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    Frostings, Fillings & Sauces

    You can jazz up almost any dessert with one of these recipes for frostings, fillings, sauces, and spreads. Make homemade lemon curd to serve with gingerbread cake or a classic crème anglaise (custard sauce) to serve with fruit pies. And remember that lightly sweetened whipped cream goes with just about everything!

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    • Swirls of maple-flavoured whipped cream with maple flakes sprinkled on top.
      Maple Whipped Cream
    • Spreading whipped cream over pastry cream and berries in a bowl to make trifle.
      How to Make Whipped Cream
    • Smoothing frosting on a layer of cake with a mini offset spatula.
      Thick White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting Without Powdered Sugar
    • Thick cream cheese frosting on a layer cake, spread with an offset spatula to create vertical streaks on the surface of the frosting.
      How to Make Thick Cream Cheese Frosting for Cakes and Piping with Less Sugar
    • A glass bowl of glossy chocolate sour cream frosting.
      How to Make Chocolate Fudge Frosting
    • Using a piping bag fitted with a fine, small round tip to outline and decorate cutout gingerbread cookies with royal icing.
      Royal Icing For Decorating Cutout Cookies
    • This Earl grey tea cake is a layer cake infused with Earl Grey tea. Earl Grey tea is used in the cake layers, in the Earl Grey frosting, and in the garnish.
      Earl Grey cake
    • Italian meringue buttercream piped with 1M Wilton tip to make a rose cake
      How to make Italian meringue buttercream (recipe in grams and cups)
    • A dark chocolate cupcake with pink frosting swirl.
      Chocolate Cupcakes With Raspberry Frosting
    • chocolate cake
      Chocolate cake with coffee buttercream

    Fillings

    • A jar of homemade milk jam viewed from the top to show the gooey, thick texture.
      How to make dulce de leche
    • Transferring homemade mincemeat filling to jars to store for making mincemeat tarts.
      Homemade mincemeat
    • Filling éclairs with chocolate pastry cream
      How To Make Pastry Cream
    • Homemade salted caramel sauce in a jar with a little pinching bowl of sea salt and a ceramic plate with a spoon with salted caramel on it
      How to make salted caramel sauce
    • A jar of lemon curd set on a pink plate.
      How to Make Lemon Curd
    • Sandwiching coconut cookies with grapefruit curd
      Grapefruit curd
    • Filling matcha tarts with passion fruit curd filling
      Passionfruit curd
    • Two jars of dulce de leche from two different brands: Bonne Maman and Caramella.
      Comparison of store-bought dulce de leche

    Sauces & Spreads

    • Rubbing lemon zest into granulated sugar in a bowl to make lemon sugar.
      How to Make Lemon Sugar
    • A saucepan of homemade crème anglaise (custard sauce) that is flavoured with vanilla bean paste.
      How To Make Crème Anglaise
    • Homemade maple butter
      How to Make Homemade Maple Butter
    • sweet flavoured butters
      Sweet compound butters
    • Chocolate peanut butter spread on white bread, with bite taken out. Set on a speckled ceramic plate with a beige linen napkin and a bowl of the spread with wooden knife.
      How to make nutella without hazelnuts
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    Bake With Stone Fruit

    • Peach jam served with sourdough bread and butter on the side.
      Peach Jam Without Added Pectin
    • Transferring homemade apricot jam into jars to seal them.
      Apricot jam
    • A slice of plum cake on a pink glass plate.
      Plain Plum Cake
    • Cute pie with star design on top crust served with pile of plates and forks and a cup of coffee, striped linen
      Peach mango pie
    • Whiskey peach pie with an oat crumble topping
      Whiskey peach crumble pie
    • Plum tart recipe | @ktchnhealssoul
      Plum tart with muscovado

    Berry Season

    • Milk crumbs on a Momofuku Milk Bar style cake-layers of blackberry curd, almond cake, and almond frosting
      Blackberry almond cake — Milk Bar style
    • raspberry amaretti semifreddo slice
      Almond raspberry semifreddo
    • Vanilla cardamom tapioca pudding with strawberries
      Homemade tapioca pudding recipe with fresh strawberries
    • Rhubarb upside down cake sliced to serve it.
      Rhubarb Raspberry Upside-Down Cake
    • 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
    • A pan of baked honey blueberry muffins with streusel topping.
      Honey blueberry muffins

    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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