Homemade Chocolates, Sweets And Candies

When it comes to gifting, there’s nothing quite like homemade chocolates, sweets and candies. Here you’ll find plenty of confectionary recipes so that you can make the perfect sweet gift for any occasion.

There’s something rather exciting about the first of the month. You never quite know what the next 30 days will bring. Today, on 1 March, St David’s Day, it has brought snow, lots of it. Quite unusual in this part of the country.

It also brings a treasure trove of chocolate recipes and gorgeous photos to get us all in the mood for some serious chocolate action. If you’re snowed in like we are, here’s the perfect antidote to cabin fever.

Homemade Chocolates, Sweets And Candies

We kick things off here with homemade chocolate inside a homemade box of chocolates cake.

Box Of Chocolates Cake

There’s only one thing better than a box of chocolates and that’s a box of chocolates inside a cake. This beautifully executed Box of Chocolates Cake was from Only Crumbs Remain. Sadly the recipe and post no longer exist, but I had to leave it here as it’s such a good idea. Both the chocolates and jam are homemade too.

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate truffles are probably the easiest chocolates to make. It’s mostly a case of melting chocolate with hot cream and stirring. You can flavour them with just about anything and coat them with melted chocolate, cocoa, icing sugar or any number of other things. What’s more everyone loves them.

Easy Coffee Truffles

Leave your ganache in a tin to set, then you can easily cut it into squares or rectangles. No messy rolling into balls required. These dreamy coffee truffles, here on Tin and Thyme are dusted with cocoa powder. They make perfect gifts.

Fruit & Nut Truffle Bites

These vegan fruit and nut chocolate truffles look so good, but when I found out the ingredients I was positively drooling. I’ll let you find out what’s in them over at Gluterama.

Vegan Gingerbread Chocolate Truffles

With the festive season well underway, these vegan gingerbread truffles make excellent last minute gifts for any ginger lover. You don’t need a lot of hands-on time and virtually no cooking is required, just a bit of heating in a pan.

Vegan Raspberry Chocolate Truffles

We have more vegan truffles from Nico at Yumsome. This time they come in the form of these scrumptious raspberry chocolate truffles which are made with cashew nuts.

Dark Chocolate Whisky Truffles

My contribution to these chocolate recipes are these rather luscious whisky truffles with dark chocolate and fresh cream.

Japanese Chocolate Truffles

These Japanese chocolate truffles from Pebble Soup sound intriguing and just the sort of thing I like to try – pickled sushi ginger, wasabi furikake  and yuzu.

Chocolates

Mint Chocolates

Everyone loves mint chocolates. They’re the classic after dinner treat. Indulgent, yet refreshing. The recipe for these mint chocolates is on Tin and Thyme.

Fruit & Nut Chocolate Shards

These sumptuous fruit and nut chocolate shards with popping candy from Galina at Chez Maximka were a fitting tribute to National Chocolate Week.

Chocolate Nutella Caramel Cups

Many thanks to Johanna at Green Gourmet Giraffe for these six years of We Should Cocoa celebratory chocolate nutella caramel cups.

Chocolate Marmite Caramel Fudge

Shaheen, over at A Seasonal Veg Table has gone for something slightly different. Yes, it’s a sweet sticky buttery chocolatey February delight, but it’s made with a sur

Raspberry Cream White Chocolates

We have homemade raspberry cream white chocolates from Only Crumbs Remain. Not only do they sound delicious, but they look so professional too.

Chocolate Fudge And Caramel

Chilli Chocolate Fudge

This one is for chilli lovers, although you could of course just leave the hot stuff out. Rich and creamy, this recipe for chilli chocolate fudge, here on Tin and Thyme, is pure delight.

Easy Chocolate Fudge

easy chocolate fudge from Recipes Made Easy

Sweet Potato Fudge With Cacao Nibs 

For a slightly healthier but equally pretty treat, we have vegan sweet potato fudge with cacao nibs from A2K – A Seasonal Veg Table.

Chocolate Nut Butter Caramels

chocolate caramels with nut butter from Lavender and Lime

Keep in Touch

And hear ends our collection of homemade chocolates, sweets and candies for Christmas or any other time. We do hope you’ve found something you really want to make.

Thank you for visiting Tin and Thyme. If you make any of these recipes, I’d love to hear about it in the comments below. Do you have a favourite chocolate that you like to make?

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For more Christmas chocolate recipe collections, try this one for festive chocolate recipes, this one for boozy chocolate recipes, this one for chocolate orange recipes, this one for chocolate and date recipes and this one for chocolate cinnamon recipes.

If you’d like even more recipes for chocolates, sweets and candies, follow the link and you’ll find I have quite a lot of them. All delicious and nutritious, of course.

Choclette x

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Homemade Chocolates, Sweets And Candies: Update November 2024

I originally published this post as a collection of homemade chocolate recipes for We Should Cocoa. Now I’ve updated it to make it more useful. I’ve removed dead recipes, improved images, added titles, more information and some new recipes.