Sally's Candy Addiction: Tasty Truffles, Fudges & Treats for Your Sweet-Tooth Fix (Volume 2)

by Sally McKenney

How sweet it is!

Simple ingredients come together to make indulgent and addicting candy!

Sally McKenney, creator and author of Sally's Baking Addiction, is back with a brand-new cookbook chock-full of a whole new host of treats for your sweet-tooth fix. If you're a candy and sweets lover, then look no further. Complete with over 75 brand new recipes, indulge in truffles, fudge, caramels, and marshmallows. And if you like Oreos, Reese's, Snickers, or other candy bar favorites, Sally will show you the best ways to incorporate these into cookies, cupcakes, bars, and more.

Complete with easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes, Sally's signature photography for every recipe, and snippets from Sally's own kitchen experiences, Sally's Candy Addiction has a recipe for every candy lover in your life.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

192 pages, Hardcover

First published August 10, 2015

Reviews

[Kathy K. · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a baker who has made several recipes from Sally's blog, all of them wonderful, I could not resist this book. Some classics (marshmallows, pralines, a variety of chocolate truffles), more difficult sweets like caramels and toffees, and a chapter on baked goods that use or are inspired by candy - the mint chocolate cream pie sounds amazing. This book is perfect for a novice candymaker (like me) who is as nervous about boiling sugar as she is enchanted by it.

[Miss Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars
The solution to your sweet cravings complete with photos for every recipe.

Some are a bit too much work for me and buying the candy is much less hassle, but others are both simple and quick and they are my favorite, especially the toffee and candied nuts.

Southern-Style Pecan Pralines
Chocolate Chip Cookie Back
Mint Truffles
Chai Tea Latte Truffles
Caramel for Dipping
Chewy Cream Caramels
Salted English Toffee
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Toffee
Pumpkin Spice Toffee
Candied Nuts
Twix Caramel Fudge
Snicker's Cheesecake
Mint Chocolate Cream Pie
Butterfinger Scotcheroos

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've always been scared to try making candy, but if there's any candy-making book that I would trust it would be from Sally's Baking Addiction. Sally McKenney does a great job of starting the book off with tools, tips, and techniques that are helpful when making candy. The recipes that I've tried from this book so far have turned out very well. My personal favorites so far are the Strawberry Buttercreams and the Caramel Dipping Sauce. I would highly recommend this cookbook to anyone looking to try candy-making or for those who are already adept candy makers!

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I ended up purchasing this book after checking it out from the library. Delicious looking treats with normal ingredients and easy to follow instructions, along with some helpful tips I had never thought of/heard about before. Looking forward to trying many of the recipes during the upcoming holiday baking season.

[BRNTerri · Rating 3 out of 5]

THINGS I'VE MADE:

ULTIMATE PEANUT BUTTER BROWNIES



This is a chocolate brownie with peanut butter 'filling' that I used as frosting. It's supposed to have a layer of chocolate frosting on top of the peanut butter filling with chopped Reese's Pieces on top of that, but I left those two off. The batter has both melted semi-sweet chocolate and a little unsweetened cocoa powder. They're bitter and wet-looking, not at all like Sally's photo of them. I made half the recipe in an 8" square foil lined pan and baked for 22 minutes. The filling/frosting is very good but needed more milk to make it creamier, but the brownies themselves aren't good at all. I'd never make these again.

COCONUT CANDY BARS



You're supposed to chill the mixture, cut it into tiny rectangles, and dip each one into melted chocolate. As you can see I made balls out of this candy instead. I think I got 46. These are made from sweetened condensed milk, a whole bag of sweetened coconut, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and salt. After mixing this up by hand (you can't use a mixer for this) I was very worried and almost threw it in the trash because it was so dense and sticky and unlike anything I'd ever worked with before.

I added one more cup of powdered sugar (3c. total), almond extract (3/8t.), and ground lightly toasted almonds. After pressing the mixture into a lined square pan and chilling it for a short time I decided to roll the mixture into balls. I quick-chilled the balls in the freezer on a wax paper-lined baking sheet, just until the mixture was firm enough to be dipped into melted chocolate. My balls flattened because the dough wasn't firm enough, but that's fine. When I make candy like this, such as peanut butter balls, I stick a toothpick in each ball for easy dipping. You don't need to mess with dipping the candy with two forks. I always use milk chocolate chips melted with paraffin wax.* The wax thins the chocolate, making it much easier to work with. The chocolate/wax mixture, when you dip something in it, will run off almost like water.

This is a really good recipe. Next time I'll chill the mixture in the mixing bowl for one hour, roll it into balls, chill those for another hour in the fridge or for 20 minutes in the freezer, then dip them in chocolate.

* Gulf Wax is a brand of paraffin wax. It's sold in a 16 oz. box and can be found in the baking isle of your grocery store. It has four 4 oz. blocks inside. You'll need half (2 oz.) of one block per 11.5-12 oz. bag of chocolate chips of your choice.

