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    Confections

    Learn how to make homemade confections, from delicious creamy maple fudge to birthday cake truffles and Christmas cake balls using leftover cake. You can even make homemade candy, like soft sea salt caramels, popcorn brittle and grapefruit pâte de fruit, a fruity pectin-set candy made from fresh fruit purée. Don't forget the homemade chocolate bars, which are easy and impressive.

    White chocolate-covered fruitcake balls on a plate, ready to be eaten.

    Christmas cake balls

    Coating amaretto balls in granulated sugar.

    Booze balls with dark chocolate and amaretto

    Cutting and wrapping homemade soft caramels

    How to make sea salt caramels

    Maple fudge with walnuts, cut into squares, on a platter.

    Maple fudge

    honey grapefruit pâte de fruit

    Grapefruit honey pâte de fruit

    How to make chocolate peanut butter cups with any nut butter

    Homemade chocolate peanut butter cups with any nut (or seed)

    Homemade milk chocolate bars

    Homemade chocolate bars

    buttered popcorn brittle

    Buttered popcorn brittle

    Reduced-sugar blood orange pâte de fruit

    marshmallows

    Vanilla marshmallows

    Momofuku Milk bar birthday cake truffles recipe made from cake scraps

    Birthday cake truffles: what to make with leftover cake

    Best chocolate truffle recipe flavoured with Earl grey tea leaves

    Earl grey lavender chocolate truffles

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