are a cool winter breeze to make at home (and psst ... they're larger than store-bought, too!). Just alternate layers of melted chocolate and peanut butter in muffin cups, allowing a little time for each layer to firm up in the fridge. Simple perfection. You won't believe how easy this truffle recipe is to follow. (Hint: just three ingredients.) Thirty minutes of prep gives you 50 Christmas cookies to share. These truffle-esque Christmas candies contain layers of goodness: caramel-like balls of dulce de leche cookie dough, crunchy mini pretzels, and a pretty outer wrap of vanilla coating and sprinkles. They make a gorgeous presentation at Chri Continue reading >>
Sugar Free Candy Cane Bark
Home Dessert Bakery Goodies Candy Sugar Free Candy Cane Bark [This post may contain affiliate links | This site is an Amazon Associate site] Warning: Jumping to Recipe can result in missing important information about ingredients, techniques, or alternatives. Enjoy this popular holiday tradition of candy cane bark with this recipe for Sugar Free Candy Cane Bark. This delicious bark is easy to make and great for gift giving! This Sugar Free Candy Cane Bark is actually pretty easy to make. I like that it is a perfect treat to enjoy during the holiday season. This delicious Sugar Free Candy Cane Bark is really a sugar free take on a holiday favorite. This candy cane bark is also perfect as a gift idea for folks who are watching their sugar intake. This recipe is based upon my Sugar Free White Chocolate recipe. I learned how to make my own when I could not find sugar free white chocolate anywhere. This recipe can also be personalized as well. For the holiday season, we can use candy canes that have no sugar added to them. However, if you cannot find sugar free candy canes, you can use these sugar free starlight candies instead. Also, let us give this a peppermint taste with some peppermint extract such as one of these. Here are some similar recipes that you may also like. I have some great tips on which alternatives may work in a recipe such as this one. Be sure to follow me on facebook and subscribe to my recipes via email to keep up to date as well. The recipe for Sugar Free Candy Cane Bark If you cannot find sugar free candy canes, you can use these sugar free starlight candies instead. Also, let us give this a peppermint taste with some peppermint extract such as one of these. Prep a sheet or cookie pan with parchment paper. Set this aside. If you have not done so, cru Continue reading >>
The Best Low Carb Keto Candy Recipes | All Day I Dream About Food
Low Carb Candy! Your eyes are not deceiving you, I promise. With these amazing homemade candy recipes, you can enjoy the sweets and still stick to your healthy keto diet. Sugar free and keto friendly. Low carb candy is a great way to satisfy that sweet tooth without giving in to sugary temptation. This post is updated to include even more great sugar-free candy recipes! I have a sweet tooth and I am not afraid to use it. I know that some people believe a keto diet should be entirely free of sweets and treats but I am not one of those people. For me, food is not only about sustenance, but about enjoyment. Its more than just fuel its celebration and family and living life to the fullest. A little bit of dessert at the end of the day is the ultimate form of self care. Especially when that treat is sugar-free and keto friendly. And being able to indulge a bit here and there actually keeps me on track, rather than making me want to stray. I know many of you feel the same way. My website wouldnt be half so popular if that werent the case! So many of our modern celebrations and holidays revolve around candy, it can be very hard to avoid. Halloween, Christmas, Valentines Day, Easter candy here, candy there, candy candy everywhere. Our kids get loads of it from school and friends, and even your office has a candy bowl. If you have a major sweet tooth, having all that candy around can be a huge source of stress. You know that stuff is awful junk and so bad for both your health and your weight loss, but its calling your name. The sirens call of temptation is hard to resist. Well, you know what the best solution for that is? Your own healthy, homemade versions of the sugary stuff! It is possible to indulge without blowing your low carb diet. I love making my own candy and treats. Continue reading >>
Christmas Candies | Diabetic Connect