Chop the wax finely, add it, along with the chocolate, to a small bowl so you can melt it using the double boiler method. Sit the small bowl on top of a small pot, 1 qt. size if you have one, that's filled with 1" of simmering water. The bowl that's on top shouldn't touch the water beneath it. Keep stirring the wax/chocolate mixture until all the wax has melted. This could take ten minutes or so. I then pour the mixture into a very small (13 oz.), deep bowl (don't use a shallow bowl) and dip my candy into that. I also stick the toothpick into the side of the very cold candy because it'll leave a small hole when you remove it and the hole looks better on the side of the candy than on the top. Cover any remaining chocolate tightly and store in refrigerator. It will probably keep for a few months. To reuse, uncover and melt in the microwave.



MY THOUGHTS: Only one of the two recipes I tried turned out. There's a good variety of sweets in the book, mostly fudge and truffles, but not much that interests me. Some of the recipes are just variations on another recipe in the book. I'm pretty disappointed in this book but I may fiddle with a couple more recipes in the future.

I received this from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

More recipes to save than I thought there'd be! Not big on candy making.

[Nasty Lady MJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another winner. Did the peanut butter blossoms last night and they were pretty much idiot proofed.

[Angelika · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nutella Truffles, easy fudge,

[Mckinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of variety.

[Chocolate.Panda&83 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book

[DeMilya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tried the truffles recipe, and it was wonderful! I have to get the white chocolate ones down next. The cake pop turned out great as well.

[Carol Austin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Candy Ideas

I like a lot of these recipes. I will be trying several of these for my family this month and next.

[Betzaroni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Candy Book

Love it and can’t wait to try some of the recipes but also looking forward to trying something different this holiday season!

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is going to give me cavities!

I had never made candy before reading Sally's Candy Addiction. It seemed too intimidating! While every recipe in the book looks amazing, I decided to get into the fall mood and make Pumpkin Spice Toffee right away. I'm not going to lie - my first batch was not very good! I made the mistake of skipping right to the recipe, ignoring all of Sally's helpful hints that preceded the instructions (don't make my mistake! Read Sally's tips first!) Before attempting the recipe again, I read Sally's instructional chapters, reread the recipe, and took my time. The second batch of toffee was uh-mazing! My husband and I ate all of it within one week. When I made another batch for my sister's birthday party, it was completely devoured within hours - that toffee is addicting!

After making the toffee, I tackled a classic chocolate fudge. It was soo creamy and delicous. I can't wait to try out the birthday cake fudge next - it looks so yummy in the photos!

Many of these recipes are more difficult than most of Sally's blog recipes - candy requires careful attention to temperature and timing. I'd definitely recommend taking your time and being verrrry careful with these recipes, especially if you're new to candy making like me!

Sally also includes a chapter of "Just add candy" recipes, where you add store bought candy to baked treats - perfect if you want to make something quickly, instead of starting from scratch :)

[Nikki · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm new to candy-making and made Sally's Simply Chocolate Truffles. They are delicious. I had a little difficulty coating the ganache in the melted chocolate because the two wanted to melt together, but that may have been because I used chocolate chips instead of the recommended bar chocolate. I took the "Sally Says" tip and made semi-sweet and dark chocolate truffles, both were great.

There are color pictures of every recipe, which is helpful and mouthwatering. I like that this book also has recipes geared towards bakers who like to use candy, like me. I am dying to try the Mint Chocolate Cream Pie, and am planning to make the Candy Apples this fall.

[Mr Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

This recipe book is one of my favorites already. There are pictures of each recipe, complete instructions with helpful hints for candy making from novice to seasoned candy maker so every recipe can be reproduced with fine results. The coconut candy bars remind me of the coconut bon bons that used to be a Christmas treat every year during the holiday season that just seemed to fade off of store shelves years ago. Now we can incorporate them back into our Christmas traditions!

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many delicious-looking recipes in here! They're very easily explained (even though making a bunch of these are kinda next level), and I like the tone Sally writes in - really fun!
You've got american classics, chocolate-covered everything, truffles, caramel, toffee, brittle, nuts, fudge, baked goods you can add candy to and other sweet treats!
I will definitely try to make some of the recipes in this, but it's gonna be hard to choose what to make first!

[Jean · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just got my copy in the mail today, so I haven't actually tried any of the recipes yet, but they look like they vary in difficulty, so there might be some that I can do and work my way up to the harder stuff. The pictures are gorgeous, and I'm definitely excited to try a lot of these recipes!

I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

[Ranishia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love my sweets, as a self taught baker I love to look for inspiration and ideas from different sources. And I love Sally's Addictions, I enjoys her cupcakes, candies and all. I am a fan of the cups measurements whereas some of her measures are not, but that is something that is easily tackable so I am not complaining. The recipes are on spot and great, moist, and delicious.

[Deb Shambrook · Rating 5 out of 5]

All of the recipes looked delicious.