Homemade candy is a traditional Christmas gift that will never go out of style. Collected here are our best recipes for classic holiday candies including fudge, truffles, nut brittle, peppermint bark, and caramel corn.

White chocolate, peppermint oil, and a dozen candy canes are all you need to create this easy, colorful Christmas bark. This peppermint bark can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week.

This classic is a favorite among kids and adults alike and is great for holiday gift-giving. Package in cellophane bags or decorative tins for a pretty presentation.

These gemlike candies (popular in France, where they are known as "pate de fruits") are made with fruit juice and fruit preserves for an intense flavor. Use any combination you like, such as apple juice and apricot preserves, grape juice and jam, pomegranate juice and raspberry preserves, or strawberry-apple juice and strawberry jam.

Buttery toffee is cloaked in a layer of bittersweet chocolate and chopped hazelnuts. Package the toffee in button-closure envelopes and adhere chocolate and hazelnut flavor stamps.

Rich milk chocolate is studded with halved peppermint balls for a whimsical presentation. This bark can be made ahead and refrigerated up to three days.

Ganache made from bittersweet chocolate and cream forms the center of these easy truffles that can be rolled in a variety of coatings. Choose from confectioners' sugar, cocoa powder, toasted coconut, crushed candy canes, red and green candy sprinkles, or finely chopped almonds, pistachios, pecans, or other nuts.

This never-fail fudge recipe gets its smooth texture from the melted marshmallows that are blended with the cream, butter, and chocolate. Use your choice of semisweet, milk, or white chocolate chips to make this easy fudge. Cut into shapes using cookie cutters or just slice into squares, and top with crushed peppermint candies or toasted nuts.

This easy nut brittle gets an extra touch of richness from butter and vanilla extract. Use peanuts, pecans, cashews, hazelnuts, pistachios, or a combination of nuts in this recipe.

Brown sugar and vanilla and almond extracts flavor the caramel that coats the popcorn for this favorite holiday snack. Presented in a tin tied with a ribbon, this caramel corn makes a wonderful hostess gift.

Peanut butter, confectioners' sugar, and softened butter combine to form the creamy filling for these easy chocolate-peanut butter cups. Keep these in the freezer until you are ready to give them away.

This is the easy, foolproof fudge recipe you will return to year after year. Top the fudge with toasted walnuts, pecans, slivered almonds, or crushed candy canes.

Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, and a vanilla bean bring warm holiday flavor to this dressed-up caramel corn. Macadamia nuts are also included in the mix, but feel free to substitute pecans or almonds instead.

Basic marshmallows are made from egg whites, gelatin, and a hot sugar syrup. These marshmallows are cut into squares and dipped in a chocolate fudge coating made from semisweet chocolate, evaporated milk, butter, sugar, and homemade marshmallow cream.

This butterscotch-flavored fudge is made from brown sugar, butter, evaporated milk, and walnuts. An electric mixer is used to give the cooked fudge a light texture before it's poured into a pan to cool.

The chocolate ganache at the center of these truffles is infused with cardamom and orange peel. Roll the truffles in a different of coatings such as confectioners' sugar, cocoa powder, and assorted chopped nuts to create a variety of truffles perfect for giving as Christmas gifts.

These easy candy clusters are created by arranging toasted nuts and dried fruit on small pools of melted white chocolate. Use a combination of cashews, macadamia nuts, pecans, pistachios, or walnuts, and dried cranberries, apricots, pineapple, cherries, or raisins.

This easy version of chocolate-caramel turtles is made by pressing a square of purchased caramel candy and a chunk of chocolate over a pair of pecan halves and heating in the oven until soft. A dusting of finely chopped pecans is all the garnish these candies need.

Cocoa powder gives this traditional fudge recipe a light chocolate flavor. After it has cooked and partially cooled, the fudge is spread onto a clean work surface and kneaded with a spatula until it reaches the perfect texture.

This white chocolate bark gets a delightful crunch from puffed rice cereal. Crushed peppermint candies are pressed into the top of the bark to add a decorative Christmas touch.

These luscious caramels are made with cream, butter, and sweetened condensed milk. Their gloss comes from a touch of corn syrup. This recipe makes 150 candies -- enough to give as gifts and offer to holiday guests.

Drops of chocolate are coated with tiny candy sprinkles in this traditional Christmas candy recipe. Use all white sprinkles as pictured here, or a combination of red, green, white, silver, and gold.

Toasted pecan halves are covered in caramel flavored with vanilla and dark rum. The layer of bittersweet chocolate that coats the bottoms of the clusters provides the perfect balance for the sweetness of the caramel. To create charming gift boxes for these candies, simply follow our packaging how-to.

There is neither chocolate nor vanilla in this basic fudge recipe made from cream, sugar, and a little bit of corn syrup. Dress up the fudge with a topping of chocolate chips, crushed peppermint candies, chopped toffee, or toasted nuts if you like.

Whole almonds are lightly coated in cinnamon syrup, then covered in melted chocolate. Half of the chocolate-covered almonds are dusted in cocoa powder and half in confectioners' sugar to create a contrasting colors that look lovely side by side in a candy gift box.

Creamy peanut butter and white chocolate melted together form the rich filling for these easy chocolate-peanut butter cups. Semisweet or bittersweet chocolate surrounds the peanut butter filling in small candy cups, and chopped peanuts cover the tops.

Sugar and cream are boiled together to richly coat pecan halves. These pralines can be stored in an airtight container for up to three days.

A sweet and buttery cocoa syrup creates a crunchy coating for popcorn and toasted almonds. In place of the almonds, you could also use peanuts, cashews, pecans, or macadamia nuts.

This buttery brittle is filled with salted pistachios. Melted semisweet chocolate is spread over both sides of the brittle, and a layer of praline dust and chopped pistachios adds a sweet finish.

Semisweet chocolate chips, cream and mini marshmallows are the key ingredients in this easy fudge recipe. Crushed peppermint candies are mixed into the fudge, and whole peppermints decorate the top of each square.

Chopped nuts are arranged in small pools of melted chocolate to create attractive candies for Christmas gift-giving. This recipe gives instructions for tempering chocolate, a process of heating, partially cooling, and reheating that aligns the chocolate crystals so that the finished product is shiny and firm.

Bittersweet chocolate and white chocolate are marbled together to make a beautiful, easy holiday treat perfect for gift-giving. This chocolate bark is studded with salted peanuts; you may like to try pistachios, cashews, or dried cranberries.