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Alanna Kellogg is the second-generation author of Kitchen Parade, a food and recipe column that features seasonal recipes for every-day healthful eat...
 
 
 
 

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photo by Food ChroniclesIt's amazing what heat does to sugar, chocolate and butter. This time of year, our kitchens turn into veritable boards of candy-making. Let's check some tried-and-true recipes. Please forgive me if I break into song, "The candy man can ..."

Food Chronicles ~ English Toffee (that's Food Chronicles' great photo, too)
More Than Burnt Toast ~ Almond Roca
Technicolor Kitchen ~ Homemade Oreos
Prairie Bluestem ~ links to several recipes, including cherry bonbons, turtles and pecan candy

Peanut butter is popular.

My Own Sweet Thyme ~ Peanut Butter Fudge
Apple & Spice ~ Peanut Butter Balls
Proverbs 31 Living ~ Peanut Butter Kisses

So is peppermint.

Baking Bites ~ Peppermint Marshmallows
Simply Recipes ~ Peppermint Bark
Kim O'Donnel at WashingtonPost.com ~ Peppermint Patties

Are you making homemade candy this season? If you're a food blogger, leave a link to a favorite candy recipe in the comments. If you're a blog reader, feel free to share your own recipe right in the comments; better yet, join Blogher and write your own post for publication right here on Blogher.

BlogHer food editor Alanna Kellogg loves her easy recipe for Graham Cracker Toffee from her food column Kitchen Parade.

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Cooking Up a Story 5 pts

My yearly tradition is to make fudge and share it with family and friends. Everyone starts drooling when I start making it. My secret is I get it out of the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, p 150, and it's called (aptly) 'remarkable fudge'. Like most cooks, I fiddle with it by adding different ingredients...nuts, white chocolate instead of milk chocolate, peppermint pieces, etc. It's a time-tested recipe and happily received!

I did a story on a fascinating chocolatier, and you can see it here:
http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2006/06/06/a-...
She shares her Ginger Almond Toffee recipe, here:
http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2006/06/06/gi...

Happy Holidays all!!

Rebecca
http://cookingupastory.com/