Can you make Christmas candies with Splenda? I am to take candies to a club meeting tomorrow night, plus the recipe. This might be an opportunity to help educate the women who give me a hard time about being a diabetic. PR Well I have tried and tried to get to Splenda candy recipes, found some cookies, nothing specific, got the idea that you can use your normal ingredients, just substituting the Splenda for the sugar. However, in suggesting Splenda instead of sugar, the ratio was 1 packet of Splenda = 2 teaspoons of sugar, so guess the ratio for Splenda in the bulk would be 1/2 c Splenda to 1 cup of sugar. The last time I tried to get into Splenda.com/candy recipes, or such , I got into Babes-Girls-etc-sweet etc, NOT what I was looking for, so quit before my PC became contaminated! hahaPR P.S. I will have to actually try it, out of time now for today, but make sure the Splenda interacts with the other ingredients in a sweet way-hardens into a soft ball, that was using corn syrup tho-see, I didn't find anything that FIT. Oh, well, later, Pat R Pat, i found a couple on the splenda web site that you might try.Just go to wwwsplenda.com.,or you might try splenda.tastebook.com/recipes and type in candy. Im also told that you can use it just like sugar,dont know since i havent made candy in years. Sorry they give you a hard time Patmaybe you should put something else in the candy? hahaha! Jussssst kiddingDiabetes is one of the leading causes of death, yet because its so "invisible" so to speak people dont realize the effects of it until they see you have a seizure or somethingThis is so sad to me and makes me so madDont let their guilt about all the sugar weigh you downbut you are rightthis is probably a great opportunity to provide a little infoUnfortunately I have never mad Continue reading >>
Grandma's Chocolate Missouri Cookies
My very favorite cookie, for as long as I can remember, has been the chocolate missouri cookie. These soft chewy gooey no-bake treats are packed with three of my favorite cookie flavors chocolate, peanut butter and oatmeal. They are so simple to prepare, yet taste like pure heaven. Although this is a recipe that my grandma used to make, and passed down to my mom, I dont actually associate these cookies with either my grandma or my mom. When I think of warm gooey chewy chocolate missouri cookies, I think of my Aunt Reen. Because Aunt Reen is the one who always baked these for all of us kids when our extended family got together. We kids would stand around the stove watching Aunt Reen make these, and then burn our mouths because we couldnt stand waiting for the cookies to cool, so we would pick them up and eat them while still hot. Mom recently explained to me that it was Grandma who first made them for us, and then my mom. But, since Aunt Reen loved baking so much and didnt do much cooking Mom turned over the cookie-making duties to Aunt Reen for all of over family functions. I was surprised to have just found this bit of family culinary history out after 41 years! Mom doesnt know who passed the recipe down to Grandma if it was her mother, an older sister, a friend, or if she simply clipped it from a magazine. And since Grandma passed away in 1992, I will never know. For me, its just never Christmas without my favorite childhood cookies. So, although I really dont do much baking at all even during the holidays I have always made these cookies at Christmas time. And this year, I passed on the tradition to our 12 year old son Hunter, who made them along with his Christmas candies as gifts for his friends and his sisters friends. Hunter has now mastered the art of Grandmas Continue reading >>
20 Healthy Homemade Candy Recipes (paleo, Vegan, Gluten Free)
Home food 20 Healthy Homemade Candy Recipes (Paleo, Vegan, Gluten Free) 20 Healthy Homemade Candy Recipes (Paleo, Vegan, Gluten Free) Never buy store-bought candy bars again- Your favorite candy and chocolate bars get a healthy and homemade makeover! Made with wholesome, clean ingredients, they are the perfect snack or dessert to enjoy guilt-free! My copycat candy bars taste just as good as the original, youd never believe they were paleo, vegan, keto, low carb and sugar free! Its almost Halloween which means one thing- Candy, and lots of it. Unfortunately, candy isnt seasonal- It is something which is available year-round and is a popular snack, dessert, sugar-fix or something to silence the sweet tooth. If you are anything like me, I use the excuse of Halloween to stock up on even more candy, even varieties I wouldnt typically choose (which bites me in the behindI use those less than stellar ones in leftover candy bar crunch bars ). Candy bars and chocolate bars dont need to have the unfair unhealthy stigmas on them. Over the past couple of years, Ive shared many popular candy bars, but given them a healthy makeover. Traditional candy bars are typically full of multiple types of sugar, processed flour, oils and other nasties. They also are generic and not really fitted for any dietary lifestyle. In my homemade candy and chocolate bars, youll notice some huge differences. While they taste very similar, my versions eclipse their original counterparts. Bonus? Every single recipe is completely vegan, gluten freeand sugar free, most are paleo friendly, and quite a few are completely low carb and keto friendly too! If youve ever wanted to know how to make a snickers bar, what are twix bars made of or even how to make healthy Reeses peanut butter cupsI have you covered! You Continue reading >>
Sugar-free Peanut Butter Chocolate Candy Recipe
