Homemade Christmas Candy Recipes

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Christmas is a yummy festival because you get to taste all the mouth-watering food during Christmas. The yummiest Christmas food is Christmas desserts. Many Christmas sweets are popular during the celebration of Christmas. You have Christmas candies, Christmas pudding, Christmas cookies, Christmas cakes and many more. Christmas candies are favorite among the given. They are not just mere chocolates but they include nuts like almonds, cashews and walnuts that are rich in protein and fats. Some Christmas candies have raisins, rum and milk in them to get that extra flavor.

The proper fun of celebration comes together. When you make these yummy things at home then they are sweeter than the store bought sweets. You get the enjoyment of making it with your family and special compliments that you get from your family members and friends. You can create such special family get together with homemade Christmas candy recipes

Below you will find some homemade Christmas candy recipes that are easy to make with readily available ingredients:

1. Christmas Candy Cane Recipe

   Ingredients

   • Peppermint Oil
   • One cup corn syrup
   • Powdered sugar
   • Half teaspoon baking powder
   • One cup water
   • Four tablespoons vanilla
   • One cup sugar

   Method

   • Take a saucepan add a cup of sugar, corn syrup and water in it.
   • Cook it on a medium-high flame for some time until a soft-crack stage.
   • Then remove the pan from the flame.
   • Now add half a teaspoon of peppermint oil and two to three drops of food color.
   • Stir the mixture well.
   • Now pour this mixture on cookie sheet.
   • Now let the mixture on the sheet cool down just enough so that you can hold it.
   • Now roll the sheet into a rope shape (you can even try out different shapes).
   • Now twist the candy cane on top to form a hook.
   • Now place this on a coated cookie sheet until it dries completely.

2. White Chocolate Rum and Eggnog Truffles Recipe

   Ingredients

   • One and half cups light corn syrup
   • Cinnamon flavoring
   • Red Food Coloring
   • One cup water
   • Three and three fourth cup sugar

   Method

   • Take readily prepared candy molds, grease them with butter, and keep them aside.
   • Take a large saucepan and mix sugar, light corn syrup and water.
   • Keep it on a low flame and stir until the sugar in it melts and the mixture begins to boil.
   • Continue to boil the mixture but do not continue stirring once the sugar is dissolved.
   • After sometime, the mixture will stop boiling; now add cinnamon flavor and red food color in it. Now take down the saucepan from the flame.
   • Now take those buttered candy molds and put them in the prepared mixture.
   • Let the mixture cool and then take the molds out of the mixture after it is completely coated with the mixture.
   • Store these sweet candies in an airtight container

   Tip

   • If you do not have candy molds, then use cookie sheets and spread the mixture evenly on it. Then cut it into desired shapes.
   • If you stir the mixture, while the ingredients are melting then this can result in a cloudy candy.

These two simple homemade Christmas candy recipes will create some sweet home memories of Christmas when you enjoy them with your family.