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Homemade Candy Recipes and Fudge Recipes - A round up of homemade candy recipes, bark recipes, and fudge recipes. Candies make lovely gifts at the holidays.

30 Homemade Candy Recipes

November 1, 2015 by Alea Milham 10 Comments

Many of our friends and family have everything they could possibly need, so I enjoy giving consumable gifts. I give homemade jams, breads, cookies, applesauce, and of course candies. Candies are popular with just about everyone and they have the added benefit of the “wow factor” because people mistakenly think they are hard to make.Read More

2 Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Recipe- With just 2 ingredients, this fudge recipe is so simple to make. It has double the chocolate flavor with half the work!

2 Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Recipe

October 31, 2015 by Ann 5 Comments

Everyone loves fudge, and with holiday baking this year you can add this simple 2 Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Recipe for an amazing treat with little effort.  Simple chocolate candies are always a favorite in our house.  With so many options for fudge recipes, it can be overwhelming, but this recipe takes all the guesswork out ofRead More

30 leftover Halloween candy recipes to use up your leftover Halloween candy

30 Leftover Halloween Candy Recipes

October 27, 2015 by Ann Leave a Comment

Halloween is right around the corner and before you know it you will be looking at a giant pile of leftover Halloween candy sitting on your counter. Here are some fabulous leftover Halloween candy recipes to keep you and the kiddos busy making some sweet treats until Thanksgiving. Don’t forget that most chocolate candy willRead More

Banana Cheesecake recipe with chococlate chips

Banana Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

October 26, 2015 by Alea Milham 4 Comments

This banana chocolate chip cheesecake recipe is perfect for banana lovers! I created this Banana Chocolate Chip Cheesecake as part of the Chiquita Cooking Lab Recipe Contest. I was given 3 ingredients to work with: Chiquita Bananas, Cream Cheese, and Chocolate Chips. I was allowed to use other ingredients of my choosing to create aRead More

Skillet Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookie Recipe

Skillet Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookie

October 26, 2015 by Ann 5 Comments

There is something about peanut butter and chocolate that makes such a happy marriage of flavors.  If your having a hard day and need a special treat you can eat right out of the pan, try this delicious recipe for Skillet Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk. Our family calls these giant cookies Pizookies, because they are largeRead More

Salted Caramel Rice Krispies With Pumpkin Fudge Topping- These rice krispie treats are divine. Pumpkin, caramel, and chocolate give them quite the makeover!

Salted Caramel Rice Krispies with Pumpkin Fudge Topping

October 21, 2015 by Ann 2 Comments

These Salted Caramel Rice Krispies with Pumpkin Fudge Topping are amazing!  What more could you ask for when you have all of these favorite items together in one place?  Rice Krispies are a childhood favorite, but the addition of some salted caramel, pumpkin, and chocolate make this recipe one that will have you fighting theRead More

homemade snickerdoodle fudge recipe

Homemade Snickerdoodle Fudge

October 19, 2015 by Alea Milham 8 Comments

This easy Snickerdoodle Fudge recipe is a Cinnamon Fudge topped with Cinnamon Sugar, and it’s even more delicious than snickerdoodle cookies! Snickerdoodles are my favorite cookie, so when I saw Snickerdoodle Fudge at a fudge shop I had to try it. I was disappointed in the store-bought fudge and decided that I needed to tryRead More

How to make Crisco frosting.

Crisco Frosting

October 9, 2015 by Alea Milham 88 Comments

Here is our classic white Crisco Frosting recipe, which is sometimes referred to as Vanilla Crisco Frosting. Did you know you can make frosting with Crisco shortening? It may sound weird, but it is true. Crisco frosting was quite popular in the 1960s and 1970s. It was an easy way to make icing when youRead More

Vanilla Depression Cake- This vanilla cake became famous during the depression when staples like milk and eggs were scarce. It is delicious and inexpensive.

Vanilla Depression Cake

October 8, 2015 by Ann 59 Comments

This vanilla depression cake recipe is sometimes called Crazy Cake because it is made without eggs, milk, or butter. This Vanilla Depression Cake is something that many will remember grandma making when they were a kid. This delicious cake is famous for being so easy to make during the Great Depression when things like milk,Read More

Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies-These cookies take a bit of preparation, but are a delicious and beautiful choice to create for your upcoming holiday events!

Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

October 1, 2015 by Ann 8 Comments

These Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies are adorable.  They are pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies coated in icing and then topped with elegant scrolls of orange icing. Everyone loves these Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies since they taste wonderful and look so beautiful.  Iced cookies aren’t as hard to make as you think, and this recipe will help you toRead More

These Oreo & White Chocolate Covered Apples are a great addition to your holiday treats table. They are easy to make, delicious for everyone to enjoy, and of course they display beautifully.

