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    Candy Recipes

    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.

    • Coating amaretto balls in granulated sugar.
      Booze Balls with Dark Chocolate and Amaretto
    • Homemade milk chocolate bars
      Homemade chocolate bars
    • A tin of homemade truffles lightly dusted in cocoa powder.
      Earl Grey Chocolate Truffles
    • How to make chocolate peanut butter cups with any nut butter
      Homemade chocolate peanut butter cups with any nut (or seed)
    • Cutting and wrapping homemade soft caramels
      How To Make Sea Salt Caramels
    • Reduced-sugar blood orange pâte de fruit
    • honey grapefruit pâte de fruit
      Grapefruit honey 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
    • Maple fudge with walnuts, cut into squares, on a platter.
      Maple fudge
    • White chocolate-covered fruitcake balls on a plate, ready to be eaten.
      Christmas cake balls
    • buttered popcorn brittle
      Buttered popcorn brittle
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    Make Marmalade

    • How to make marmalade
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • Three fruit marmalade

    Citrus Baking

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon Shortbread Cookies
    • gluten-free-lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-and-berries
      Gluten-free lemon cake with raspberries
    • Slicing and serving a glazed orange cake
      Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-Free + Grain-Free)
    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • lemon mousse
      Lemon mousse (gluten-free)
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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