Cuban lunch candies

I'm not sure where the name comes from, but these little treats are a snap to make and look really good on a Christmas sweets platter. I got the recipe from my friend Melanie, who brought these to my Christmas baking exchange. Cook time is chill time.

Along with its elegance and refinement, caker cooking is often considered one of the world’s most mysterious cuisines. There are so many ...

Sometimes, and perhaps more often than I care to admit, I get a wickedly insatiable craving for chocolate. I’m not above eating chocolate chips by the handful – whatever works in a pinch. But truthfully, that doesn’t always do the trick. Sometimes, I also want something a little salty, too. Enter, Cuban Lunches. Have you...Read More

Do you remember the Cuban Lunch Chocolate Bar? If you are Canadian you might remember it.... I loved them.. A large bar with thick chocolate that crunches in each bite.. full of peanuts. It makes my mouth water just thinking about it... I am not even sure that you can buy them anymore... But you can make them with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, peanutbutter chips, ripple chips and peanuts.. YES! I said ripple chips... I have been trying very hard not to make anything with peanuts so I…

My friend at work Kim recently gave me this recipe and it is definitely a winner!! When I was a kid growing up a "Cuban Lunch" was a chocolate bar. This was one of my mom's favourite treats and I can remember running to the little corner store and getting her one. Unfortunately McCormicks stopped making these chocolate bars many years ago but thanks to Kim for finding this recipe I can now create them in my kitchen. I used small cupcake paper liners but feel free to use any size you want…

This classic Cuban Lunch chocolate bar has the perfect ratio of chocolate to peanuts and is melt-in-your-mouth delicious! This recipe is very, very close to the original candy bar.

A peanut-and-chocolate candy popular decades ago has been flying off shelves since an Alberta couple revived it earlier this year. The Cuban Lunch bar disappeared in 1991 when the Paulins factory in Winnipeg stopped making it.

I'm not sure where the name comes from, but these little treats are a snap to make and look really good on a Christmas sweets platter. I got the recipe from my friend Melanie, who brought these to my Christmas baking exchange. Cook time is chill time.

Chocolate and peanuts are two of my favorite treats, and the combination in this recipe, along with butterscotch, gives this candy a special flavor. My mother made these for Christmas every year, but they're so easy to fix, you can enjoy them anytime.