Chocolate candies

Step by step instructions (with pictures) on how to make homemade chocolates (including a peanut butter filling recipe).

If you're ready to try your hand at making chocolate candy, start with these chocolate candy recipes such as fudge, nut clusters, and chocolate barks.

These chocolate covered caramels are extra buttery and soft, and they're coated with a layer of snappy dark chocolate and crunchy sea salt!

These easy homemade chocolate candy bars taste just like classic candy bars with their airy, soft chewy filling and chocolate shell. The bars are just 2 ingredients and easy to make.

When I found out that a chocolate shop had opened up in NYC where Susanna Yoon, former pastry chef at Per Se, was turning out gorgeous bonbons and packaging them up inside gift boxes that looked like books, I knew immediately that I needed to get downtown and check it out. Located on Mott Street

These rich and decadent Chocolate Caramel Truffles have a luscious creamy center surrounded by a sweet chocolate shell with a delicate sprinkling of flakey sea salt. They're the perfect homemade, bite-sized treat for any occasion.

You’re not sharing your haul this year, so forgo the Hershey’s minis variety pack and ball out a bit instead.

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It was my dad who inspired me to first try making this candy. He remembered it from when he was a boy. The ultimate compliment was when he told me my version tasted even better! My husband is a driver with a parcel service, so he works long hours around the holidays—which gives me time to make treats! —Shelly Matthys, New Richmond, Wisconsin

I'm still on a sweets kick (shocker), so I put together something a little different for this week's food post. Instead of a recipe, I rounded up my top 4 favorite candies from Trader Joe's