Easy Homemade Sweets

[I Love Snow]

I'm making a wee sweetie hamper for my mum. Anyone got any easy sweet recipes? I've made peppermint creams and tablet I'm also going to make puff candy. Any other easy ones would be great..thanks

[Buenchico]

It occurred to me that the easiest recipes are often the ones that are promoted as being for kids to make (but that doesn't stop adults from using them too!). So I found this:
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipes/tag-5445/kids-sweet-recipes.aspx
(There are 45 recipes there to make big sugar-loving kids, like me, drool!).

[Jackdaw33]

I had to google puff candy. We called it cinder toffee.

[I Love Snow]

Thanks you two. Puff candy has loads of names up here in Ayrshire lol

[Sir Alec]

Lightly crush a packet of ratafia/amaretti biscuits, so that they're still in lumps. Add a good couple of handfuls of raisins and a couple of heaped tablespoons of mixed peel. Stir to mix well. Melt a large, (I think it's 200g), bar of plain or milk chocolate and pour onto the biscuit/fruit/peel mix. Stir till the mix is well covered in chocolate and put heaps onto greaseproof paper, or into bun cases. Leave till the chocolate has set. I invented these myself and (not to pat myself on the back too heavily),have had many compliments. I used to make them for Christmas, too, as the mixed peel gives them a tangy orange flavour.

[Ouzel]

You might find something here :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/homemade_sweets