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• Make Your Own Pocky
  

  Filed under: Snacks, Recipes, Candy

  
  
  There used to be good arguments for store-bought goods, but these days, someone seems to have found a DIY alternative for everything -- even Pocky! Hallelujah!
  
  Did you catch Not Quite Nigella's recipe for Homemade Pocky last month? I'm just glad that I'm finding this now, since I probably would've ballooned up and floated away from making and devouring piles of the snacks. Whip up the dough, cut, and cover 'em in your favorite flavors. Imagine the possibilities! I'm thinking some butterscotch (big surprise), maybe some toffee. Team these with a flavored hot cocoa and you have one delectable winter treat!
  



• Absinthe Mints
  

  Filed under: Snacks, Candy, New Products, Spirits, Halloween, Hanukkah, Christmas, Easter

  

  As you've likely been reminded during the last month, mint is unavoidable during the holidays. Everyone thinks you want a candy cane (and to be fair, many people do, and God bless them ev'ryone). If people think you're a southern cook (even when you're not), they are anxious for you to try their handcrafted julep, which makes you anxious to avoid having your face freeze in the chic grimace with which Rosalind Russell greeted those honey-based daiquiris in



• Stollen and Other Holiday Fruit Cakes
  

  Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Candy, Baking, Europe, Christmas, Winter

  
  When I think of this time of the year, I think about delicious sweet and fruity Stollen, a traditional German cake made with chopped candied fruit and dried fruit, nuts and spices. For the past 4 years now, I have been savoring this bread on Christmas.
  
  Ah, the variety of fruit cakes one can eat this time of the year! There is also the classic Italian panettone and panforte. Perhaps, less cake-like and bread-like than Stollen, panforte is made by dissolving suger in honey in a shallow pan with various...
  



• The Christmas Candy Book - Cookbook of the Day
  

  Filed under: Candy, Books, Cookbook of the Day, Celebrations, Hanukkah, Christmas, Winter

  As noted previously on Slashfood, there was a time when candymaking was an expected part of a homemaker's repertoire. The holidays evoke nostalgia, so is candymaking too far a taffy-stretch for December's annual kitchen marathons? Something's got to fill all of those stockings being hung by all of those chimneys with care, and handmade candy exudes charm and tastes good.

  Into this fray enters cookbook author Lou Seibert Pappas. Her Christmas Candy Book is a small but...
  




• Merry and Bright - Guide to Online Holiday Guides
  

  Filed under: Candy, Magazines, Lists, Comfort Food, Sugar, Celebrations, Holidays, Hanukkah, Christmas, Winter

  Okay, now it's serious: people who celebrate Christmas are officially down to T-Minus Two Weeks. If you haven't pre-ordered your turkey (or ham or crown roast or or dobosh torte or cheese ball or smoked salmon or fruitcake or pound bag of lentils or split of champagne) don't panic, there's still plenty of help online. While you're surfing online holiday guides, be sure to stop at the following for menus, recipes, inspiration, or just a fun, informative few...
  



• The top 5 weirdest Skittles videos
  

  Filed under: Candy, Television/Film

  
  *shudder*
  
  Did you know there's like, an insane amount of weird commercials about Skittles? Like, really weird? Sleep-with-a-nightlight weird?
  
  I watched them all for you. You can thank me later. For now, here are the top five. Find the videos for 2-5 after the jump!
  
  1. Skittle Feet (above)
  2. Pinata
  3. Death by Skittles
  4. Everything You Touch Turns Into Skittles
  5. Skittles vs. Singing Bunny

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  Wine, Dessert, Artificial Sugars, Candy, Champagne, High-fructose corn syrup, Holidays, Halloween, Fall
  
  If you're anything like me come October, you buy a big bag of Halloween candy, oh, three weeks before the actual holiday with the idea of "getting ahead"--only to have the entire bag mysteriously disappear, leaving you to explain to your significant other that it must have fallen into the cracks in the pantry. Or you're good, good, good until the day itself arrives, and ten minutes before the city's official trick-or-treating time starts, you're tearing over to the grocery to pick through...
  



• What does the National Confectioners Association do for Halloween?
  

  Filed under: Candy, Halloween

  
  
  The National Confectioners Association lives in a world of candy all year long. What do they do at the office to celebrate the day devoted to candy? I would expect much revelry and perhaps even the day off of work. There would be lots and lots of free candy for all employees - maybe even candy flying out of windows onto the streets!
  
  According to the Candy Dish Blog (the official blog of the National Confectioners Association), they have a pot luck lunch. I'm a bit disappointed with this news. However, at least someone brought in a cake laden with candy....
  



• Tip of the Day: Recycle Halloween Candy
  

  Filed under: Chocolate, Candy, Halloween, Tip of the Day, Fall

  When I was a kid, my parents let me and my brothers each keep seven pieces of Halloween candy (we could have one piece each day for a week), and my dad brought the rest to work. So that no child may ever suffer such a cruel fate again, here are some more innovative ways to deal with your post-Halloween candy surplus!

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  Permalink | Candy, Baking, Halloween
  We're almost to the night that brings mountains of candy and cavities -- whether you've got youngin's in the mix or just a few bags of tasty treats for visiting trick-or-treaters. The question becomes: What do you do with it all?
  
  Do you find a drawer you can lock and fill it with your bags of treats?
  
  Do you hide it throughout the home so that no one can find your stash and steal it?
  
  Do you put it out for everyone and share, without the slightest murmur of stinginess?
  
  Or do you succumb to the pressure of tons of candy...