Top 7 Citrus Candy Recipes

Bright orange notes add a refreshing tang to these decadent chocolate truffles. These gourmet treats are also delicious when made with tangerines instead. The candied peel on top of the truffles is optional, but it adds a nice flavor and a pretty visual touch. If you decide to use it, you can buy it from some grocery stores, or make your own candied citrus peel using the following recipe.

The next time you find yourself with a surplus of citrus peels, don't throw them out! Use them to make candied citrus peel instead. Orange, lemon, or grapefruit peel can be candied to make a deliciously fresh, zesty treat.

Roll the candied peels in sugar and eat them plain, or store them in syrup and chop them up to use them in baking recipes. If you want to be really indulgent, dip the candied peels partially or completely in chocolate. They're also a wonderful decoration for other citrus-flavored candies.

Lemon Chews are wonderfully sweet-tart candies with a smooth, chewy texture and flavor similar to Starburst candies. You can use other extracts and food colors to make different flavors of fruit chews--citrus and berry flavors all work very well.

This Lemon Marshmallows recipe produces a light, fluffy marshmallow sparkling with sweet-tart lemon flavor. Enjoy these marshmallows plain, dip them in chocolate, or use them as an ingredient in a gourmet version of Rocky Road candy!

What happens when you put the lime in the coconut? Magic! In this recipe for lime-coconut truffles, a white chocolate truffle base is infused with fresh lime zest and juice, then rolled in sweet coconut for a refreshingly different tropical candy.

This Key Lime Pie Fudge recipe takes the classic flavors of key lime pie and recreates them in fudge form. Creamy white chocolate fudge, flavored with lime zest and fresh lime juice, sits atop a crunchy graham cracker crumb crust.

Pink Grapefruit Truffles sparkle with the sweet-tart flavor of fresh pink grapefruit. These chocolate truffles have both grapefruit zest and grapefruit juice in them, so the citrus flavor really shines in the sweet chocolate ganache.