Are you hosting a summer wedding, shower, or other celebration? Our nutty family loves parties, and there’s nothing sweeter than treating your guests to a candy buffet!  To inspire you, we’ve put together a candy buffet gallery.

If you’re looking for a wedding candy buffet, we’ve got wedding candy galore! With our candy by color selection, you’re sure to find the perfect match for your theme, whether you’d like a classic white candy buffet, an outdoor candy buffet, or a dazzling hot pink candy buffet. We have a large selection of personalized candy favors, too, in case that’s the treat you’d prefer for your guests.

If you’re planning a baby shower, we’ve got you covered, too! Regardless of whether it’s a boy, a girl, or a surprise, our candy buffet gallery has something for everyone: a baby girl shower candy buffet, a baby boy shower candy buffet, and a green candy buffet (and that’s just the start!).

Take advantage of the warm summer months with a spring candy buffet, a summer candy buffet, or a rustic snack buffet. Or, throw a birthday party decorated with a classic birthday candy buffet, a beach candy buffet, or a carnival candy buffet.

Candy Buffet Planning Tips

1. Start with an inspiration board for your buffet – photos of candy buffets that you like, candies, decorations, and fabric swatches.
2. You need about 1/4 to 1/2 pounds of candy per guest, but keep in mind that you should get enough candy for your table to look full and opulent. You may want to draw out a plan for how you will arrange the candy containers on your table.
3. Consider starting with 5-10 different types of candy. More variety of candy adds color and character to your buffet.
4. Don’t forget a backdrop!  For more dramatic effect, you can set your buffet against an interesting wall, in the middle of a room, or outside. Or purchase an interesting fabric and pin it on the wall against which you’re planning to display your buffet.

Check out even more of our candy buffet tips.  And, if you need help designing your candy buffet or candy favors, our Candy Concierge is here to help! Contact our specialists at care@nuts.com or 800-558-6887 for advice and support.

Have a sweet celebration!

Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and we have plenty of Mother’s Day gifts that are sure to please! Our gift baskets, tins and trays are a great way to treat your mom to a special surprise.

Our wide selection of gifts ensures that there’s something for everyone. One of our favorites is the Golden Gift Basket, which is packed with nearly eight pounds of snacks such as cashews, pistachios and chocolate strawberries. Our Overflowing with Love Gift Basket is the perfect Mother’s Day gift, with special treats such as dried kiwi and dark chocolate malted milk balls. The Chocolate Supreme Tin is loaded with premium chocolate-covered nuts and raisins, and the Giant Gourmet Gift Basket is perfect for sharing.

If your mom’s a health nut, we’ve got just the thing! Our All-Natural Gift Basket and Delectable Organic Gift Basket are filled to the brim with treats such as nut butter, trail mix, Energy Squares and natural dried fruit. The contents are as delicious as they are healthy!

We also offer gift tins for those with special dietary needs. Our Sugar Free Tin of Indulgent Treats contains delicious goodies such as sugar-free milk chocolate peanuts and sugar-free yogurt raisins. Our Very Berry Gift Tin, piled with plump dried berries, is certified gluten-free.

If you know just what your mom wants, we recommend creating a custom tray! These trays, which can be filled with up to five products of your choice, are perfect Mother’s Day gifts. Pile yours high with our high-quality dried fruit, nuts, sweets and trail mix. Your mom will just love it!

What will you be giving your mother this year?

May is National Salad Month, and we think that’s just great! We love crisp, cool salads during the warm spring and summer months, and with the right ingredients, salads never get boring. Nuts.com offers quite a few products that can give your salad a flavor and nutrition boost. Hooray!

Salad booster is the ultimate salad seasoning. We love it! Salad booster is made from a mixture of sprouted seeds, savory seasonings, veggies and superfoods such as organic sprouted pumpkin seeds, spirulina, organic sprouted sunflower seeds and white chia seeds. Cheesy salad booster has the same nutritional power as regular salad booster, with the added flavor of nutritional yeast.

Salad topper mix is a classic combination of salad topping such as sunflower seeds, soy beans, imitation bacon bits, sesame seeds, vegetables and spices. We also offer traditional salad toppings such as sesame salad bits and seasoned homestyle croutons. They’ll add a little crunch to your simple salad!

Nuts and seeds can add a little extra nutrition and flavor to salads. Try raw sunflower seeds, raw pepitas and sliced natural almonds. Organic hemp seeds and chia seeds are also both great options for topping salads.

If you like to add a little sweetness to your salad, we highly recommend adding a handful of dried blueberries. They’re great when paired with goat cheese and greens! We also love chopped organic sundried tomatoes. These sweet and salty little tomatoes are grown without pesticides and are certified organic by CCOF.

