Feed Your Inner Child With A Homemade Candy Recipe (PHOTOS)

If these don't delight your inner child, we don't know what will.

Need a new trick up your sleeve to delight your inner child? Or your real child, for that matter? We've got 20 homemade candy recipes that we think will do just that.

The beauty of a homemade candy recipe is that you dictate what goes into it. Are we advocating that you make healthy candy? Absolutely not (we're not MONSTERS), but making them yourself means that you can control the sweetness, flavor profiles and you'll know what to do in case of a shortage (stranger things have happened, remember the great Twinkie crisis of 2012?). You can make just about every candy you can think of from scratch. All it takes is imagination, a little patience and probably a candy thermometer. Let us know which ones you try!

1
Almond Joy Candy Bars
Kristin Rosenau/Food52
2
Homemade Mallo Cups
How Sweet It Is
3
Homemade Marshmallow Peeps
Lemon Sugar
4
Chocolate Swirl Cinnamon Marshmallows
Sarah Shatz/Food52
5
Homemade Cow Tales
Heather Baird
6
Old-Fashioned Gumdrops
Pip & Ebby
7
Pralines
Simply Recipes
8
Torrone Sardo (Sardinian Nougat)
Emiko/Food52
9
Homemade Valentine’s Day Mints
Emily Roemmich
10
Chubby Hubby Truffles
Brown Eyed Baker
11
Cinnamon Chocolate Owl Pops
The Domestic Rebel
12
Cotton Candy
Skyhorse Publishing
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13
Homemade Butterfinger Candy Bars
Buns In My Oven
14
Lemon Drop Candies
southernFATTY/Food52
15
Homemade Tootsie Rolls
Heather Baird
16
Spiced Cider Jellies
thirschfeld/Food52
17
Homemade Twix Bars
Kristin Rosenau/Food52
18
Salted Pumpkin Caramels
Sarah Shatz/Food52
19
Thai Peanut Butter Cups
James Ransom/Food52
20
Rock Candy
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