Effortless No-Cook Christmas Candy Recipes

Prepare your chocolate chips for these seven straightforward chocolate-coated Christmas candy recipes. These delightful treats are crafted without the need for eggs, powdered sugar, cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, or frosting.

1. Chocolate Dipped Marshmallows

Ingredients: Marshmallows, chocolate chips, sprinkles or other candy toppings (optional)

Instructions: Melt chocolate chips in the microwave. Dip marshmallows in chocolate and sprinkle with toppings. Let cool until set.

2. Nut Cluster Candies

Ingredients: You can use various types of nuts for this recipe such as: pecans, walnuts, peanuts, pistachios, or your favorite mixed nuts. Chocolate chips

Instructions: Melt chocolate chips, mix in peanuts, and drop spoonfuls onto wax paper. Let cool until set.

3. 3-Ingredient Mounds Bars

Ingredients: Sweetened shredded coconut, milk chocolate or dark chocolate, coconut oil

Instructions: Mix coconut with a little coconut oil. Shape into bars, freeze until firm, then dip in melted chocolate.

4. 3-Ingredient Pecan Turtles

Ingredients: Pecans, soft caramels, chocolate wafers

Instructions: On a baking tray, assemble and arrange pecans in clusters to form turtle shapes, then add the caramel on top.

Melt Chocolate: Place chocolate wafers on top of the caramel and place the baking tray in a 350 degree oven for a few minutes until melted.

Cool and Set: Allow the turtles to cool completely before serving.

5. Chocolate Covered Maraschino Cherries

Ingredients: Maraschino cherries, chocolate chips

Instructions: Drain the maraschino cherries and dry them on paper towels. Then dip the cherries in melted chocolate. Place them on waxed paper and let them cool until set.

6. Buckeyes

Ingredients: Peanut butter, graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips

Instructions: Mix peanut butter and crumbs, form into balls, and dip in melted chocolate. Place the buckeyes on waxed paper. Let cool until set.

7. Christmas Crack

Ingredients: Saltine crackers or Ritz crackers, butter, light brown sugar, chocolate chips or crushed peppermint candies

Instructions: Layer the crackers on a baking sheet. Boil the butter and light brown sugar, pour over crackers, then top with chocolate chips or crushed peppermint candy. Let cool, then crack the candy into pieces.

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