Candy Strawberries

we make this every year at Christmas; they are very rich and delicious!! we add a cup of crushed vanilla wafers!!

The reverend who lived next door to us growing up gifted these in a mixed cookie tin at Christmas. They were the best and I haven’t had them since I was a

LOVE THEM…HAVE A QUESTION…CAN YOU FREEZE THEM?

Yum, yum, yummy!! I grew up anticipating these delicious little gems every Christmas. My mom would let me help her make them. This recipe brought back such memories. Now I can make them for my grandkids this Christmas.

I used to make these, years ago! I lost the recipe and found this one to replace it. I made one change to ‘cut ‘ some of the very sweet without altering the consistency. I add a half a package of strawberry Kool-Aid, unsweetened to the mixture. The other half I mix with the colored sugar and rolled the strawberries in it. You get a lot more strawberry flavor and a little tart taste as well!!!

we make this every year at Christmas; they are very rich and delicious!! we add a cup of crushed vanilla wafers!!

Yum

My cousin gave me this recipe years ago. I lost it when we moved and I am so glad I found it here in time for my daughter’s baby shower next week. I love it. The only thing I do differently is I do most of the berry in red and the top on green therefore I do not have to make the almond paste.

Not my cup of tea.

I love this recipe. I have been making it for years. I found it in an old candy cookbook. They are definitely sweet, but it’s candy, what do you expect. And make sure you use sweetened condensed milk not evaporated, because yes, there is a difference. Just a suggestion, in my recipe it says to use ground coconut too. I just put both the pecans and coconut together in the food processor and grind them both. This makes the berries form a little easier.

Thank you for posting this recipe. I made this when I was in grade school (over 30 years ago) and wanted to make it again but didn’t know where to find the recipe.

Love that this recipe is posted here. As a child, my neighbor always made these very sweet treats and I remember sneaking one with her permission before her New Year’s Eve party every year. What a great memory… I love how food inspires warm memories… add these to your heritage! Thank you, Marlys Loree for making meaningful memories in my life!

Made these last easter and those who liked them, really liked them. I thought they were a little bit strange tasting. Will make again if asked, but probably not choose them myself.

These look beautiful. As far as taste, they are not bad. Verrry sweet though. The grainy texture makes me feel like I am chewing pure sugar. This recipe makes a loooot of strawberries. I am not sure I will make these again, but they were a cute and novel little treat.

I didn’t like these. I thought they were WAY too sweet and I really didn’t care for the texture.

ok these are just plain weird! They taste like some kind of step is missing or something. If you really want to make something like this stick with almond paste. Just too weird.

I have been looking for a recipe for these for a while now. I followed the recipe exactly, and they were delicious!

My Great Aunt Bert always made these so I have continued the tradition every Christmas. I shape mine into strawberry shapes, roll the bottom in red sugar and then dip the top in green. Very festive and the taste is out of this world. So much better than almond paste. Just make sure to grind your pecans very well almost make a pecan meal. HAPPY EATING.

Very fun recipe! I had left over green colored chocolate from Christmas candy and sliced off slivers to use for the strawberry tops. That worked well. I decorated a cake (lemon and strawberry marbled) with leaves and then placed candy strawberries on top for beautiful spring cake. Definitely allow plenty of time for chilling so the candy isn’t too sticky to work with. I didn’t have colored sugar so just rolled in white sugar to give a little sparkle. The strawberries were very popular!

I love this recipe my grandmother had it in one of her old Utility Company cookbooks, we made them every year together. They always look so pretty!! Update! This year I used different flavored gelatins and just shaped them into small balls. They turned out fabulous!

GORGEOUS! If you are even curious about these, then you MUST make them. They are so adorable and delicious. I made these along with several other candies for a small Christmas get together and these were such a hit. People thought they were real strawberries rolled in sugar! They were real converstation pieces as I was repeatedly asked how I made them. I told the story of how this was an old recipe I someone posted to AllRecipes and so many people thanked the poster that I had to try it. I am going to make them again next week before my parents and grandma come down to see us. These are the greatest thing, because they seem to be rarely made and unexpected– older people remember them from their childhood and little kids are pretty excited about them, too. All around good stuff. I followed the recipe word for word and it made gorgeous, gemlike little strawberries. While you may not need all the things in the original recipe, I highly, highly recommend it. The ground walnuts/pecans add such an unusual texture. I put chopped nuts in the food processor and ran the blade on them until they were about the same as ground coffee and that seemed perfect. The green dyed almond slivers are just great for stems. All I did was put a handful of almond slivers in a little bowl and stirred in a few drops of green food coloring until they were coated. Just a great recipe. This is my new Christmas tradition!