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A great way to save money each holiday season is to give homemade candy. I have received homemade candies as gifts and I always love it when I do. It gives me a chance to try new candies and appreciate the fact that the giver spent time on me! How thoughtful! I have also given homemade candies as gifts and found it to be a fun tradition.

With all the following packaging ideas, be sure your candies have cooled first before packing them. If you don't, they will stick together and become a mess. As a bonus, include the recipe. Write it out on a pretty recipe card, or print from the computer and include with the candies. Be sure to include a note with the recipe that it is the recipe for the candies you gave them whatever year it is.

There are many ways to present candies as gifts, a couple I'll mention here. One way is to save coffee cans large or small; clean them, decorate them (if you wish), line them with wax paper, then fill with fresh cooled candy. You can decorate the coffee cans with a coat of spay paint and holiday stencils, or wrap it with wrapping paper. Just use your imagination or search the Internet for ideas.

Another great container for candies is a tin that previously held something else such as tea, purchased cookies or candies, etc. You may have some already, but if not, thrift stores have abundance of them (many are decorative) for very reasonable prices. Clean first of course, then line with wax paper and fill with cooled fresh candy. These are great because there's a variety of sizes that will suit your giving needs and if you look for decorative ones, you will not need to do any decorating yourself... Just add a bow and voila!

Pretty plastic holiday plates will also work. Just neatly present the candy, cover with colored plastic wrap and top with a bow.

Here's a delicious candy recipe to get you started:

Buckeye Balls

24 ounces powdered sugar
16 ounces crunchy peanut butter
1-cup butter or margarine -- softened
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
1 tablespoon shortening

Position knife blade in food processor. Add half each of powdered sugar, peanut butter, and
butter; top with cover. Process until thoroughly mixed. Shape into 1-inch balls. Repeat process.
Combine chocolate and shortening in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat
to low; simmer until chocolate melts. Dip each ball in chocolate until partially coated; place
on waxed paper until chocolate hardens. Store in airtight container in refrigerator. Yield:
about 7-dozen (4 per serving).

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Christmas is a wonderful time, but finding great Christmas gifts can be a little difficult. Nevertheless everyone loves candy. Why don't you find some hot homemade candy recipes and make some great homemade candy for Christmas gifts this year?

With most Christmas gifts there is always the risk that the recipient won't like their gift. Nevertheless just about everyone loves candy, especially homemade candy, and it's not hard to make. You just need some good homemade candy recipes to get started, some simple tools and a little dedication and time.

There's so many great homemade candies you can make. I'm getting hungry just thinking of things like chocolate peanut butter candy, corn balls, cream candies, chocolate fudge, candy corn and so many more. You can find recipes for homemade candy for hundreds of different candy's, and most of them aren't all that hard to make.

Butterscotch, nut brittle, candy apples, angel food candy and so much more, all are relatively simple to make.

There's some absolutely wonderful hard candies or mold candies you can make yourself without too much practice.

And in my view a gift of homemade food is a gift from the heart. It's so easy to go to a candy shop and just buy some candy, ask them to wrap it and the jobs has done. Christmas gift purchased, nothing more to do. Nevertheless if you're prepared to spend some of your own precious time and put in the effort to make the candy yourself, that says something about how you feel about the recipient.

Homemade candy says I love you so much more than store bought candy, and can taste just as good, or better.

And there are very few people who dislike candy. It's so popular that if you make some homemade candy for a gift the chances are pretty high that the recipient will love it, and eat it happily. They may even decide to reverse the idea and make some candy for you next year.

Even if you haven't made candy before it's not that hard. Spend sometime on the net and you'll learn. You need sometime, some dedication to learning if it's your first time making candy, a kitchen and a few basic candy making tools.

Some recipes are a little more difficult than others. Any recipe that requires you to simmer water with sugar to a certain temperature can be a bit of a challenge for the beginner because, if you get the temperature wrong it won't work so well, but with a little practice you'll be making homemade candy like the pros.