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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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    Bake With Rhubarb

    • Strawberry jam with rhubarb smeared on a piece of toast on a plate.
      Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
    • Freshly baked rhubarb crumble ready to be served.
      Rhubarb Crumble
    • Rhubarb upside down cake sliced to serve it.
      Rhubarb Raspberry Upside-Down Cake
    • Serving rhubarb muffins on plates with a side of butter.
      Rhubarb Muffins With Sour Cream And Streusel
    • Let's bake with rhubarb-best rhubarb recipes roundup
      What to bake with rhubarb
    • Bluebarb or blueberry rhubarb crumble with a marzipan oat crumble topping in a blue baking dish with a fluted edge
      Blueberry rhubarb crisp with marzipan crumble

    Maple Season

    • Double crust apple pie loaded with apples.
      Maple Apple Pie
    • Serving maple cinnamon buns from the baking pan with a spatula.
      Maple Cinnamon Buns
    • Homemade maple butter
      How to Make Homemade Maple Butter
    • Maple syrup custard pie
      Maple Syrup Pie
    • Maple fudge with walnuts, cut into squares, on a platter.
      Maple fudge
    • Maple syrup can be used to make maple butter, a spread for toast or even maple syrup pie
      What to bake with maple syrup

    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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