Are you trying to find the best Christmas candy recipes? We’ve rounded up 30 candy recipes to make for Christmas that are sure to inspire you. The only question is which candy recipe you will choose to make first.
There are so many to choose from truffles or caramels or fudge or bark or melts or bites. Whether just for your family or for gift giving, making holidays special includes doing things you do not normally do in the flow of day-to-day life!
So put on your favorite holiday music, find a comfy place to sit, and peruse this list of 30 Christmas candy ideas for inspiration on starting your own new Christmas memory.
1. Easy Peppermint Bark Recipe
Christmas candy that is no-bake is always a good choice! Here layers of dark and white chocolate with crushed peppermint candies on top look and taste amazing!
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2. Vegan No-Bake Chocolate Truffles
Learn how to make plant-based, rich chocolate truffles step-by-step with raw hazelnuts, dates, coconut oil, and cocoa powder.
3. Microwave S’mores
The classic three ingredients of camping and Christmas carols galore, but faster than you can reach the Frosty the Snowman chorus! (No campfire needed.)
4. Christmas Puppy Chow
Ready for an easy chocolatey, peanut-buttery Christmas Puppy Chow snack mix? This is the one for you! We couldn’t quite decide if this counted as candy or snack, so consider this a candy for the sake of this list!
5. Jello Candy Melts
This adorable recipe for year round use, inspired Christmas candy ideas too! Cream cheese, powdered sugar, and jello crystals form adorable button size candies in any color or flavor!
6. Easy Chocolate Rum Truffles
Christmas candy at the ready! These truffles have excellent pictures as well as a video to follow with no baking required. Use good chocolate and there are plenty of swaps for the rum!
7. Keto Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars – Low Carb
For those watching their carbs, these easy Christmas candy recipes will help keep your count in check! Five ingredients and no one will believe they are sugar free! They are so delicious!
8. Caramel Popcorn Balls
This caramel popcorn balls recipe, for example, is so popular because it is sweet, sticky, convenient, and delicious. Made by combining freshly popped popcorn with soft melted caramel and other amazing ingredients which we’ll learn more about shortly, these flavored popcorn balls are easy to make and are sure to impress.
9. Butterscotch Marshmallow Bites
Butterscotch had to make an appearance on this list of Christmas candy ideas! Easy, no-bake deliciousness with square pretzels, marshmallows dipped in butterscotch and covered in chocolate!
10. Crispy Peanut Butter Toffee Truffles
No-bake truffles with crushed toffee bits on top sound like fabulous Christmas candy ideas! Includes peanut butter, butter, powdered sugar, toffee bits, crisp rice cereal and chocolate! Delicious and crunchy!
11. Raspberry Coconut Bites
Christmas candy that could double as breakfast on-the-go? YES, please! Frozen raspberries thawed, rolled oats, coconut, dates, and almond butter all properly combined for a lovely bite!
12. Easy Peanut Butter Fudge
Love me some easy Christmas candy recipes! This fudge is made in the microwave and uses vanilla frosting, and two types of peanut butter! Definitely gonna feed that craving! Here’s an FAQ about how to store and keep fudge.
13. White Chocolate Popcorn
Candy popcorn certainly qualifies as holiday candies! For those with a sweet tooth, this white chocolate popcorn recipe will go down as an absolute treat whenever you’re craving something rich, sticky, sweet, decadent, and delicious.
14. White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Fudge
Christmas candies add such a pop of festiveness after any meal! These beautiful bites have red cranberries, green pistachios and Ghiradelli white chocolate, perfect for Christmas!
15. White Chocolate Snowman Bark
Christmas candy ideas just keep coming! Here we see adorable snowmen scattered about on this tasty bark! Melt and decorate! Gather up the decoration items and have some fun!
16. Homemade Caramels
Caramel Christmas candy sounds so scrumptious. You want yours to melt in your mouth smoothly and that requires paying close attention to temperature while making! Five ingredients and some patience (or a good podcast) while you stir!
17. Candy Cane Reindeer Pops
These adorable reindeer pops have Rudolph written all over them! As easy Christmas candy recipes go, this one is straightforward after you collect all the ingredients for decorating!
18. Rocky Road Candy
Rocky road holiday candies remind me of rocky road ice cream! Peanuts, marshmallows, milk chocolate are a dreamy combination! It’s the crunchy and chewy that make them simple and superb
19. White Chocolate Oreo Truffles
Oreos and fudgy truffles all in one Christmas candies dessert? Fabulous, just fabulous! Collect oreos, cream cheese, and while chocolate to make these luscious truffles!
20. Dinosaur Cookie Bark
Get the whole family together to make this easy, fun chocolate bark with Mother’s Dynamite Dinosaur cookies + Dinomite Sprinkles!!
21. Christmas Chocolate Pretzel Rods
Learn how to make easy Christmas Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods with white chocolate and sprinkles. A fun and festive no-bake holiday treat perfect for gifting or parties!
22. Candy Cane Oreo Balls
Festive and easy Christmas candy recipes are the best! Here oreos and cream cheese are blended and cut with mini cookie cutters and dipped in chocolate! Add white stripes and they do indeed look like candy canes!
23. Christmas Crack
Here’s a budget-friendly candy that’s become very popular this year! These holiday candies fall more in line with bark but with a salty twist! The base is saltine crackers with a coating of butter and brown sugar and drizzled with colored almond bark and sprinkles. Hard to beat!
24. Martha Washington Candies
Here coconut, pecans, and maraschino cherries are mixed and coated with chocolate as lovely Christmas candies!
25. Easy Buckeyes
If you have chocolate and peanut butter lovers in your life, the Christmas candy ideas to wow them will be like these! Buckeyes are a tree nut and these candies are made to look like them.
26. Polar Bear Paws {See’s Candies Copycat}
This Christmas candy of peanuts, caramel, and while chocolate may be your next obsession. Decadent and sweet, salty and gooey, perfect!
27. Easy Fantasy Fudge
Indulge in this homemade fantasy fudge recipe using easy chocolate chips, a can of evaporated milk, and a bag of mini marshmallows, for the creamiest, dreamiest fudge ever. And here are some tips for freezing fudge.
28. Salted Chocolate Covered Bourbon Cider Caramels
Bourbon cider caramel holiday candies are decidedly for the adult crowd. Specific instructions on making the caramels, coating with chocolate, and sprinkling with sea salt!
29. Chocolate-Covered 7-Minute Microwave Caramels
Kids Christmas candies are quick to make, whimsical to decorate and taste amazing! This recipe has all three covered! And they look great on a serving plate!
30. Butterscotch Marshmallow Bites
Butterscotch had to make an appearance on this list of Christmas candy ideas! Easy, no-bake deliciousness with square pretzels, marshmallows dipped in butterscotch and covered in chocolate!
The bottom line
Christmas candy includes lots of choices and delicious delights! Many are actually customizable to individual preferences or allergies! Most will be crowd pleasers and all gobbled up quickly. Enjoy the holiday candies while they last!
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