Homemade Christmas Candies For Your Cookie Boxes

I know cookie boxes are a go-to for some people this time of the year. Who doesn’t love to get homemade sweets especially when they’re Christmas themed. I have some great filler candies to add to the mix for a pop of color and flavor. If you’re looking for a great filler cookie, my 5 cookies 1 dough recipe is always a hit!

Rock Candy

Broken pieces of homemade Christmas candies in red, orange, yellow, green, and purple arranged in rows by color, lightly dusted with powdered sugar—perfect for festive cookie boxes. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

Rock Candy is easy to make and looks fantastic in mason jars packed as gifts for family and friends. It’s a homemade hard candy recipe made with sugar, corn syrup, water and of course flavoring and food color!

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Peanut Butter Whiskey Balls

Five peanut butter balls partially dipped in chocolate are stacked on a white plate, perfect for homemade Christmas candies. They sit on a red surface with blurred treats in the background, ideal for Christmas cookie boxes. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

These Peanut Butter Whiskey Balls taste like a peanut butter ball with an addition of graham cracker crumbs and the warm, fuzzy feeling that your throat and tummy get when you’ve had a shot of whiskey.

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Homemade Christmas Gumdrops

Red, green, and yellow sugar-coated jelly candy cubes are shown in a close-up view, perfect for adding festive flair to cookie boxes or sharing as homemade Christmas candies. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

These Christmas Gumdrops are a homemade spiced gumdrop made with unflavored gelatin, peppermint extract, cinnamon oil, and more. They’re coated in a granulated sugar to give it the signature gumdrop crunch.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Crockpot Candy

Clusters of chocolate candy with peanuts, topped with festive red, white, and green sprinkles, are perfect for homemade Christmas candies or adding to cheerful Christmas cookie boxes. Arranged on a striped surface for a merry holiday touch. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

Chocolate Peanut Butter Crockpot Candy are delicious peanut clutters that are wrapped in creamy peanut butter, milk chocolate, and peanut butter chips. They’re made in the slow cooker and are scooped onto wax paper to harden.

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Divinity Candy

Old Fashioned Divinity Candy is a melt-in-your-mouth confection that’s so light and fluffy.

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Christmas Butter Mints

Red, green, and white round homemade Christmas candies with ridged tops are arranged on a white surface, with pieces of red and white string interspersed among them. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

These Christmas Butter Mints are loaded with butter, peppermint extract, powdered sugar, and half and half. This is such a velvety melt-in-your-mouth mint

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Saltine Cracker Candy

Three pieces of chocolate toffee bark with red, white, and green sprinkles are stacked on a white plate—perfect for adding to your cookie boxes or sharing as homemade Christmas candies. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

This Easy Saltine Cracker Candy or (Christmas Crack as some call it) has 5 simple ingredients plus the nonpareil sprinkles with homemade toffee, saltine crackers, and chocolate in it.

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Homemade Cherry Cordials

A hand holds a chocolate-covered candy with a white filling and a red cherry center, perfect for adding to cookie boxes or gifting as homemade Christmas candies. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

Homemade Cherry Cordials have a chocolate shell with sweet syrup and a maraschino cherry inside. The homemade fondant wrapped around the cherry melts as the juice of the cherry seeps out.

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Reindeer Food (Christmas Muddy Buddies)

A bowl filled with chocolate-covered cereal pieces dusted in powdered sugar, mixed with red and green Christmas Candies for a festive touch. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

Reindeer Food is a sweet and crunchy snack mix that has a chocolate peanut butter coated Chex mix, mini peanut butter cups, and Christmas M&Ms. It’s great to throw in mason jars or treat bags to give out at Christmas.

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Candied Pretzels

A bowl filled with small pretzels coated in a glistening cinnamon sugar mixture, perfect for adding to Christmas cookie boxes or gifting alongside homemade candies. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

These crunchy Candied Pretzels are a must-try if you love sweet and salty snacks. The pretzels are tossed in butter and a sugar mixture then baked to a caramelized perfection.

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Martha Washington Candy

A bowl containing Homemade Christmas candies—chocolate-coated treats with one cut open to reveal nuts and red fruit pieces—rests on a white napkin with a snowflake pattern, perfect for gifting or adding to festive cookie boxes. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

This Martha Washington Candy is an old fashioned candy that’s loaded with cherries, pecans, and coconut with a chocolate shell wrapped around it.

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Ritz Cracker Toffee

A stack of holiday-themed peppermint bark pieces with red, green, and white swirled chocolate and sprinkles sits on a white plate—perfect for adding to cookie boxes or sharing as homemade Christmas candies. — Image Credit: Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

Ritz Cracker Toffee or Ritz Cracker Candy has buttery Ritz crackers wrapped in a quick and easy homemade toffee and topped with red and green swirled white chocolate.

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Candied Pecans

Candied pecans are so easy to make from scratch, and they will fill your home with an incredible, mouth-watering aroma.

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Cannoli Cream Chocolate Truffles

Three chocolate-coated homemade candies, two cut open to reveal a cookie dough-like filling with chocolate chips, topped with chopped pistachios, perfect for gifting in Christmas cookie boxes on a silver plate. — Image Credit: SnappyGourmet.com

These Cannoli Cream Chocolate Truffles have a cannoli filling like the popular Italian pastry, cannoli chips and all of the other great flavors included in a cannoli.

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