17 candies hard recipes

Magic window cookies are sugar cookies with stained glass centers made from crushed hard candy that melts during baking. A holiday favorite for tree ornaments and gifts.

Homemade cappuccino mix with instant coffee, powdered creamer, sugar, and crushed orange hard candy for citrus warmth. Shelf-stable jar blend ready to scoop into hot water.

Critters in the Hay is a Halloween popcorn treat with pumpkin pie spice caramel corn, candy corn, licorice spiders, and gummy worms. A spooky party snack kids love.

Festive cupcakes decorated as a colorful caterpillar for kids' parties. Fluffy vanilla or chocolate cakes topped with tinted frosting, shredded coconut, and candy details arranged in a whimsical crawling pattern.

Lemon icebox pie layers a sweet cream cheese cushion under tangy lemon pudding, all in an almond-cookie crust topped with whipped cream and crushed lemon drops. Three-layer no-bake-friendly dessert.

Lemon Ice-Box Pie (For Non-Weight Watchers) recipe

Homemade Butterfingers candy with just 5 ingredients! Crispy peanut butter hard candy dipped in melted chocolate. A copycat classic that's easier than you think.

Peanut mojhy, a Pennsylvania Dutch molasses and brown sugar candy loaded with peanuts. An old-fashioned hard crack candy poured onto buttered tins with just five ingredients.

Simple hard candy Christmas molds made with sugar, corn syrup, and your choice of flavoring and color. Just 5 ingredients and a candy thermometer for sparkling holiday treats kids love to unwrap.

Old-fashioned raisin nougat made with hard-crack sugar syrup, marshmallow cream, and cocoa butter. A vintage homemade candy with chewy raisins folded throughout.

Airy honeycomb candy cooked to hard crack, foamed with baking soda, then dipped in melted chocolate for crunchy, melt-in-your-mouth homemade treats.

Almond praline bell made from toasted ground almonds and honey-sweetened hard crack candy, shaped in a mold for a stunning edible centerpiece. A classic showpiece confection.

Twisted peppermint candy cane cookies with red and white dough, sprinkled with crushed candy while still warm. A festive holiday baking project that kids and adults both love shaping by hand.

Cherry divinity is the pink church-cookbook candy: hard-ball sugar syrup whipped into beaten egg whites with cherry Jello, then loaded with chopped nuts and coconut. Old-fashioned, fluffy, festive.

Old-fashioned toffee from just three pantry ingredients: sugar, water, and a splash of vinegar boiled to a deep golden, glassy hard candy. No thermometer needed, just watch the colour. A nostalgic, simple homemade sweet.

Chocolate peppermint pinwheel torte with crushed candy cane filling and whipped cream frosting. Stunning Christmas dessert made from a cake roll cut into spirals.