Chocolate peanut butter hearts are the perfect Valentine’s Day treat. Heart-shaped peanut butter Rice Krispies treats are coated in sweet chocolate and decorated with Valentine’s sprinkles for an adorable sweet for your sweet!

Christmas is behind us, and soon New Year’s will be, as well. After that, we’ll be rolling into Valentine’s Day.

When this holiday rolls around, I love serving treats like Valentine pretzels, Valentine Puppy Chow mix, and Valentine’s mini brownie bites to my loved ones to show them how much I care.

This year, I’m adding these chocolate peanut butter hearts to my lineup. Heart-shaped peanut butter Rice Krispies treats are coated in chocolate and topped with sprinkles for a festive treat perfect for family or romantic partner.

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• Limited Ingredients: It only takes 6 simple ingredients found in any grocery store to make this recipe.

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This dark chocolate caramel recipe is an easy recipe loaded with deliciously sweet flavors. Homemade, bite-sized caramels are covered in a dark chocolate candy coating and decorated with festive sprinkles for a holly jolly treat.

Caramel is a classic flavor that’s perfect for any time of year, especially the holidays. When Christmas rolls around, I love making treats like my signature homemade caramel, cashew caramel corn, and apple pecan bites with caramel sauce.

Now, I’ve added a new caramel creation to my holiday recipe box. This dark chocolate caramel combines classic homemade caramel with a dark chocolate coating that is simply irresistible. Like my pecan caramel, it’s a tasty twist on a classic that remains true to the original.

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• Limited Ingredients: It only takes a handful of simple ingredients to make this recipe.

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This peanut brittle delivers your favorite sweet, peanut flavor and crunchy texture with the convenience of the microwave. Skip the boiling and save time, while still getting classic brittle!

When I think of holiday recipes, I immediately think of brittle. Peanut brittle is an old-fashioned candy that’s relatively easy to make but is usually reserved for special occasions. It’s the best combo!

I have a delicious chocolate cashew brittle that I love bringing out for everything from Thanksgiving and Christmas to potlucks. Now, I’m getting back to basics with this easy peanut brittle.

This recipe uses classic ingredients like sugar, corn syrup, and peanuts, but instead of boiling the mixture, I microwave it. It yields the same crackly texture and sweet flavor, but it’s so much easier!

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• Limited Ingredients: It only takes six simple ingredients to make this brittle, and all of them are most likely in your kitchen right now.

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This delicious St Patrick’s Day Muddy Buddies recipe is made with Chex cereal, white chocolate, pretzels, and lots of sweet treats as mix-ins. This a festive and delicious snack recipe the whole family will enjoy. Great for parties and a midday snack.

Muddy buddies are a great addition to any party year-round, and they also make great holiday treats because you can add colored ingredients to match the holiday. I’ve made this tasty sweet and salty snack mix for pretty much every holiday and throughout the year for no reason other than that they’re delicious. When my kids were in school, I made double batches on the weekends for sleep overs and as snacks to take to school with them. One of my favorite variations is this St. Patrick’s Day mix. It’s sweet and delicious, and the flavors work amazingly well together. You can’t beat an easy treat!

St. Patrick’s Day Muddy Buddies

This mix starts with a muddy buddy variation of Chex coated with a mix of white chocolate and powdered sugar. Then, I add mix-ins that are both delicious and perfect for the holiday. Green and white mint chocolate M&Ms, Andes mints, chocolate mint cookies, mint dark chocolate M&Ms, green apple Jelly bellies, and mini pretzels come together to create a sweet and salty snack mix that’s out of this world.

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Christmas Crack is an easy and delicious homemade toffee recipe topped with chocolate and sprinkled with holiday sprinkles. A snack that is perfect for the holidays.

