Old-Fashioned Christmas Candy

My favourite candy is old-fashioned, hard Christmas candy. It is packed with a multi-flavoured, medley, of Christmas past, present and future. When I was a child, enjoying this candy was more about the excitement of the days ahead and less about the actual candy. Mom always had the Christmas treats spread out, all through the month of December. She began to bake on the first day of and she would put out beautiful candy dishes filled with all kinds of different Christmas candies.

She made baked cookies, squares, and pies. We also had nuts, licorice (all sorts), and candy canes, of course. However, the treats I enjoyed most were the old-fashioned Christmas candies that she always put out first.

I could never eat just one. I would fill my cheeks full and enjoy the flavor explosion inside my mouth – cinnamon and clove with a peppermint flare. My hands and mouth would be stained and sticky from eating them. Each year was full of fun and memorable things, all attached to these Christmas candies and the memories they bring.

I still buy these candies every single year. I fill my cheeks full of old-fashioned Christmas cheer. The flavor takes me back to memories of the past, when Mom made Christmas a treat-filled blast.