Category: Candy and Confections
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Chocolate Truffle Holiday Figs
Figs are one of those fruits you either like or don’t — personally, I’ve loved them all of my life, and I will eat them any way that I find them. The more traditional way you generally find them is dried, especially around the holidays, but I’ve also had the great pleasure to enjoy some…
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Candied Orange Peel With Honey Ridge Farms Spiced Honey Creme
Candied citrus peel is an ingredient that I am very familiar with. It is commonly used in all kinds of European style baked goods found around the holidays — like rich fruit cakes, traditional Italian panettone, German stollen and something called panforte, which is more of a cross between a fruit cake and a confection.
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A Tale Of Two Pralines
I’ve never been one of those people who liked very sweet or sugary treats. Confections like fudge or southern style pralines were never my go to treats because I always found them overly sweet and grainy. Over the years, I heard the same complaints from others, especially those watching their carb intake. But, in recent…
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Honey Ridge Farms Honey Almond Truffles
Honey…That little word plays so sweetly on your tongue…It’s the only word in the English language that describes a sweet food made from nectar AND a sweet term of endearment. Although I had first incorporated honey into my diet while I was in high school, it was not until I was in my early 30’s…
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How To Make Crystallized Ginger
I wasn’t one of those people who always liked ginger, but rather one of those people who grew to love it over a long period of time. I always enjoyed spicy gingersnap cookies and lightly spiced cakes, but eating pieces of ginger or adding it to my morning juicing routine took some getting used to.…
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Heavenly Chocolate Stones
As a food blogger, I’m always looking for great ways to promote the site and connect with other like-minded people who love food as much as I do. Social media networks, like Facebook, are great in helping to accomplish this task. One of the people I met a few years ago is wonderfully talented…
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Peppermint Patty Fudge Brownies
Saint Patrick’s Day always puts me in the mood for minty treats…I could never understand why this would happen to me each and every year without fail, but it must be all of that green color that seems to adorn everything from the more traditional icing on the tops of cupcakes, to green bagels, pesto topped…
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The Many Uses For Chocolate Ganache
Chocolate ganache is a very rich and creamy mixture of chocolate and cream that has many different uses. You can use it as a filling for cakes, fill chocolate shells to make truffles or roll the filling itself into truffles and dip into cocoa powder, or you can use it to make chocolate pate or…
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Brandied Cherries
I went to have dinner with some friends last weekend and I was asked by Pete, the patriarch of the family, if I knew how to make brandied cherries….Well, I honestly had never tried, but it could not be that hard…could it? Apparently, poor Pete had a stash that he was eating, and as the…