Christmas Crack is one of the best holiday treats of all time if you ask me. If you’ve never heard of it, which I find exceedingly unlikely, then you’re in for a literal treat. It’s a sweet, buttery toffee that’s easy to make and hard to stop eating. I’ve been making it every holiday season for decades now, and I don’t ever see that changing. Throughout my children’s childhood, they looked forward to this snack as much as they did lights and presents when the holiday season rolled around. Now that I have grandkids, I continue the tradition, and although they’re young, Grandma’s Candy has already become a part of their core holiday experience. That’s why this recipe is so great, it’s an easy way to make amazing memories as well as delicious flavors for the season.

Christmas Crack

Remember kids, crack is whack. Unless, of course, it’s rich, buttery, chocolate Christmas Crack. This delicious holiday toffee recipe is super easy to make and full of all the rich sweetness we love about holiday treats.

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This sweet and salty Chex mix bars recipe with Reese’s chocolate is sure to be a hit! Corn Chex cereal along with pretzel sticks, Reese’s® pieces, and mini peanut butter cups come together for a delicious, sweet, and salty Chex mix cereal bar treat you are sure to enjoy.

Chex Mix is one of my favorite snacks to make. It’s great for the kids after school, it’s an excellent snack for movie night, and it’s the perfect recipe to make in a huge double or triple batch for any gathering. I’ve been making it for years because everyone loves it so much. This version has become one of my favorites. It’s sweet, salty, and loaded with my favorite flavor – peanut butter!

Sweet and Salty Chex Mix Bars

This Chex mix bars recipe is exactly how it’s described in its name – sweet and salty, with an emphasis on the sweet. Corn Chex and pretzel sticks are combined with Reese’s Pieces, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, peanut butter, and mini marshmallows to create a sweet and salty peanut butter and chocolate dream that you’ll never want to stop eating. You’ll want to save it all for yourself, but try to make yourself share it with family and friends.

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This Easter Muddy Buddy Mix is an easy and delicious snack recipe, also known as Bunny Chow. Made with Chex® cereal, chocolate, peanut butter, powdered sugar, and lots of different types of Easter candy. And, it is a fun dessert for the kids to help make.

Muddy Buddy mix is one of my favorite sweet treats to make for any occasion. It’s so easy and so full of delicious flavor and also so much fun to play around with! I’ve been making it for years, and in that time, I’ve served it at holiday get-togethers, potlucks, birthday parties, and even just kept it on hand for after-school snacks when my kids were in school. They and their friends always ate it all in a matter of a couple of days, so I’ve pretty much mastered this dish. Although being as easy as it is, it really didn’t take much to get it down perfectly.

Easter Muddy Buddy Mix

Lots of things are associated with Easter. Chocolate bunnies, Cadbury Creme Eggs, colorful candies, baskets, and the like are all part and parcel of the Easter season. The thing that I associate with the holiday more than any of those – almost as much as family – is sweet treats.

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This delicious Valentine puppy chow mix features the classic chocolate, peanut butter, and Chex cereal combination with Valentine theme candies and pretzels. The perfect Valentine’s day treat for parties, potlucks, or as an afternoon snack.

Puppy chow is one of my favorite snacks to make because it’s so easy and tastes so good. Oh, sure. I enjoy making fancy cakes and cupcakes along with pies and a host of other sweets, but when I want a sweet treat that satisfies and feeds a crowd without having to be in the kitchen all day, I go for puppy chow mix. It’s a simple recipe that’s so sweetly delicious and so easy to play with by adding different ingredients that I can tailor it to any occasion or holiday season.

Valentine Puppy Chow Mix

This puppy chow mix is full of all the flavors we love in this classic snack, and it’s full of pretty pink and red colors. Every bite is filled with chocolate, peanut butter, powdered sugar, and a little something extra with the addition of Red Hots, Cinnamon Jelly Bellies, and more. It’s the perfect treat for that special someone. The cinnamon is a wonderful counterpoint to all the sweetness in this recipe, making for a treat that is just as visually interesting as it is interesting to for your tastebuds!

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This smooth and creamy, chocolaty, dark chocolate walnut fudge is super easy to make, only takes a few simple ingredients, and makes the perfect holiday treat.

