It’s almost turkey time! We love Thanksgiving because it gives us a chance to spend a wonderful day with our friends and family, enjoying delicious food and visiting. Though turkey and mashed potatoes do hold a special place in our heart, we also love the tart and sweet taste of cranberries. (Maybe that’s why we offer so many cranberry-tastic treats through NutsOnline!) Here are some of our favorites:

1)      Dried Cranberries: These sweet dried treats are great for munching straight from the bag, as well as stirring into cranberry sauce, stuffing, pie filling and cookie dough. We offer a wide variety of dried cranberries, including the ever-popular whole dried cranberries, organic cranberries, natural cranberries that are infused with juice and sliced cranberries. We even have a crunchy freeze-dried variety called Simply Cranberries that are incredibly healthy and tasty!

2)      Candied Cranberries: Besides dried cranberries, we also have a healthy selection of sweet candied cranberries. Try our yogurt covered cranberries, with their sweet and delicious coating, or our pastel milk chocolate cranberries. Our dark chocolate covered cranberries are so decadently rich and delicious that they’re perfect for a holiday celebration!

3)      Cranberries in a Jar: Cranberries in a jar are fantastic for pies, dessert topping and baked goods. We love to eat warmed helpings of these wild mountain cranberries over homemade vanilla ice cream!

4)      Cranberry Coffee: It may sound a bit kooky, but cranberry coffee is a great way to start your day! It incorporates the tart flavor of cranberries with fresh roasted coffee beans for a delightful blend that’s delicious with pie and sweet breads!

What are some of your favorite cranberry treats?

Hip, hip, hooray, it’s National Sundae Day! Even though it’s getting chillier all the time, we still love to indulge in a sweet and delicious ice cream sundae. One of our favorite sundaes is vanilla ice cream topped with warm, homemade, nutty praline topping.

To make our favorite sundae topping, place half a stick (4 tbsp.) of unsalted butter in a medium saucepan. Melt the butter over low heat, stirring constantly, until it’s completely melted. Add 1-1/4 cups of brown sugar, 2 cups of mini marshmallows, ¼ tsp. of salt and 2 tbsp. of light corn syrup. Stirring the ice cream topping constantly, bring the mixture to a boil over low heat and allow it to boil for one minute. Remove the topping from the heat and let it cool for five to 10 minutes. Stir in 1 cup of full-fat evaporated milk, 1 tsp. of pure vanilla extract and 2 cups of chopped pecans. Drizzle the warm praline topping over vanilla ice cream, top it with a few extra pecans and serve your yummy sundae immediately.

You can store this ice cream topping in the refrigerator for up to a week. Just heat it up in the microwave or on the stove over low heat before serving!

What’s your favorite nutty sundae?

Our custom trays are a great gift and a fun (and fast) way to serve yummy treats.  You can choose from more than 150 different kinds of nuts, dried fruits, sweets, and treats for your tray.

If you need some inspiration, you can start with one of our favorite trays.  Snack on David’s Nutty Mix, filled with healthy roasted cashews, almonds, pistachios, pecans, and macadamia nuts.  If you prefer healthy, chewy dried fruit, you will enjoy Sandy’s Fruit Mix, filled with jumbo mejdool dates, peaches, pears, dried apricots, and dried strawberries.

Looking for something more decadent?  Kenny’s Chocolate Mix is sure to satisfy any sweet tooth with buttercrunch mix, milk chocolate gummy beras, chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate covered cashews, and dark chocolate covered peanuts.  So deliciously indulgent!

Happy National Chocolate Day, everyone! We sure do love sweets, and chocolate treats are the tops! According to a poll on our Facebook page, lots of our fans feel the same way!

Chocolate-covered nuts seem to top the list for a lot of you, and we can see why. There’s nothing tastier than sweet chocolate pecans, chocolate cashews or chocolate almonds. They’re great for a special occasion, a gift or even just as a delicious treat to share with the ones you love!

If you love chocolate-covered nuts but need to avoid sugar, give our sugar-free chocolate-covered nuts a try! Our chocolate peanuts are amazing, and our sugar-free chocolate almonds can’t be beat!

Of course, our selection of chocolate and sweets doesn’t stop there! We’ve got chocolate bars, chocolate-covered dried fruit, chocolate-covered sunflower seeds, malted milk balls, fudge, chocolate covered espresso beans and (our personal favorite) chocolate covered pretzels. Choose your favorite and munch away!

What’s you favorite chocolate treat? Is there a NutsOnline sweet that you just can’t get enough of, or one you wish that we offered? We’d love to hear all about it!

These 15 Halloween treats won’t trick you with their high calorie count – each serving has 100 calories or less!

Head over to our Halloween candy page to find these sweet treats (and more).

At first glance, you might wonder whether you should eat these corn cupcakes at the start of your meal (because of the corn) or as a dessert (because of the cupcake).  But look closely and you’ll be amazed!

Our friend, Martha, decorated these delicious cupcakes with candy!

The “corn” is made from yellow Jelly Belly Buttered Popcorn and white Jelly Belly French Vanilla.  The “butter” is made from banana split chews.

What a delightful idea for a fall dessert!