Sugar-Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Candy Recipe Trisha Gilkerson 20 Comments This Post Contains Affiliate Links Several months ago I wrote about cocoa crack, a sugar-free candy our family just cant seem to get enough of. Well, it was time to expand our horizons. After a bunch of tweaking, Ive come up with another candy our family likes even bettera sugar-free peanut butter chocolate candy recipe I know youll love too! Hello?! Chocolate and peanut butter. What could go wrong here? Peanut butter chocolate candy you can feelgoodabout giving your kids! These are also known around our house as the incredible disappearing peanut butter candies! It seems I cant make enough of these for them to stick around for long. My husband and kiddos enjoy them for a little sweet treat all through the day. By the time its nighttime and I open the freezer to grab one, stock is low (or gone)! This is a treat you can feel good about feeding your family. A treat that is sugar-free and packed with healthy fats to nourish their brains. Our family loves peanut butter, so Im thankful we dont have any peanut allergies. If your family cant do peanuts though, you could substitute for another nut butter, sun butter, or use more coconut butter in place of the peanut butter. I hope you enjoy this simple recipe as much as we do! Continue reading >>
14 No Bake Sugar-free Candy Recipes
15 Low-Carb French Fries You Should Give a Go When Youre Steering Clear of Potatoes Healthier Candy for special occasions like Valentines neednt be filled with sugar and unhealthy oils. Just a few minutes of your time and you can make healthier candy at home. None of these sugar free delights use artificial sweeteners. All are made using natural sugar free substitutes. You can always taste and adjust the sweetener as you prefer and most just require some melting of unsweetened baking chocolate. You can make chocolates at home without much effort or time. No one will even notice as these taste just as luscious as the sugar laden kinds, in fact they will love you even more as homemade gifts of love always trump store bought versions! Brenda Bennett is the cookbook author, homeschool mom, photographer, cook and blogger behind Sugar-Free Mom.Sugar-Free Mom is a woman on a mission to reduce and eliminate added, processed sugars in her familys life. She focuses on using natural sugars and sugar free substitutes to create healthier versions of popular and beloved recipes. Since 2011, her blog has become the most popular sugar-free source on the web today. Her cookbook,Sugar-Free Mom, Naturally Sweet & Sugar-Free Recipes for the Whole Family, is available now for order , released on December 9, 2014. Uh-oh! Empty comment.It looks as though youve already said that.You seem to be logged out. Refresh your page, login and try again.Whoops! Sorry, comments are currently closed. You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down. Continue reading >>
Buttery Walnut Toffee Candy Keto, Low Carb, Thm S
Line a small baking pan with foil and spray with cooking spray. Melt butter over low medium until it starts to turn golden. Add nuts and cook for about five minutes until they are slightly toasted. Add 4 tbsp of the cream and the sweetener. Cook until thickened and golden. This takes about 10 minutes. If it doesn't seem to be thickening you can turn up the heat to medium or medium high but stir constantly. It can burn quickly. Remove immediately from the heat and add the salt and reserved cream. Stir until smooth. Pour onto the foil lined tray and refrigerate until firm to the touch (about half an hour). Melt the chocolate. I do this in a glass bowl in the microwave stirring every thirty seconds. Add sweetener if needed. Pour half of the chocolate on top of the toffee. Put in the freezer until the chocolate is solid. Flip over the toffee bark and peel off the foil. Put the foil back on the tray and put the toffee on chocolate side down. Pour the rest of the chocolate on top. Refrigerate or freeze until firm. The filling stays soft like a caramel for the first few hours but hardens like a toffee overnight. ***I used two 3.5 oz Lindt 90% bars and added 1/3 cup sweetener- make sure to use chocolate that you like - you can really taste it in this recipe - if you use very dark or unsweetened chocolate just sweeten it to taste Continue reading >>
4 Ingredient Toffee Recipe - Bettycrocker.com
