15 sour candy recipes

Old fashioned fruit cake with blackberry jam, fig preserves, watermelon rind preserves, candied cherries, pecans, and cocoa. Baked low and slow in a cast iron skillet.

Holiday mincemeat with chopped beef, suet, apples, sour cherries, dried fruit, and broken nuts simmered slowly with brandy and warming spices. A massive 48-serving batch for Christmas baking and gift-giving.

Made with sour milk and molasses, this moist, delicious bread just might make you become lucky!

Spiced vegetarian mince pie filling with grated apples, golden raisins, currants, candied orange peel, dark rum, and warming spices. No suet, no meat. Two lattice-topped pies of British holiday tradition.

Southwestern avocado vichyssoise with roasted poblanos, tomatillos, mint, and ginger, blended creamy with potatoes and avocado. Served chilled with a smoky chipotle sour cream drizzle.

Poppy seed rolls with a rich sour cream yeast dough filled with honey-stir-fried poppy seeds, raisins, candied orange peel, and meringue, rolled jelly-roll style and iced with lemon glaze.

Strucle z makiem, a traditional Polish poppy seed roll with a rich yeast dough filled with ground poppy seeds, honey, raisins, and candied orange peel, finished with lemon icing.

Pasteli me Fistikia, a traditional Greek candy with roasted pistachios set in a honey-sugar brittle. Four ingredients and a candy thermometer for an authentic Mediterranean sweet.

No-bake butterscotch cookies with melted butterscotch chips and peanut butter poured over corn flakes and peanuts. Four ingredients, no oven, and a candy-like crunch after a quick chill.

Mock peanut brittle made with corn flakes, peanut butter, corn syrup, and sugar. Four ingredients, no candy thermometer needed. A crunchy no-bake treat kids love.

Four-layer no-bake candy bar dessert with chocolate-butterscotch, peanut butter nougat, salted peanuts, and gooey caramel. Homemade Snickers bars in a 13x9 pan.

Peanut butter marshmallow cups with semi-sweet chocolate and mini marshmallows in foil baking cups. A four-ingredient no-bake candy that melts together in minutes and sets in the fridge.

Classic Southern candied sweet potatoes: thick-sliced sweet potatoes baked low and slow in a brown sugar glaze until the edges caramelize. Four-ingredient Thanksgiving side, no marshmallows required.

Homemade chocolate covered peanut clusters with just four ingredients: semisweet chocolate chips, corn syrup, water, and salted peanuts. Drop, chill, and devour. The easiest candy you'll ever make.

Easter nests candy: shredded coconut bound in melted white chocolate and green coating, shaped into little nests, and filled with jelly beans. A four-ingredient no-bake project kids love.