Oreo & White Chocolate Coated Apples

September 28, 2015 by Ann Leave a Comment

Do you love Oreos?  If so, then this fun and easy recipe for Oreo & White Chocolate Coated Apples is going to blow your mind.  How can you make an Oreo cookie healthy?  By adding it to an apple of course!  This is a fun recipe that will please everyone in your family including the kidsRead More

Mini Apple Pie Bites- These individual treats are a delicious way to enjoy apples this fall. Serve them as a dessert or toss one in your child's lunchbox.

Mini Apple Pie Bites

September 16, 2015 by Jody 3 Comments

These mini apple pie bites are topped with walnuts. Apples and cinnamon belong together in one of fall’s favorite desserts- Apple Pie. But you can make them something really special by topping the sweet, tender apples with walnuts that get deliciously toasted. Make it even better by creating little individual pies for your party orRead More

Rocky Road Cheerios Bars

September 4, 2015 by Alea Milham 10 Comments

This easy, no-bake recipe for Rocky Road Cheerios Bars makes a tasty treat or after-school snack.   These Rocky Road Cheerios Bars are a quick and easy no-bake cereal bar treat! This tasty snack is made with cheerios, chocolate chips, marshmallows, and nuts. I love that it doesn’t require any baking and it only needsRead More

Double Layer Cake with Pumpkin Frosting and Candy Corn Crumble- With pumpkin frosting and a candy corn crumble, this cake will become a new fall favorite!

Double Layer Cake with Pumpkin Frosting and Candy Corn Crumble

September 4, 2015 by D Durand Leave a Comment

We’re moving into autumn and with summer drawing to a close I am looking forward to a fall menu. So many of my favorite comfort foods are permanently etched into my memories of time spent around fall dining room tables. My mom loved treating us to Pumpkin Spice Cake, Pumpkin Cake (made just like carrotRead More

15 Caramel and Candied Apple Recipes

August 29, 2015 by Alea Milham 1 Comment

One of my favorite things about fall is picking apples! We have 2 apple trees, so we usually have bushels of apples each autumn. Apples are my favorite fruit; I never tire of eating freshly picked-apples. If you don’t grow your own apples, you can still enjoy the fun by going apple picking with yourRead More

S'more Candy Apples

S’more Caramel Apples

August 26, 2015 by Ann 8 Comments

Combine the fun of caramel apples with the great taste of S’mores in this unique S’more caramel apples recipe! ‘Tis the season for S’mores and it is almost the season for caramel apples so why not combine the two and make the kids (and grownups) really smile. S’more Caramel Apples Recipe Ingredients 4 Apples 4 BagsRead More

Sweet Potato Fudge Recipe - A quick and easy recipe for Sweet Potato Fudge. This fudge recipe is smooth and delicious! You can add pecans if you wish.

Sweet Potato Fudge

August 15, 2015 by Alea Milham 3 Comments

Try this delicious Sweet Potato Fudge recipe! A creative twist using sweet potato puree and Cinnamon Chips for extra flavor. You can also add chopped pecans to the sweet potato fudge if you wish. My Pumpkin Pie Fudge is very popular with my husband and kids. The other day I was going to make some pumpkinRead More

S'more Parfait Recipe

S’more Ice-Cream Parfait

August 13, 2015 by Ann 2 Comments

This recipe makes 2 delicious S’more Parfaits. Double, triple, or quadruple it if you are feed a crowd. Ingredients: 1 Pint Ice Cream, Vanilla 2 Bananas, Sliced 15-20 Mini Marshmallows 4 Graham Crackers, Pulsed in a food processor, and 4 Graham cracker quarters toasted 1/3 Cup of Mini Chocolate Chips 4 Large Marshmallows 2 tbspRead More

How to Make a Peach and Apple Cobbler

How to Make a Peach and Apple Cobbler

August 5, 2015 by D Durand 6 Comments

Who doesn’t like it when your favorite end of summer fruits play well together? For this yummylicious baking play date, the peaches and apples made fast friends in this beautiful double crusted cobbler. Growing up my mom always made the best peach cobbler, and this adaptation springs from those days of old. In part thisRead More

Dairy-Free Peaches and Cream Popsicles

Dairy-Free Peaches and Cream Popsicles

August 3, 2015 by Emily Leave a Comment

Homemade popsicles are simple to whip up for a yummy dessert or a cold treat on a hot day. You don’t need a lengthy list of ingredients or to load them with artificial sweeteners to keep kiddos on board. Grab any seasonal fruit you happen to have on hand and have fun experimenting with differentRead More

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Welcome. I'm Alea!

On Premeditated Leftovers I share simple recipes made with whole foods, practical shopping tips, time saving techniques, and meal planning strategies. I also share tips for minimizing food waste, so more of the food that is purchased ends up on the table.

While volunteering as a budget counselor, I realized that food is the element of most people’s budgets where they have the greatest control. I set out to develop low-cost recipes from scratch to prove it’s possible to create delicious meals on a limited budget. Eating well while spending less is about more than just creating recipes using inexpensive ingredients; it’s about creatively combining ingredients so you don’t feel deprived and are inspired to stick to your budget.

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