There are a few reasons toffees and caramels separate. One of the most common triggers is when the candy has undergone an abrupt temperature shift, either becoming too cold or too hot in a very short period of time. Try not to "shock" your candy by drastically turning the heat up or down during cooking. Additionally, it is especially important to watch the candy in the beginning of the cooking process, while the butter and sugar are melting together, because separation can often result if these two elements melt unevenly. If you have very effective stovetop burners I recommend turning them to medium-low to allow the butter and sugar to melt gently in the beginning stages. Toffee and caramel can also separate if the recipe calls for constant stirring and the candy isnt stirred often enough. Additionally, separation is more likely to occur when using thinner (cheaper) saucepans, as they dont conduct heat efficiently and lead to hot spots that can cause the butter to separate. Finally, humidity can cause the butter to separate, so if your kitchen is very warm and humid, its not a good time to be making candy. So, can your separated candy be saved? If your candy separates during the cooking process, there is a chance you can save it. Sometimes separated toffee or caramel can be saved by removing the saucepan from the heat and stirring constantly and smoothly until it comes back together, then gradually returning it to the heat, stirring constantly. You can also try adding a spoonful or two of very hot water to the toffee to help it come together. Start with one tablespoon and stir the candy to help it come together. Add additional spoonfuls if necessary, but do not add more than 1/4 cup of water total. If you have already poured your candy out to cool by the time it separa Continue reading >>
Sugar Free Candy For Diabetics
Making sugar free candy for diabetics, dieters, and anyone else watching their sugar intake can be easy and fun if you know your ingredients and have a few good recipes. There’s a reason everyone understands the phrase “like a kid in a candy store.” We all love sweets, but unfortunately, sweets don’t love us back. Pure sugar is a bad deal for our health on many levels, especially if we’re diabetic. Does that mean we have to bid our beloved candies adieu forever? Not at all. Making sugar ree candy for diabetics, dieters, and anyone else watching their sugar intake can be easy and fun if you know your ingredients and have a few good recipes. Choose The Right Sugar Substitute There are a ton of sugar substitutes for home candy cooks out there, but one of the best ones to use in sugar free candy making is erythritol. It’s a sugar alcohol which occurs naturally in fruits, mushrooms, and fermented foods like wine and soy sauce. It has almost no glycemic index, which makes it an excellent choice for use in sugar free candy for diabetics. It also has no calories and no carbs, so it’s easy to fit into your healthy diet. Taste-wise, erythritol ranges from 60% – 80% as sweet as sugar, so you might need to use it in combination with a high intensity sweetener, like sucralose or stevia. Erythritol is not yet widely available in stores, so your best bet may be to purchase it online. If you’re offered the option of powdered or granular erythritol, go with powdered, as it dissolves more readily. If you end up with the granular form, you can easily throw it in the blender and grind it up until it’s nicely powdered. Sugar Free Chocolate And Candy Coatings Another supply you’ll want to keep on hand is sugar free chocolate and candy coatings. It’s important to bear Continue reading >>
Diabetes-friendly Christmas Cookie Recipes
Diabetes-Friendly Christmas Cookie Recipes Celebrate the season with a batch of classic Christmas cookies. From gingerbread to sugar cookies, we've reduced the carbs, calories, and sugar--but kept the flavor--in your favorite holiday cookie recipes. Bake these delicious diabetic cookies today! Linzer torte, made with a nut crust and filled with raspberry jam, is a favorite treat in Austria. This is a low-calorie, lower-fat version of that classic dessert. Even though this low-calorie cookie recipe is made with egg whites and plain low-fat yogurt, the cookies still taste rich and sweet. Molasses, ginger, cinnamon and cloves flavor these holiday cookies which have just 73 calories each. Here's a low-calorie, lower-fat version of traditional sugar cookie dough. Roll out and shape it for all your favorite holiday cookies. Cranberry-White Chocolate Cornmeal Tea Biscuits Little biscuits are flavored with dried cranberries and white chocolate for a sweet bite that's just right with coffee or as a snack. Looking for a unique, diabetes-friendly desert? This shortbread, flavored with rosemary and topped with a white chocolate drizzle, is ready in just 40 minutes. Perfect for holiday parties, these diabetic-friendly mini desserts are filled with a great-tasting blend of pudding and dried cherries. These spicy chocolate cutout cookies are delicious and fun to make. You can decorate them with chocolate or vanilla icing--or both! With just a few simple steps, you can transform plain chocolate into a divine treat with this chocolate bark recipe. We stir chopped peppermint candies and chocolate-covered espresso beans into this chocolate bark, which is perfect for a gift. This irresistible diabetic-friendly peanut butter cookie recipe contains no flour. For Christmas or special occasio Continue reading >>
Low Carb Candy Recipes To Make For No-guilt Treats
