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    Confections 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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    Festive Treats

    • A piece of gingerbread cake with cream cheese frosting and lemon curd served on a dessert plate.
      Moist Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Lemon Curd
    • Nanaimo bars cut into squares and served on a marble surface.
      Nanaimo Bars
    • A round braided boule of Christmas fruit bread on a board, sliced.
      Fruit bread
    • Freshly baked mincemeat cookies served with a glass of milk.
      Mincemeat cookies
    • Transferring homemade mincemeat filling to jars to store for making mincemeat tarts.
      Homemade mincemeat
    • A plate of ginger cookies with white chocolate chips.
      Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate

    Christmas Cookies

    • A plate of fruitcake cookies ready to be served.
      Icebox Fruitcake Cookies
    • Gingerbread cookies shaped like people decorated with white royal icing.
      Cutout Gingerbread Cookies
    • shortbread cutout cookies sandwiched with strawberry jam filling
      Jam-filled shortbread cookies
    • A plate of chocolate sugar cookies and a glass of milk.
      Chocolate Sugar Cookies
    • Freshly baked molasses cookies coated in turbinado sugar on a parchment-lined sheet pan.
      Molasses Sugar Cookies
    • Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

    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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