Elizabeth LaBau loves candy. Always has. Used to lug a pillowcase along on her childhood Halloween trick-or-treating treks. Now the new mom is busy encouraging others to have fun with candy-making in ...

As we approach Halloween, there will be much talk of making your own Snickers or DIY-ing candy corn. I usually leave that stuff alone, as the Snickers bar has already been perfected. If I’m going to ...

For those of us who don’t like to bake (yet still want to make sweets in the kitchen), lollipops are the perfect solution. The baking frenzy that begins in the fall can be subdued by making hard candy ...

(Christine used Starlight mints, green and red peppermint hard candies, gum drops, colored sugar and silver Dragees.) Put sugar, corn syrup and water into a medium sized pot. Do not disturb the sugar ...