Easter

37 Homemade Candy Recipes to Fill Your Easter Basket

Store-bought marshmallow chicks have a certain seasonal charm, but the best Easter sweets are the ones you make at home.

By The Editors of Epicurious

March 11, 2018

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Ube (Purple Yam) Candies
Traditionally made with ube (Filipino sweet potato), this recipe will work with any purple or orange sweet potato or yam.
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Saffron–Rose Water Brittle with Pistachios and Almonds
This brittle recipe is a riff on an Iranian candy known as sohan. Its snappy texture and fragrant flavor pair well with bitter tea.
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Maple Syrup Candies
If you don't have the molds suggested for these melt-in-your-mouth candies, pour the mixture into an 8-inch-square pan lined with lightly greased parchment and cut the block into squares once it's completely cool.
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Salted Black Licorice Caramels
People who love black licorice will flip for these assertively flavored candies. They’ll be not-quite-black without the food coloring but still very cool looking.
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Giant Chocolate Candy Bar with Peanuts and Nougat
The iconic chocolate bar of peanut-studded caramel and nougat is all about chewiness. Transforming that small bite into a giant layered treat means keeping the same flavors, but whipping up nougat fluffy enough to eat by the forkful with soft peanut-studded caramel.
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Rachel Been
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Turkish Delight
Traditionally flavored with rosewater, these chewy, pistachio-studded candies can be made with almost any extract or liqueur.
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Chocolate-Covered Marshmallow Cookies
This ambitious Mallomars-inspired recipe is a project: Make the (wheat-free!) cookie base and top with marshmallow on day one; enrobe in chocolate on day two.
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3-Ingredient Maple-Pecan Fudge
This decadent, pecan-studded fudge is all about the flavor of pure maple syrup.
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Boozy Grapefruit-Pomegranate Gummy Candies
Just for the adults, these sparkly crunchy treats are prime for mixing and matching your favorite flavors (with a splash of booze for good measure).
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Free-Form Chocolate Candies
Top these cute chocolate coins with whatever spices, seeds, nuts, crushed cookies or chips your family loves.
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Brigadeiros
Somewhere between a fudgy chocolate truffle and a Tootsie Roll is the Brazilian confection known as the brigadeiro.
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Honeycomb
This light and crunchy candy is perfect for celebrating the turn of spring, when the bees start buzzing.
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Romulo Yanes
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Salted Pistachio Brittle
Here, a coarse sea salt like fleur de sel or sel gris plays a few important roles: It tempers and cuts the richness of the nuts and butter, it adds a concentrated crunch— and it makes the brittle look divine.
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Sour Candied Citrus Peels
These are like homemade sour candy and we can't stop eating them.
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