{"id":9949,"date":"2014-12-12T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:36:44","slug":"staff-picks-nancys-top-5-best-christmas-candies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2014\/12\/12\/staff-picks-nancys-top-5-best-christmas-candies\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks &#8211; Nancy&#8217;s Top 5 BEST Christmas Candies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5.) Peanut Brittle:<\/strong> I know, love it or hate it. \u00a0I love it.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joyofbaking.com\/candy\/PeanutBrittle.html\">The best is homemade<\/a>.\u00a0 I have a dear friend who makes it in the microwave and if I whine enough, she\u2019ll make a batch just for me.\u00a0 If my husband is nice to me, I share it with him.\u00a0\u00a0 I must master making it myself as whining and not sharing is so unbecoming at Christmas time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Divinity_(confectionery)\">Divinity<\/a>:<\/strong> Speaking of divine, the perfect, old fashioned candy.\u00a0 I don\u2019t buy it, I make it both plain and with a chocolate twist.\u00a0 Every Christmas, I dig out my candy thermometer and whip up several batches of the sweet confection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.) Dark chocolate caramel Santas by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellstover.com\/jump.jsp?itemID=3729&amp;itemType=PRODUCT\">Russell Stover<\/a>. <\/strong>I fell in love with Russell Stover candy in my college years in the 1980s.\u00a0 The combination of dark chocolate and caramel is just divine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.) Anything by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hammondscandies.com\/\">Hammond Candies<\/a> out of Denver, CO.<\/strong>\u00a0 Hammond\u2019s makes candy canes and other holiday candy in small, hand-crafted batches.\u00a0 Simply the best candy canes and ribbon candy ever.\u00a0 Here in IL, I see Hammonds at Whole Foods and Target.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.) M&amp;Ms mint candies. <\/strong>\u00a0The best, I mean the best.\u00a0 What more could a mint-chocolate fan ask for?\u00a0\u00a0 Usually only available at this time of year.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been known to stock up and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mms.com\/Resources\/img\/im-mint-chocolate-candies.png\">put bags in the freezer<\/a> to stay fresh when I need a fix during the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5.) Peanut Brittle: I know, love it or hate it. \u00a0I love it.\u00a0 The best is homemade.\u00a0 I have a dear friend who makes it in the microwave and if I whine enough, she\u2019ll make a batch just for me.\u00a0 If my husband is nice to me, I share it with him.\u00a0\u00a0 I must master [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":10015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1,5016],"tags":[5024,208,5019,5025],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10014,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions\/10014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}