Imagine making 2,400 candy canes by hand. The Sweenor family doesn't have to. The candy-making family does it every holiday season, the way Walter Sweenor did for this 70-plus-year-old business. They ...

Homemade candy at Christmas is a vanishing art often due to candy-thermometer fear or the strength needed to hand beat some recipes. Microwaves and electric mixers can change that. No more hot burners ...

UNION COUNTY, Pa. — Nothing says Christmas quite like a candy cane, and a store in Union County is making them all season long. It's the busy season at Purity Candy as people stop by the store near ...

Thankfully, my mother cooked from and kept her recipes and now I have them. I have inherited them all or at least all that my mother had tucked away in books, scribbled on the backs of envelopes and ...

Former broadcast journalist Stacey Marks Nectow founded Pure Sugar Candy, a handcrafted candy company that's gaining online popularity. The company utilizes social media, particularly TikTok, for ...

Black Friday is just another busy day at Martinsville Candy Kitchen. Owners John and Pam Badger are more focused on Dec. 24—the red- (and white) letter day each year when they hope their business ...