Crock Pot Candy-A soft Chocolate candy filled with peanuts and caramel, made in the crock pot!
When you need to make a lot of candy…for a party, or for gifts, this is the candy to make. There’s no wrong way to make it. You can use whatever chocolate chips you have on hand. It’s a great way to clean out your baking cabinet. For this batch I used milk chocolate, semi-sweet and dark chocolate. I also thought about throwing in some peanut butter chips but I wanted the caramel bits and wasn’t sure about the peanut butter and caramel.
You can also use any nuts. Peanuts, cashews, pecans, almonds, walnuts or a mixture. Making this for someone with nut allergies? The use broken pretzels, fritos or even a hard cereal like Chex. The key is to make sure the entire bottom of the crock pot is covered. Well. You do not want your chocolate touching the bottom. That’s how it burns. I might know something about this, so trust me. And if you want more crunch, use more than the 3 cups called for in the recipe.
There there are the stir ins. I went with caramel bits but you can use anything, M&Ms, Reeses pieces, Rice Krispies Cereal, broken oreo cookies, Chopped Reeses Cups (I’d recommend freezing these before stirring in) let your imagination go crazy.
I use a medium Cookie Scoop
to make it easy to spoon out. This candy does look like a giant blob of chocolate…until you add the drizzle. Drizzle doesn’t have to be perfect. In fact, I think the messier it is, the better it looks. Perfection is overrated.
And heres a tip if you are using a mini Muffin Pan and the Paper Liners. Before the drizzle completely hardens, use a toothpick or a wooden skewer (you know the ones you’d use to make shish kabobs) and trace around the edge of your candy to break the drizzle that’s overlapped the edges onto the pan.
This recipe makes enough to share with neighbors and friends.
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Crock Pot Candy
Ingredients
- 3 cups peanuts or other nuts (dry roasted, salted, Spanish-whatever you have on hand)
- 4 cups chocolate chips (milk chocolate, semi-sweet, dark chocolate)
- 16 ounces white almond bark or candy melts
- 1 bag Kraft Caramel Bits (11 ounce bag)
- extra white almond bark for drizzle (about 1/2 cup)
Instructions
- If using almond bark, chop to size of chocolate chips.
- In the bowl of a 4 quart or larger Crock pot, place nuts, making sure to cover the entire bottom of pot.
- Next layer Chocolate chips on top of nuts, and finally the chocolate white almond bark or candy melts.
- Cover with lid and set on low to cook for 1-2 hours. To test if ready, carefully press the white chocolate bark on top with a spoon or fork. If the chocolate is at least 1/2 melted (soft) it's time to stir.
- Turn off crock pot.
- With a large wooden spoon or spatula, carefully stir mixture until all chocolate is mixed and smooth. Fold in caramels. (they will start to melt a little.)
- Spoon candy by teaspoonfuls into paper lined mini muffin trays or onto a wax paper lined tray.
- Melt white almond bark reserved for drizzle according to package directions. Using a spoon, drizzle over still warm candies.
- Let candy cool completely. Store in an air tight container.
Notes
I used a medium cookie scoop to portion out my candies.
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Amanda says
Crock pot candy is my favorite treat!
Honey says
I MADE THIS PISTACHIO FUDGE ABOUT 2 YEARS AGO. THE ONLY THING THAT I FOUND THAT WAS WRONG WITH IT WAS THE FACT THAT IT WAS SOOOOOO RICH. GOING TO TRY THIS AND SEE IF MAYBE IT’S A BETTER RECIPE. THANK FOR EVERYTHING YOU BLOG AND THE MARVELOUS RECIPES THAT YOU POST.
Elisa says
You didn’t mention how to store these yummy bits of goodness and how long they will last.
meg says
looks yummy…would love to win
Paula+Neat says
This may be better than the one recently on Food Network. According to the other directions, cooking time was 3 hours, i had burnt peanuts and not to mention the chocolate around the edges was over cooked. I am willing to try your recipe since it looks far better than the results that I had. Wanted to give the other away to friend and family but would be highly embarrassed .
Joan Hayes says
So sorry you had that bad experience. You definitely want to check this at the shortest time frame. Every crock pot heats differently and there’s nothing worse than burnt chocolate. Also, make sure the bottom of your crock pot is fully covered with the nuts. If even one chocolate chip gets to the bottom, it can ruin the whole batch.
Amanda says
I love this! It’s so versatile and simple!
Holly Clift says
love your candy’s and reciepes. But I don’t do instagram so for entering your contest isn’t going to happen with me. FB is a much better entry for me!!! Just saying! Happy Holidays
Joan Hayes says
Holly, I understand. Don’t worry, I have another giveaway on Friday and I’ll have a few more in the new year!
Jessica says
I find if frustrating that more and more of these giveaways are requiring following the blogger on Instagram or Pinterest. I don’t use either of those, so I miss out. 🙁
Anita at Hungry Couple says
I’ll take mine with peanut butter chips, please. 🙂
Evelyn Mays says
This recipe was a major disappointment. It should be labeled ‘spoon candy’. I would not ever make this again or recommend it to anyone.
LEE says
THANK YOU FOR THIS AWESOME RECIPE…….IT IS SO EASY AND SO DELICIOUS……IT HAS MAKE MY GIFT GIVING VERY EASY THIS YEAR……THANKS AGAIN AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS……
PS: FOR EVERYONE WONDERING WHETHER TO MAKE THIS..”HELL YAH”…….INSTRUCTIONS ARE SO EASY AND THE AMOUNT MADE IS ON POINT……GET OUT THOSE CRACKPOTS…
Joanne hughes says
My daughter-in-law made crock pot candy this year for our celebration and it was the best stuff ever! She did a great job.
Victoria says
I was not able to get the caramel bits but did buy the caramels and just cut them into smaller pieces. These were easy to make and so delicious. I did do one thing different. I felt and so did my family that they were too big. So what I did was cut them into either halves or quarters and put them in mini cup cake liners. They were a big hit at the family Christmas party.
Joan Hayes says
Glad everyone enjoyed them. Happy New Year!
Victoria Snyder says
First of all I look forward to your emails with your recipes. I made this last Christmas to take to in-laws and it was not only easy but a big hit with the family. The best part is you can add your own variation and it is still yummy! I love your website and it’s catchy name which was how I originally found you. Keeping it going Joan!