Who Wants Candy?: A Fabulous Collection of Delicious Recipes for Homemade Candies and No-Bake Cookies

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Summary: Marry Me Toffee
Review: My Girlfriend bought the book and made the Marry Me Toffee recipe... she made it for me! It was fabulous I proposed the next day...

Great Book... Go Buy It and and make some candy....

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is a wonderful cookbook for all ages. It is great fun to make the more simple receipes with your children and to share the more challenging ones with your friends. How wonderful to keep alive the candy receipes of our mothers!

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Summary: If you like candy, you're going to love this one!
Review: To be perfectly honest, I thought that candy making was a lost art, or at least one on the verge of extinction. If so, then Jane Sharrock has definitely revived and resuscitated that art and brought it to a new generation. She has collected, tested, collated and preserved hundreds of recipes, and presents them with such a sense of joy and passion that it is impossible not to get caught up in her enthusiasm.

It would be difficult to imagine that there could be a stray candy recipe that has somehow managed to escape inclusion. You are sure to find some of your old family favorites, along with plenty of candidates for new family favorites, like "Marry Me Toffee", for example. Anyone who samples it invariably uses one word to describe the taste...."addictive!". It almost turned into "Divorce Me Toffee" when I took some along on a camping trip and my husband and I ended up trying to hide it from each other. Better make an extra batch of this one.

"Luscious Raspberry-Fudge Truffles" is another yummy creation. With ingredients like cream cheese and raspberry preserves, it is obviously not your "politically correct" truffle recipe.......but, who cares about politics when they are this easy to make and outrageously delicious!

A convenient feature of the book is that each recipe is assigned a skill level from super simple to advanced. Although I would have to rate my talents more towards the "super simple" end of the spectrum, I have on occasion ventured up to the "advanced" level recipe with surprising ease. Armed with a candy thermometer and the easy-to-follow directions, it is just one small leap from novice to expert.

"Who Wants Candy" is quite literally a walk down memory lane through fields of bonbons. It is a great collection of recipes and just a lot of fun to read.