Low Carb Candy Recipes to Make for No-Guilt Treats This post may be sponsored or contain affiliate links, but all opinions are our own. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliates sites. Are you getting tempted to give in to all the holiday treats? Dont let yourself get off track. There are plenty of easy to make low carb candy recipes out there. I can never seem to get away from candy at this time of year with Halloween less than two weeks away. Its everywhere in the stores and there is always a stash of candy in the office that can be very tempting when I dont bring enough low carb snacks with me to last the whole work day. We live on a large back lot in the country so I dont buy any candy for trick or treat visitors, but I have kids who enjoy going out for the treats. My youngest daughter is just 22 months old and we are planning to take her trick or treating for the first time as we didnt take her out last year. I have some new low carb candy recipes that I would like to try out, but Ive had very little time to experiment with them. Looking back, I found the following chocolate candy recipes which Ive posted previously. Another favorite of mine is sugar free white chocolate . Although all these recipes are great, I took a little time to rate them. It should be no surprise that my #1 favorite low carb candy recipe was for peanut butter chocolate squares. Im a HUGE fan of peanut butter. In fact, I updated that recipe into actual sugar free peanut butter cups . Heres the list of my favorite homemade candy as ranked by me starting with my most favorite recipe: Continue reading >>
Homemade Sugar Free Turtle Candies | All Day I Dream About Food
Homemade pecan turtle candy thats sugar-free and low carb? Oh baby! These delicious keto caramel pecan clusters are a truly special treat. Be ready to fight with your loved ones for the last of them! When I was a kid, Pecan Turtles were the epitome of high class dessert in my mind. Despite the fact that they were sold in every drugstore and convenience mart, we didnt get to have them very often. They were special treats, usually reserved for the holidays. But oh, oh that combination of chewy caramel, toasted pecans, and rich chocolate. It was magical stuff and I always considered Turtles to be something to aspire to. Not until later did I realize that they were fairly plebeian and the brand was not even of the highest quality. Still they retained near mythical proportions in my my head, especially when I got a chance to try the caramel pecan turtles from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Now those were something special, my friends! Pure sweet chocolate-y happiness. Until recently, I never wanted to try my hand at a sugar free version because I knew I couldnt get the caramel gooey enough. I knew that although they would be tasty, they wouldnt live up to the mythical pecan turtles in my head if the caramel part recrystallized. But once I mastered my gooey, soft sugar free caramel sauce , I knew I had a chance at making truly delicious, chewy keto Turtles. Now, the caramel here isnt exactly the same as my caramel sauce, its formulated to be thicker so it doesnt run all over the place. But the flavour profile is very much the same. You will also notice that I only put 3 or 4 pecans per cluster. You could do five and make it in the shape of a proper turtle. But its easier and a bit lower in carbs if you just do 3. The caramel sauce is critical here. You need the right cons Continue reading >>
30 Sugar-free Christmas Candies You Can Easily Make At Home!
30 Sugar-Free Christmas Candies You Can Easily Make At Home! By Brenda Bennett Community Table @thesugarfreemom Its that time of the year when goodies and treats for Christmas stockings and cookie trays will be purchased. Why not try your hand at making some fabulous stocking stuffers at home where you can control the amount of sweetener in your candy? All of these candy recipes are sugar free, low in carbs and with that being said, easy enough for you to switch out the sweetener to your favorite kind. These recipes are the best way to combat sugar cravings, but not only that, theyre perfect to bring to a holiday party as well. Brenda Bennett is the cookbook author, homeschool mom, writer, photographer, cook and blogger behind Sugar-Free Mom. Sugar-Free Mom is a woman on a mission to reduce and eliminate added, processed sugars in her familys life. She focuses on using natural sugars and sugar free substitutes to create healthier versions of popular and beloved recipes. Since 2011, her blog has become the most popular sugar-free source on the web today. Her cookbook, Sugar-Free Mom, Naturally Sweet & Sugar-Free Recipes for the Whole Family, is available now for order. Uh-oh! Empty comment.It looks as though youve already said that.You seem to be logged out. Refresh your page, login and try again.Whoops! Sorry, comments are currently closed. You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down. Continue reading >>
