1,508 sandi recipes

Santa Claus cookies decorate flat sugar cookies with red sugar caps, miniature marshmallow tassels, currant eyes, cinnamon candy noses, and coconut beards. A festive holiday craft cookie kids can help build from baked rounds.

No-bake chocolate pie made with melted Hershey's almond bars folded into whipped cream and chilled overnight. A four-ingredient dessert that turns candy bars into a silky chilled chocolate-almond mousse pie.

Easy layered buckeyes with a peanut butter and powdered sugar base topped with melted chocolate, pressed into a pan and cut into squares. All the flavor of buckeye candy without rolling individual balls.

M&M's chocolate macadamia chewies are soft, chewy drop cookies loaded with shredded coconut, buttery macadamia nuts, and mini M&M's baking bits. A tropical-meets-candy-shop twist on the classic chocolate chip cookie.

Butter pecan chocolate fudge in easy layers: a butterscotch-pecan base under smooth chocolate, topped with more chocolate. Made with frosting instead of a candy thermometer, so it's no-fail and no-bake.

Pumpkin pie with brown sugar, corn syrup, and a custard set by both eggs and evaporated milk for a creamier filling. Warm cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, finished with whipped cream and candied ginger slivers.

Slow cooker fudge melts chocolate chips with coconut milk, honey, and a pinch of sea salt into a smooth, dairy-free fudge, no candy thermometer required. Set it and stir, then chill into rich squares.

Make some halloween cupcakes with your kids, so much fun!

Maple taffy apples coated in a boiled maple syrup and brown sugar candy shell that snaps when you bite through. An ice water dip sets the coating smooth and glossy. Real maple flavor, not just caramel.

A two-layer cocoa cake with a cooked fudge frosting made the old-fashioned way, heated to soft-ball stage and beaten until thick. Cake flour keeps the crumb feathery light against that dense, candy-like frosting.

An old-fashioned apple nut pudding with barely any flour, just enough to bind chopped apples, walnuts, and warm spice into a chewy, candy-like baked dessert. Quick to mix and lovely warm with cream.

Chocolate covered cherry smoothie blends frozen cherries, banana, and yogurt with a swirl of chocolate syrup, so it tastes like the candy in drinkable form. Thick, creamy, and ready in 5 minutes, no ice cream needed.

Old-fashioned rice krispie date roll cookies made by cooking dates with eggs, sugar and butter into a ball, then mixing with crisp rice cereal and rolling in powdered sugar. A no-bake retro icebox candy.

Handi chicken is the dum-style Pakistani classic: bone-in chicken cooked in a sealed earthenware pot with yogurt, whole spices, and paya (lamb foot) stock for deep flavor.

Ranger Joe cookies pack everything but the kitchen sink: rolled oats, Rice Krispies, coconut, pecans, and chocolate chips into one chewy, crunchy, candy-bar-of-a-cookie. The classic Texas ranch-house cookie that bakes off four dozen at a time.

Chiles en Nogada, Mexico's patriotic dish: roasted poblanos stuffed with a sweet-savory pork picadillo, draped in a cool, creamy walnut sauce and scattered with ruby pomegranate seeds. The green, white, and red of the flag on one plate.