Get ready! In honor of National Celiac Disease Awareness Day, we’re offering the chance to win a very special Trivia Tuesday prize next Tuesday, Sept. 13. Woohoo!

We love our gluten-free customers bunches, and want to show our appreciation for their loyalty and all-around fabulousness by offering up one Gluten Free Sampler Pack as the Trivia Tuesday prize next week. One lucky winner will receive a box packed with samples of our most popular gluten-free goodies, including chocolate covered sunflower seeds, veggie chips and Simply Fruit Cocktail. The pack also includes sample-sized bags of nutritious everyday staples, such as organic quinoa and gluten free steel cut oats.

To win our Trivia Tuesday challenge, just submit your answer to our trivia question on our Facebook page or Twitter feed. We’ll select the winner by random drawing the next morning. Easy! Keep in mind that our Trivia Tuesday challenge is only open to residents of the United States and Canada, as well as those with APO/FPO military addresses. One entry per person, please!

The Gluten Free Sampler Pack is simply fantastic, whether you’re just getting started on a gluten-free diet or are a seasoned gluten-free chef. Make sure you head on over to our Facebook page or subscribe to our Twitter feed @Nuts_Online on Tuesday for a chance to win!

It’s back-to-school time! While we know some of those among us aren’t quite ready to trade the freedom of summer for pencils and books, we love this time of year. It gives us a chance to pack our pantries with healthy and delicious back-to-school snacks!

Nuts are our No. 1 back-to-school snack. They’re packed with nutrition and protein to keep you (and your little scholars) focused and energized throughout the day! Some of our favorite nuts to buy for snacks include almonds, pistachios, Brazil nuts and cashews. We also love seeds, with sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds being two yummy options.

Dried fruit is one sweet snack that won’t get you down, and we have hundreds of options in that category! Try our dried apricots and dried cherries for a delicious treat. Other great options for lunchboxes include our fruit leather and fruit chips. Delish!

Veggie chips are available in all kinds of varieties from NutsOnline. They’re fantastic! Our regular veggie chips and BBQ veggie chips are definitely two customer favorites. We also offer wacky, but delicious, options such as okra chips, green bean chips, hot pepper veggie chips and wasabi veggie chips.

Trail mix is a great snack because it includes a mix of sweet and savory ingredients. It’s healthy and filling, and gives your loved ones some great energy! For a nut-free treat, try our Berry Mix. Delicious trail mixes with nuts include our Power Mix, Organic Trail Mix and Extreme Trail Mix. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can even whip up a 5-lb. bag of custom trail mix using our trail mix creator page.

What are some of your favorite back-to-school snacks? We’d love to hear all about the top choices at your house!

It’s nearly the Fourth of July, and we’ve got red, white and blue candy on the brain! And, if a poll we took on our Facebook page this week is any indication, some of you do, too. If you’re prepping for a party, shower or wedding with a patriotic theme, a selection of vibrant candy is sure to set your celebration apart.

Take our gorgeous red candy, for instance. Some of our favorites include cinnamon bears, atomic fireballs, starlight mints and mint balls. We also love watermelon fruit slices and organic cherry drops. They’re just so summery!

Our white candy selection is classic and elegant. Yogurt raisins and yogurt peanuts are a rich, sweet snack, and white chocolate almond bark is an old-fashioned favorite. Chocolate nonpareils will capture the sweet tooth of any chocolate lover.

Our blue candy ranges from wacky to refined. We adore our blue Jordan almonds for weddings and showers. Our gummy blue sharks and Jelly Belly blueberry jelly beans add some fun to any candy buffet. Powder blue Sixlets and royal blue Sixlets offer a choice between two beautiful hues of the same delicious candy.

We also urge you to take a peek at our old-time candies. Nothing will take you and your guests back more than indulging in classic sweets, such as Laffy Taffy, salt water taffy, Squirrel Nut Zippers and Charleston Chews. You may also want to throw in some Blow Pops for good measure. Everyone loves that sweet sucker with a treat in the center!

What are some of your favorite red, white and blue candies? Is there an old-fashioned candy you just can’t get enough of?

Can you believe that the Fourth of July is a little more than a week away? Summertime sure does fly!

We like to get together with friends and family on the Fourth to barbecue, play games, swim and enjoy each other’s company. And, of course, that always includes a few treats!

For a simple sweet that kids and adults alike will enjoy, try our USA gummy bears. These chewy, red-white-and-blue candies are delicious and festive, and they’re perfect for topping ice cream sundaes! We also recommend our Patriotic Gift Tray. You really can’t go wrong with an assortment of sugar toasted peanuts, roasted pistachios and dried blueberries.

Our special July Fourth cookies are also a big hit at the family barbecue, and they’re spectacularly simple to make! Just whip up a batch of your favorite chocolate-chip cookie dough. In place of the chocolate chips, add equal parts dried blueberries, dried cranberries and white chocolate chips. If you want to get really crazy, spoon a layer of ice cream between two cookies (after they cool, of course), wrap the treat in plastic wrap and put it in the freezer for at least an hour. Homemade ice cream sandwiches!

What are some of your favorite Fourth of July treats?