Homemade Candy All Year Long

These sweet treats filled with pecans will hit the spot after any meal — especially after a spicy dinner.

Recipe: Pecan Pralines

Sometimes your sweet tooth needs a dose of something stronger than fluffy marshmallow — for those occasions, you can douse the fluffy treats in chocolate ganache.

Recipe: Citrus Marshmallow Roulade with Chocolate Ganache

Just big enough for two bites — a luscious homemade version of everyone's favorite candy.

Recipe: Peanut Butter Cups

It's drizzled on ice cream and folded into our favorite candy bars, but nothing gives you that buttery caramel fix quite like the real thing.

Recipe: Sea Salt Caramel

Rich, smooth, and full of peanut flavor, these two-bite treats are more decadent than desserts twice their size.

Recipe: Buckeyes

If you're capable of reading a cookbook, you are capable of making this dessert look as insanely good as the picture.

Recipe: Sweechies

Yes, these classic childhood favorites can be made at home! They'll taste so bright and flavorful, though, you might not see anything they have in common with their packaged cousins.

Recipe: Strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups

Working quickly is the key to these homemade treats. Wrap them up individually for a festive touch any month of the year.

Recipe: Almond-Pistachio Nougat

The French term for button candies is nonpareils, which means "without peer." No one who remembers them from their youth would argue with that appellation. Nonpareils-dark chocolate buttons topped with sugar beads are the caviar of childhood.

Recipe: Nonpareils Candies

Liz Gutman and Jen King of Liddabit Candy use natural flavorings like tea, honey, fruit, and herbs in their sweet licks, but you can make more traditional pops with purchased food coloring and flavors. Craft them with seasonal flavors or your perennial favorites, you can't go wrong.

Recipe: DIY Lollies

This crunchy hodgepodge of movie watching snacks is the perfect fix for even the most stubborn of salty-sweet cravings.

Recipe: Movie-Night Bark

A tiny extra step transforms vanilla marshmallows into a fun and whimsical take on jelly doughnuts.

Recipe: Jam Doughnut Marshmallows

The combination of crunchy toasted almonds and chewy sweet-tart cherries covered in rich dark chocolate is about as close to the definition of "pure pleasure" as you can possibly get. Close your eyes as you eat one for the maximum effect.

Recipe: Cherry-Almond-Chocolate Clusters

There’s a good hit of salt and a touch of bitterness in these rich twists on classic caramel. Set them out and watch them disappear any night of the week.

Recipe: Beer and Pretzel Caramels

These chewy, sprinkles-coated balls (called brigadeiros in Portuguese) are more like chocolate caramels than French-style truffles.

Recipe: Brazilian Rich Chocolate Truffles

Like jellybeans for grown-ups, these gels have soft centers and crisp shells. This recipe also comes in lime flavor.

Recipes: Blackberry Fruit Jellies and Lime Fruit Jellies

This honeycomb looks like caramel while cooking — then you add baking soda, and the candy bubbles and, just like that, becomes a light and airy concoction.

Recipe: Honeycombs

Chocolate never goes out of season and tastes good no matter what it looks like, so don't worry if your truffles aren't perfectly round — they'll disappear before anyone notices.

Recipe: Coconut Macaroon Truffles

Fresh homemade marshmallows require just a few ingredients and put the jet-puffed varieties to shame.

Recipe: Chocolate Dipped Marshmallows