Candy Recipes

Time to Eat!  We've put together some fun recipes that have candy in them, make candy or sweets, or are easily made by kids.  Have fun and make sure your Mom knows you are using the stove or microwave! If you have a recipe, please share it with us!  Submit a Candy Recipe Candy / Dessert Recipes M&M Cookies Chocolate Chip Cookies Smores Homemade Popsicles Mint Surprise Chocolate Creamy Candy Gingerbread Man Butterfinger Candy Bars M&M Cookies Ingredients 1 cup margarine 1 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar  2 eggs  2 teaspoons real vanilla  2 1/4  cups flour  1 teaspoon baking soda  1 teaspoon salt  14 ounces M&M's (plain)    Instructions 1. Mix margarine and sugars, then add eggs and vanilla. 2. Add dry ingredients and finally add 1/2 M&M's. 3. Drop by teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet placing remaining M&M's on top of each cookie. 4. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes.   Makes 18 cookies! Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks, 1/2 pound) butter, softened 3/4 cup granulated [white] sugar 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs 2 cups (12-ounce package) NESTLE TOLL HOUSE Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels   Instructions 1. Put flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. 2. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in large mixer bowl. 3. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. 4. Beat in flour mixture. 5. Stir in chocolate morsels. 6. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets. 7. Bake in preheated 375-degree oven for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Smores These are fun to make outside at a bonfire   Ingredients 1 Graham Cracker 1 Marshmallow 1 Hershey Bar   Instructions 1. Put your marshmallow on the end of a long stick 2. Using the stick, hold the marshmallow over the fire until soft 3. Break the graham cracker in half. 4. Break off enough hershey bar to cover the graham cracker 5. Put the marshmellow on the chocolate 6. Make a sandwich by putting the other graham cracker over the marshmellow. 7. Eat - Whatch out!  It might be hot! Frozen Popsicles You can make popsicles at home with anything you want!   Ingredients Small dixie cups Posicle sticks Kool-aid     or Orange Juice     or Go-gurt   Instructions 1. Put your favorite drink or yogurt in a cup. 2. Put the cup in the freezer where it won't spill. 3. Put a popsicle stick straight down in the middle.  Balance with other popsicle sticks to keep the main one in the middle. 4. Leave in freezer until frozen and then enjoy! 5. You can buy special molds too if you want. Mint Surprise Ingredients 1½ cups sugar ½ cup water 6 drops peppermint oil   Instructions 1. Put sugar and water into a saucepan and stir until sugar is dissolved. 2. Boil ten minutes; remove from heat, add peppermint, and mix until right consistency. 3. Drop from spoon onto slightly buttered paper. Chocolaty Creamy Candy Ingredients 2 cups sugar 1 tablespoon butter 2/3 cup milk 2 squares of unsweetened chocolate 1 teaspoon of vanilla   Instructions 1. Put butter into a saucepan; when melted, add sugar and milk. 2. Heat to boiling, then add chocolate, and stir constantly until chocolate is melted. 3. Boil fourteen minutes, remove from heat, add vanilla, and mix until creamy and mixture 4. begins to sugar slightly around edge of saucepan. 5. Pour at once into a buttered pan, cool slightly, and mark in squares. 6. Omit vanilla, if desired, and add, while cooking, one-fourth teaspoon cinnamon. Gingerbread Man Cookies Ingredients 1/2 cup molasses 1/2 cup sugar 1 tbsp vinegar 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. soda 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. ginger icing sprinkles   Instructions 1. Boil, stir and set aside to cool molasses, sugar and vinegar 2. When cool, beat slightly. 3. Add salt, soda, cinnamon and ginger 4. Blend and pat into a ball. Roll in waxed paper and refrigerate. 5. When cool, roll out on lightly floured dough board to 1/4 inch thickness and cut in desired shapes. 6. Bake on very lightly greased baking sheet in 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes. 7. When cool decorate with icing and sprinkles. Butterfinger Candy Bars Ingredients 5 Butterfinger candy bars (2 oz each) 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup sugar 2/3 cup brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 2 egg whites 1 1/4 cups chunky peanut butter 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt   Instructions Mix butter and sugars. Add egg whites, beat well. Blend in peanut butter and vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture to first bowl and mix well. Chop up candy bars and then stir them in. Shape into 1 ½ in. balls and place on greased baking sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.