Fudge is right up there with cookies when it comes to classic sweet treats, especially during the holiday season. I’m not sure how this tasty confection became so closely associated with the holidays, but I know that I and everyone else I know seems to reserve making it for holiday seasons. Honestly, I think that needs to change. Fudge is so good, I think it should be enjoyed all year long!

I’ve been making fudge for years. I make varieties for every holiday. This particular fudge is one of my favorites, and it’s why I’m thinking that I should start making it at other times of the year as well. This fudge is so rich and delicious, it really does deserve to be devoured any time of year!

Dark Chocolate Walnut Fudge

If you love chocolate, you won’t find a better fudge recipe than this one. Dark chocolate, mini marshmallows, and walnuts are the stars of the show here, and they play their parts very well. The rich, dark chocolate flavor combined with the earthy crunch of the walnuts and pure sweetness of the mini marshmallows makes for a smooth, creamy fudge that has a wonderfully complex flavor even if the recipe isn’t complex at all.

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White chocolate puppy chow, also known as muddy buddies, is a quick and easy recipe with white chocolate and powdered sugar-coated Chex cereal, mint chocolate candies, peppermint bark, chocolate chips, and pretzels.

Puppy chow, muddy buddies, reindeer chow, bunny chow – different places and different seasons have different names for this delicious treat, but whatever you call it, one thing’s for sure, this is a sweet snack mix that everyone always loves. I make puppy chow for all sorts of occasions, from potlucks to birthdays and of course, holiday get-togethers. I’ll bring big batches to events or wrap them in colorful tissue paper and place them in a decorative tin as presents. They’re always well-received and always devoured!

Holiday White Chocolate Puppy Chow

This puppy chow recipe is always a great treat, but I love to mix things up when the holidays roll around. In place of regular chocolate, I use white chocolate to make a beautiful white mix that I can add colorful additions to, creating a delicious, colorful holiday treat that is so perfect for the holidays. This sweet white chocolate mix coats Chex Mix cereal and is mixed with pretzels, holiday M&Ms, and peppermint bark.

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One of my favorite go-to cookie recipes are peanut butter cookie bites. We all have those cravings that come over us once in a while that can only be satisfied by chewy, creamy peanut butter. Peanut butter cookies fill that void nicely, especially when coupled with one of the best candies ever made: peanut butter cups.

If you are a peanut butter lover, you probably have the key ingredients to this recipe in your pantry. Whether or not you are accustomed to baking, I’ll fill you in on some of the tips and tricks that are unique to making peanut butter cookies. Let’s start with the basics.

How to Avoid Crumbly Peanut Butter Cookies

Among cookie types, peanut butter is one of the most popular yet very overlooked varieties. One of the drawbacks to peanut butter cookies is that they are usually very crumbly. Peanut butter is a strong flavor, which may also play into it’s lagging popularity, but it’s a flavor most people love, so it’s not likely to be somebody’s favorite cookie, but it is likely to be enjoyed by most peanut consuming people from time to time.

Also, cookies with peanut butter in them that are not traditional peanut butter cookies tend to be more popular and frequently enjoyed, which further demonstrates that the problem with peanut butter cookies is not the flavor but something else.

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This Homemade Maple Candied Pecans recipe is one that I’m very pleased to present to you. It is a wonderful introduction to candy making and candied nuts in general make such a perfect small treat. This is a very unique candied pecans recipe that I can’t wait to share because it delivers rich full flavor and it’s made with one of my all-time favorite nuts.

This unique recipe is a blend of a variety of techniques that yield different results. I especially love the formula I came up with and I consider these the best kind of candied pecans. These rich flavorful sweet nuts will keep you grabbing for more until you have to get back in the kitchen to make another batch.

Are Glazed and Candied Pecans the Same?

You may see the terms glazed and candied interchangeably used from time to time. However, there is an important distinction. Although some candied food items take on a glazed appearance, candied nuts and glazed nuts are actually two different types of food. Even though both types of nuts make for a sweet snack or dessert, candied nuts are made from different ingredients and yield different results.

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