Posts tagged: candy
Leftover Halloween Candy Conundrum SOLVED!
By DIY Maven
If you find that you over-bought or the trick-or-treaters are scant this year, here's some links that have you covered. First, cdkitchen has no less than 34 recipes that use left over Halloween candy as an ingredient. » READ MORE
Homemade Candy Corn Recipe.
By Chrisjob
Candy corn's the kinda thing that divides loved one's right down the middle. Either you hate it, or you love it. And like all good things, if you love it, you should make it. And like those very all good things, the homemade version tastes even better.
Ingredients
1 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup light corn syrup
1/3 cup salted butter
2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1/3 cup powdered milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
red and yellow food coloring
What's your favorite thing to do with candy corn. Me? I combines 'em with peanuts. Tastes just like a Payday.
Matchbook Love DIY.
By Chrisjob"I'm not so into heart shaped boxes of chocolates or a dozen red roses, but I'm very much into these little guys."
Today's the day. This project is perfect: it's handmade, it's sincere, and there's candy involved. Head over to Inchmark for a complete tutorial. You can totally rock six or seven of these in an hour. Just in time. :)
Happy Valentine's Day.
How To: Make Your Own Gummy Candy.
By Chrisjob"Bears and worms aren't very similar, until you think....gummy." -Demetri Martin, These Are Jokes
Yeah, but bears and worms are SO 1922...and 1981.
So, instead, make your own. SFHandyMan has provided a great detailed instructable on creating your own candies out of a DIY silicon mold. He's chosen Legos as his design, and its remarkable how finely sculpted the results are. The details are more defined than in commercial candies!
How To Make a Chocolate Facial.
By Chrisjob
With Valentine's Day and Easter over, the candy company's get to take a break until Halloween, with a brief resurgence for Mother's Day, perhaps. So, someone has to use all that chocolate, so it might as be you! This video tutorial from Reuters and Skindalous provides instructions for a DIY cacao face mask.
Ingredients:
1/3 cup cocoa powder
3 tbsp. heavy cream
2 tsp. cottage cheese
¼ cup honey
3 tsp. oatmeal
Mix
all ingredients together » READ MORE
Conversational Hearts of Despair
By DIY Maven
If you’re part of the dejected, Valentine-hating crowd, these conversational hearts were made for you. I especially like ‘DORK MAGNET, ‘NO FIX 4 DUMB’ and ‘U LEFT SEATUP’. These bitterly sweet sweets are available at despair.com for about 10 bucks a tin.
Valentine Cookie Pops.
By ChrisjobEverything's better when it's on a stick: Pillsbury offers this fun recipe to jazz up your Valentine's sugar cookies.
Ingredients:
1 package (18 oz) Pillsbury® Ready To Bake!™ refrigerated sugar cookies
20 flat wooden sticks with round ends
1 1/4 cups vanilla creamy ready-to-spread frosting (from 1-lb container)
Assorted small candies, or candy decors or nonpareils, if desired
10 yards red curling ribbon
Make a Peppermint Christmas Tree
By DIY Maven
This sweet Christmas tree was made with a Styrofoam cone, onto which peppermints were glued. Displayed on pillar candlesticks, they would make great table or mantle decorations. Very cute, and very easy! Via BHG.
Leftover Halloween candy? Don’t eat it, DRINK it!
By DIY Maven
Typical leftover Halloween candy options: One: you could eat it yourself and run the risk of chocolate overload. Two: you could take it into the office and let your co-workers go at it like lions on wildebeests. Or three: you could make some of these drinkable alternatives.
Kit Kat Bar Smoothie
1 cup chocolate milk
1 cup chocolate ice cream
2 Kit Kat bars, chopped
Combine milk and ice cream in a blender until smooth. Pour mixture into a bowl, cover a » READ MORE
The Worst Trick-Or-Treat Candy Ever?!?
By ChrisjobWhatcha think? Bit-O-Honeys are generally love or hate (mostly hate). Pennies are useless. And the dentist that gives out floss? Gee, thanks....
Full or Fun: Does size matter on Halloween?
By DIY Maven
In our neighborhood we're known as the house that gives out full-size candy bars on Halloween. Why? Because full-size is a rare trick-or-treat treat around here and the look on a kid’s face when I hand over a gargantuan Hershey bar is priceless. I also argue that the big ones aren’t much more expensive–if at all–than snack size as giving out the mini-bars generally requires handing out more than one to each kid. Also, those little chocolate-y tem » READ MORE
How to Make Candy Corn 'Fondant' Decorations
By DIY Maven
Have you heard the Curbly’s Candy Corn Challenge cut-off has been extended to October 29th?? In my continued effort to rally interest in this fabulous and profitable competition, I set my thinking cap straight and got to work fashioning something fashionable out of that quintessential Halloween confection. (Also, I didn’t want to be labeled ‘all talk and no action’ on the candy corn crafting front.) Anyway, here’s my idea for candy corn ‘fondan » READ MORE
How to Make Vegan Candy Corn.
By ChrisjobDesire to enter October's Curbly Challenge, but can't bear to use real candy corn, which contains gelatin?
Fret no longer. The Urban Housewife offers a vegan recipe, which uses vegan margarine and powdered soy milk for structure.
How To Make A Candy Corn Creature.
By ChrisjobInspired by October's Curbly Challenge, I decided I'd like a couple candy friends floating around this autumn. You should make some, too.
Materials
- Candy corn
- Paper clips
- Wire cutters and/or needlenose pliers
- Pen or marker
- Microwave (optional)
1. Select a prime piece of candy corn.
2. Give 'em a face. Mine is smiley, but yours doesn't have to be so glad. Invoke all your prime pumpkin-carving skills.
3. Use the paper clips to create arms and legs. Cut t » READ MORE
Make Skittles Vodka.
By ChrisjobI haven't eaten Skittles since the time I did so while spinning around in a barber chair for 30 minutes, after which they came back for a visit... I believe I was eight.
I'm pretty sure I won't get over my fear for this recipe either, but you should totally give it a try...
Gummi Bear Rug.
By ChrisjobMeet Simon. He's a rug, made of gummi bears. And to be honest, he kinda freaks me out. I think it's his 'claws.'
Simon is the work of LA and Taipei-based sculptor and installation artist Ya Ya Chou. Read more about Simon here, and then head to the candy store and create one of your own. Where you'll put it...? I don't know, but be careful! I don't imagine the candy or those creepy fingernails will survive the daily pound of your sneakers.
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