Homemade Candy Archives - An Edible Mosaic™

Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Salted Caramels

December 20, 2017 by Faith 2 Comments

Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Salted Caramels are a beautiful balance of sweet caramel and flaky sea salt, with deep notes of peanut butter.

We all have our favorite types of candy; that one thing we can’t resist when we see it at the store. Peanut butter cups, cherry cordials, butter toffee, fudge, to name just a few. For me, when I walk by a candy shop and smell fresh-made caramel, it takes every ounce of willpower to resist. That aroma calls me like a siren.…

Keto Chocolate-Coated Maple Walnut Cheesecake Truffles

October 6, 2017 by Faith 11 Comments

Thank you to Nancy’s for sponsoring this post. I am happy for the opportunity to share brands that I believe in with my readers, and I hope you enjoy my recipe. As always, opinions stated are my own. Keto Chocolate-Coated Maple Walnut Cheesecake Truffles are quick and easy to whip up, and a great way to satisfy a sweet tooth while getting in healthy probiotics! Are you the type of person who orders a different flavor of ice cream every time or do you stick with your tried and true favorite? I go back and forth between things like mint chocolate chip, chocolate peanut butter, […]...

Crispy Toasted Puffed Quinoa Dark Chocolate Candy Bars

February 24, 2017 by Faith 5 Comments

Crispy Toasted Puffed Quinoa Dark Chocolate Candy Bars are a real-food take on a favorite candy bar! Growing up in the ‘80’s/90’s, things like Boston Baked Beans (the candy coated peanuts), candy cigarettes, and Warheads were our junk foods of choice. My sister also had a thing for Nestlé Crunch Bars, but I was more of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup kind-of girl. If I had been able to try this real-food version of a Crunch bar, things might have been different though; IMO, this blows the real thing out of the water....

3-Ingredient Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Eggs {Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs Copycat}

March 23, 2015 by Faith 24 Comments

As a kid, I always thought Easter had the best candy as far as holidays go. Jelly Belly jelly beans, Cadbury cream eggs, and Reese’s peanut butter eggs all in one day! (OMG, not to mention Sponge Candy.) What kid wouldn’t go crazy? (First of excitement and then of a sugar rush.)...

Maple Walnut Cheesecake Truffles {Dairy-Free; Gluten-Free; Naturally-Sweetened}

October 27, 2014 by Faith 21 Comments

With that evil temptation of a holiday coming at us this Friday, I had to take preemptive measures. Otherwise, I knew I’d be doomed....

Chocolate-Covered Sponge Candy

December 19, 2013 by Faith 27 Comments

Homemade Chocolate-Covered Sponge Candy is easier to make than you might think…here the crunch and complex sweetness of caramelized sugar candy is paired with chocolate for a treat everyone loves. Here’s a tip: this candy turns out best when made on a non-humid day! We don’t talk candy much around here (other than things like Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, Superfood Spiced Autumn Truffles, and Paleo Candy Apple Wedges), which is probably for the best. The mere mention of things like homemade Snickers Bars (which I have wanted to make for forever now!), Peppermint Patties, and Buckeyes is enough to make me want to throw all caution […]...

Healthy Chocolate-Walnut Fudge

March 25, 2013 by Faith 21 Comments

A while ago I bought a bulk-sized package of creamed coconut on Amazon. I was actually looking for coconut cream but I couldn’t find it; not realizing that several coconut products (creamed coconut, coconut cream, and cream of coconut) were named in a lawyer-like fashion with their meaning hinging on an ever-so-slight difference in word ordering, I bought a six-pack. How different could creamed coconut really be from coconut cream?, I asked myself. I was about to find out. Let’s just say, perhaps the only thing they have in common is that they’re made from coconut....

Gingersnap + White Chocolate Truffles {7 Days of Festive Holiday Treats}

December 16, 2012 by Faith 11 Comments

If you had to choose only one flavor that embodies fall, what would it be? For me, it’s ginger, without a doubt. (I’m pretty sure this is because of these cookies, which I vividly remember my mom frequently making in autumns gone by.) Even when I don’t have homemade Molasses Crinkles on hand, I can usually find a box of store-bought gingersnaps in my cupboard (which are surprisingly delicious!)....

Homemade Apple-Walnut Turkish Delight

December 19, 2011 by Faith 27 Comments

Ever notice how certain movies (even non-foodie movies) are incredibly good at making you crave certain things? (Which, incidentally, definitely has to be some kind of evil conspiracy.) It even starts with movies for the little ones; as a kid I couldn’t watch Snow White without wanting an apple (and yes, I understood that the apple in the movie was poisoned, lol!) and Lady and the Tramp has always incited a craving for spaghetti. And thanks to Edmund and the wickedly alluring White Witch, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will always mean Turkish delight....

Chocolate Peppermint Bark

December 26, 2010 by Faith 55 Comments

Everyone loves Chocolate Peppermint Bark…it’s an easy-to-make recipe that’s great for using up leftover candy canes! While I was growing up, my mom used to solve our leftover candy cane problem by saving them to hang on the Christmas tree next year....