What are some of your favorite salad toppings?

Today is National Truffles Day! Sweet! We love rich, chocolate truffles. They make a great treat for special occasions, and a wonderfully sweet gift for a special someone.

We’ve written about making homemade truffles, and they certainly are a delicious treat (especially when rolled in finely chopped nuts).  We highly recommend whipping up a batch for your family and friends. However, we also offer some of the best truffles we have ever tasted through Nuts.com!

Our huge, delicious truffles are as beautiful as they are yummy. Each box contains eight tempting truffles, with flavors such as dark chocolate raspberry, milk chocolate champagne and white chocolate. We were blown away by these truffles the first time we tried them, and we promise that they are the most amazing truffles you’ll ever taste. They’re sure to be a hit with your special someone!

If you’d like a truffle treat that’s a bit lighter, we can’t think of anything better than our chocolate rum truffle coffee. Available in both regular and decaffeinated versions, this coffee’s flavor combination of rich chocolate and rum is truly decadent.

What are some of your favorite chocolatey treats? However you plan to celebrate, we hope that you have a marvelous National Truffles Day!

One of our favorite Easter treats is jelly beans. In fact, we love them so much that we offer more than 20 varieties! We love to munch them by the handful, load them into plastic eggs and Easter baskets, and even use them to decorate cookies and cupcakes. However, one of our favorite uses for jelly beans is to bake up a big batch of jelly bean cookies! These citrusy-sweet cookies are similar to chocolate-chip cookies, except that instead of chocolate chips, they’re studded with sweet jelly beans.

To start, mix up a batch of your favorite chocolate-chip cookie dough, but make a couple of substitutions. Instead of vanilla extract, add 2 tbsp. of lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of lemon zest. Mix 1 cup of jelly beans into the dough, in place of the chocolate chips. Bake the cookies according to the instructions, allowing them to cool completely before eating them.

It’s fun to try new varieties and different combinations of jelly beans in these cookies! Our original jelly beans, with flavors such as orange, coconut and cherry, are always wonderful. Jelly Belly 49 Flavors contain a delicious combination of classic and unusual flavors that will make every bite of your cookies a tasty surprise! Organic jelly beans, made with natural ingredients, are a fantastic choice, as well. You can even add your favorite flavors of Jelly Belly jelly beans to create yummy flavor combinations! (One of our favorites is Jelly Belly French Vanilla and Jelly Belly Tangerine.)

What are your favorite varieties of jelly beans? Do you have any special recipes for Easter treats?

National Chip and Dip Day happens to be today! With all this barbecue-worthy weather we’ve been having lately, we can’t think of a better reason to whip up a batch of dip to munch with veggie chips or veggie sticks. We love this creamy zesty dip, made with our yummy herbs and spices. It pairs perfectly with a dinner of grilled meat and veggies. Be sure to make enough for a crowd! Though this dip may seem simple, it always goes fast!

In a medium bowl, start by mixing together a creamy base of 1 cup of mayonnaise and 1 cup of sour cream or plain Greek yogurt. Add 1-2 tbsp. of finely grated onion, 1 clove of minced garlic and 1 to 2 tsp. of your favorite seasoning blend from Nuts.com. Our favorites for this recipe are ranch seasoning, sour cream and onion seasoning and garlic and herb seasoning. Stir the dip until it’s mixed thoroughly, cover the bowl and refrigerate the dip for two to three hours. Pair this savory dip with regular veggie chips, veggie sticks, sweet potato chips or even okra chips! In fact, just about any of our varieties of veggie chips taste great with this creamy dip.

If you prefer our sweet and crunchy fruit chips, we’ve got a great dip recipe for you! Fold 1 cup of whipped cream into 1 cup of flavored Greek yogurt (such as strawberry, mango or vanilla). Stir in 1/2 cup of the baking chips of your choice. Some great choices include cinnamon chips and milk chocolate chips. Serve this sweet dip with a side of fruit chips for a yummy dessert or side that’s sure to please kids and adults alike!

Do you have a favorite dip recipe for veggie chips or fruit chips? We’d love to hear about it!

March is National Peanut Month, which is a great reason to celebrate at Nuts.com headquarters! Our family’s tradition of enjoying perfectly roasted peanuts goes back decades, when Poppy Sol first started selling the highest-quality, freshly roasted nuts he could find. In fact, the aroma of freshly roasted peanuts is something we’ll always associate with our shop! Peanuts are one of our favorite snacks, and we make sure to offer only the best peanutty products for our customers.

Of course, we think the best way to indulge during National Peanut Month is to munch on some Jumbo Roasted Peanuts. These peanuts, roasted daily in the shell, are definitely the best peanuts we’ve ever tasted! Jumbo Roasted Peanuts are a fantastic addition to picnics, ballgames and barbecues.

