From the category archives:

Candy

Homemade Candy Week: Chocolate Snowswirl Fudge

December 18, 2010

It was a quiet afternoon last year on the Delaware Coast in Bethany Beach – just after Labor Day so most of the summer folks had returned home for the season. My husband and I and a few of our friends had just polished off some amazing soft-shell crab sandwiches (with plenty of Old Bay!) [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

Homemade Candy Week: Milk Chocolate Truffles

December 14, 2010

I received the loveliest holiday gift yesterday from a good friend of mine. She knows how much my husband and I enjoy her fabulous smoked paprika-rubbed roast chicken so she typed up and printed out the recipe on a nice card (complete with cute little seahorse cutouts) and attached it with ribbon to a jar [...]

11 comments Read the full article →

Homemade Candy Week: Pecan & Caramel Chocolate Clusters

December 13, 2010

Welcome to Homemade Candy Week on Cooking On the Side! I had a blast last weekend trying out recipes for several sweet indulgences and I’m excited to share them with you. Alternatively, I could have deemed this “Chocolate Week” as we’ve got chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate. I figured most of you would be pretty [...]

13 comments Read the full article →

Sea-Salted Smoky Almond Chocolate Bark

May 5, 2010

I’m secretly hoping that this will be the year the homemade Mother’s Day gifts start coming. Aren’t they sort of a rite of passage? Our school classrooms would turn into little workshops this time of year, turning out everything from tissue paper flowers to ceramic ashtrays (Did we seriously make those? I am really dating [...]

11 comments Read the full article →

Toffee

December 3, 2009

Ever since my sister was in the Camp Fire Girls in first grade and had to sell Almond Roca for their fundraiser I’ve been in love with toffee. I find that buttery crunch to be positively addictive – my hand just keeps grabbing for another “little piece”. At least with Almond Roca there’s that gold [...]