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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.

    • Maple fudge with walnuts, cut into squares, on a platter.
      Old- Fashioned Maple Fudge Recipe
    • 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
    • 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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    Bake With Pumpkin

    • Serving a slice of pumpkin cheesecake topped with whipped cream.
      Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
    • A yellow plate of baked pumpkin donuts coated in cinnamon sugar.
      Baked pumpkin donuts
    • Scoops of pumpkin ice cream in little bowls with pie crust cookies.
      Pumpkin ice cream
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin Pie Without Evaporated Milk
    • A plate with a pumpkin muffin split open and smeared with butter, with a cup of coffee on the side.
      Pumpkin Muffins With Streusel Topping
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake

    Apple Season

    • Double crust apple pie loaded with apples.
      Maple Apple Pie
    • Slicing into an Italian apple cake to serve it.
      Old-Fashioned Apple Yogurt Cake
    • Apple jam served on a toasted English muffin
      Cinnamon Apple Jam (no pectin)
    • Apple crumb coffee cake ready to be served with cups of tea, plates and a serrated knife
      Apple Crumble Cake
    • An apple cake baked in a square baking pan.
      Apple Butter Cake with Brandy
    • Apple butter pie stencilled with icing sugar.
      Apple Butter Pie

    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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