What kind of candy is traditional for your holidays?

Growing up, baking and making the Christmas candies was a big deal. It is one that I have chosen NOT to do with my own family, for a couple of reasons. First of all, I usually didn't have the money or the time to do all the baking. Once in a while, my 4 sisters and my sister-in-law, and I, would get together and bake on a Sat and then all have many different things to take home for our families. I also realized that if I baked so much, it would be sitting there for me to eat, and I didn't need it. My oldest sister has carried on the tradition, but not on as great a scale as my mother did. To list a few, we made chocolate chip cookies, spiders (chow mein noodles with chocolate/peanut butter/nuts, etc), peanut butter cookies, fudge, potato candy (made with a boiled white potato, powdered sugar and peanut butter), jello cake, poppy seed cake and much more. Mom also always had ribbon candy, peanut shaped candy with peanut butter in it and raspberry shaped candy.

We have alot of chocolates. for Christmas there are cand canes and old fashioned hard candy. I love my truffles which have no certain holiday. I have a real addiction to those. Past holidays we had chocolates that had different flavored insides and chocolate covered.

It is gelt! Gelt means money. So for Hanukkah, there a round, milk chocolate candy that comes in gold paper . It looks like coins.

hi where I was growing up as a kid it was homemade fudge, divinty, and gum drops and licorce.for me it had to be licorce always. Also we always made peanut brittle too and peanut butter fudge that had to be homemade of course. and fruit cake never wss Christmas without fruitcake. Oh my I am all of a sudden sick to mytummy .got to go.

There is a huge list of goodies that we make specially for Christmas and they are never seen around any other time. Of them I could place jujups, marshmallows, guava cheese, marzipan under the candy category.

My favourite is eye candy and with you around I am guaranteed plenty of it. That aside, I love anything chocolatey. Do you like nuts covered in chocolate? I do. And you can't beat a soft centre to stick your tongue into. I am just salivating at the thought. mmmmmm

Our Aussie traditions mostly come from England . At Christmas time it's White Christmas made with dried fruit icing sugar and copha, rum balls, these are chocolate cake, rum and coconut balls, candied fruit. Candy canes and chocolate are now becoming popular. We love toffees and nuts too. I'm sure I've forgotten something. I'm hungry now...better have lunch as it's after 2pm.

I do not care for candy canes, so we rarely ever have them in the house. I am a huge chocolate fan! I actually made truffles for the first time this year and they are good, but very rich! I think that I have chocolates for everyone's stockings and I am sure that I will have a box of chocolates under the tree.

Fudge!!!!!!!! That is the big one around here! My sister makes some that is totally awesome! I don't make alot of candy. I did make sweet breads and cookies. But no one can beat my sisters fudge!

Candy canes and peanut butter fudge and peanut brittle are always candies that my household is filled with at this time of the year. We are big chocolate eaters as well but we all seem to have our own little favorites at holiday time.

We've never been into candies during the holidays. Even when I was young. I think it had something to do with me having really crooked teeth, and my parents attributing it to candies. But if you talk about chocolates, then that's something we have a lot every Christmas. A combination of us buying it on sale, and some people giving us chocolates.

Candies? I couldnt be away Hi JenInTN Here at my place there are not that many varieties available. The best (my favorite) are the jelly kind of that my wifey gets for me from Kolkata. I prefer these because of the Jelly thing which kind of stays back for long in the mouth... They have limited flavors - pineapples, apple and mango flavors and there is one which is blue colored (not sure what it tastes like... difficult to describe). Recently, I tried a small recipe I read on the Internet but... I consumed that entire concoction before it could dry or freeze or harden into a candie or chocolate... I cannot resist my temptations for the choco flavors MERRY CHRISTMAS dear.

Ohhhhh Jen hope you had a great Christmas. I am slowly seeing some progress with playing catch up with notifications as I have battled a cold now for a week. LOL. You are welcome to join us here, I have gotten my husband some "normal" sugary cookies like these lovely gingerbread cookies and cinnamon stars and I got some diabetic friendly stuff as well so I dont sit there without. gingerbread is best.......

not all have to eat the candy holiday. but we can fill our holiday by doing something useful like reading or playing games

Well, if there arent any candies - there isnt a proper holiday for me. :D We usually eat chocolates. LOTS OF THEM. We also bake cakes and make pies for ourselfs, for family, for friends. We like to do a traditional cake/pie in our family, its called "tinginys". It's like chocolate based pie with small parts of cookies in it.