Oh course, our selection of peanuts doesn’t stop with our Jumbo Roasted Peanuts. Other favorites include boiled peanuts, honey roasted peanuts, chocolate peanuts, Cajun peanuts and wasabi peanuts. For more adventurous taste buds, we’ve also included selections such as Japanese peanuts (with a hint of soy sauce), buffalo peanuts, sing bhujia (also known as masala peanuts) and seaweed peanuts. If you crave a more old-fashioned treat, you’ll just love our French burnt peanuts, Spanish peanuts and yogurt peanuts. Yum!

We also have a great selection of peanut butter, including organic peanut butter (with no added sugar or salt) and organic dark chocolate peanut butter. Crave some sweets? Try our peanut butter malted milk balls, peanut butter covered pretzels, chocolate peanut butter fudge and peanut butter bars. Chocolate covered peanut brittle and milk chocolate peanut clusters are also two of our favorites. You won’t regret treating yourself!

What are some of your favorite food featuring peanuts?

We love any excuse to bake with deliciously nutty ingredients from Nuts.com, and St. Patrick’s Day is no exception! We shared our recipe for gooey butter cookies a few months ago, and we love these soft and delicious cookies so much that we decided to make a St. Patrick’s Day version. These cookies, flavored with pistachio nut paste, are sure to knock your socks off.

Start by creaming together one stick of softened unsalted butter and one 8 oz. brick of softened cream cheese. Add one box of white cake mix (or 3 cups of gluten-free vanilla cake mix), 1 egg and 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract. Stir the ingredients to make a soft dough, then blend in 1/4 cup of pistachio nut paste, two to three drops of green food coloring and about 1/2 cup of chopped roasted pistachios.

Scoop rounded teaspoonsfuls of dough into a bowl of powdered sugar. Roll the dough balls in powdered sugar until they’re lightly coated and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake the pistachio gooey butter cookies at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 10-13 minutes, but keep an eye on them. The pistachio nut paste may cause them to brown a bit more quickly than the traditional recipe.

Cool the cookies completely on a wire rack, then store them in an airtight container. They should stay fresh for about two days. Yum!

St. Patrick’s Day is just a couple weeks away, and we have some fantastic treats for the little leprechauns in your life! If you’re planning a St. Patrick’s Day party or candy buffet, consider including some gorgeous green candy. These sweets are as tasty as they are pretty, and they’ll lend a festive air to just about any get-together.

Leprechan’s Delight (otherwise known as kelly green chocolate covered sunflower seeds) is just perfect for St. Patrick’s Day. One of our favorite uses for this lovely treat (besides eating it by the handful) is using it to top cupcakes or ice cream sundaes, along with some green sprinkles. Leprechan’s Delight also makes a wonderful substitute for chocolate chips in your favorite cookie recipe. Give it a whirl!

If you’re making goodie bags, you may also want to incorporate some of our other varieties of fabulously green candy. We love green treats like gummy frogs, dark green M&M’s, green apple gummy bears, Jelly Belly watermelon and green apple licorice twists. If you’re feeling nostalgic, you may want to check out classic sweets such as sour apple fruit slices, lime candy sticks and green rock candy sticks. You can see our full selection of green candy in the candy by color section of Nuts.com.

What are some of your favorite green goodies for St. Patrick’s Day?

Hi there! Yesterday was National Peanut Butter Lovers’ Day, but since every day is National Peanut Butter Lovers’ Day around here, we thought we’d share one of our favorite peanut buttery recipes! These frozen pops are rich and delicious, the perfect treat for a special dessert or snack.

To start, pour 2 cups of regular, almond or soy milk into a bowl. Whisk in 3/4 cup of your favorite smooth peanut butter. You could use unsweetened organic peanut butter, or kick up the recipe with one of our varieties of gourmet peanut butter. We especially love using organic dark chocolate peanut butter and caramel peanut butter in this recipe. If you’re using unsweetened peanut butter, you may also want to add a small amount of sweetener to the mixture. Stir the mixture until it’s smooth, then cover the bowl and refrigerate it for two to three hours.

Divide the ice pop mixture evenly among eight to 10 popsicle molds, and slide the molds into the freezer. Freeze the ice pops for at least four hours, or until they’re frozen solid. They’re delicious as-is, or dunked in melted dark chocolate wafers. If you choose to coat the frozen pops in chocolate, dip them in the melted dark chocolate wafers, then place the coated ice pops on a baking sheet lined with wax paper and put them back in the freezer for at least an hour.

If you or someone you love is allergic to peanuts, don’t fret! These ice pops are also fantastic when made with cashew butter, almond butter or sunflower butter. Try different types of nut butters until you find the variety you like best!