Hard candy is easy and can be made in many colors and flavors. 2 cups sugar, 2/3 cup corn syrup, 3/4 cup water. Heat to boiling on medium heat while gently stirring. Once solution is clear, quit stirring and gently boil to 310 F (hard crack). Add a few drops color and a few mL flavoring oil after it cools a bit. Pour out on a cooky sheet with Pam on it, cool, break into pieces, eat. Store in jars and shake a bit of powdered sugar in it. For more info, you can go to LorAnn dot com. Regular extracts can be used from the grocery store, but it takes more of it.
We make kid-level fudge.
Pour a tin and a half (like 400ml?) of condensed milk into a pan. Add about the same amount (like 400g?) of chocolate in some form - dark chocolate with mint works well, but so do plain chocolate chips, or whatever you fancy. Mix till the chocolate melts. Stir in any flavourings, like vanilla or a pinch of salt or whatever goes with what you’re doing. Mix in whatever you want. I like walnuts and cranberries best, but the kids’ schools don’t allow nuts, so we couldn’t do that. Broken-up After Eights go well with the mint chocolate version. Smashed Oreos and a pinch of salt go well with plain chocolate. Orange chocolate with a raisin-sultana-cranberry-cherry mix and a pinch of cinnamon worked well.
Pour it into a glass dish lined with wax paper. Leave it in the fridge overnight. Spray it with edible gold spray. Slice and eat.