Apartment Therapy: Candy

Recipe: Creamy Lime and Coconut Truffle Bites

We helped cook for a big graduation party a couple of weeks ago, and ever since then we've been waiting for the right time to give you this recipe. It's hard to describe how good these little morsels ...

Recipe: Caramel Popcorn

As kids, my brother and I used to beg our mother to make caramel popcorn. We loved melting down the hot caramel topping and then taking turns shaking the brown paper bag as hard as we could until each...

Mother's Day Treat: Bouchon Bakery Strawberry Paddies

Remember those Rice Krispie eggs from Bouchhon Bakery that we showed you around Easter? That was a rather easy recipe for colorful crispy eggs. This is one more recipe from Bouchon Bakery. They have t...

Weekend Snack: Milk and Honey Peanut Butter Balls

Do you have any recipes that take you straight back to childhood? These peanut butter balls are one of those for us. But they're not just an exercise in nostalgia: these quick, easy little snacks are ...

How To Make Cake Pops

Cake balls, cake pops, cakesicles — have you tried them? They swept the internet like a tidal wave over the last year, thanks in part to the delightful and amazing creations of Bakerella and oth...

How To Make Blood Orange Jelly Smiles

It's almost Chinese New Year! The Lunar New Year falls on Monday, January 26, this year, and we're eager to talk about the food. Chinese New Year may be one of the most food-centric holidays in the wo...

Gift Recipe: Chez Panisse Herbed Almonds

My husband and I had the pleasure of visiting Chez Panisse this week -- a first for both of us. I had eaten upstairs in the café, but never downstairs in the evening dining room. It was a lovel...

Chocolate-Dipped Pretzels with Mint Sugar
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Here is a very, very last-minute food gift that takes literally five minutes to make, and yet everyone you share it with will love it (and you). Too good to be true? No -- it's just chocolate-dipped p...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Honey Roasted Peanuts

We weren't going to let one failed attempt get us down - we still think that homemade honey roasted peanuts would make a terrific homemade holiday gift. Here's the recipe we wound up with, and it's ...

DIY Salt Caramels
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Here's another wonderfully easy candy recipe for the holidays - salt caramels! Here's the recipe, along with links to great ideas for pretty wrapping and packaging....

DIY Peppermint Patties
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Whether you're planning on making candy for the holidays or want to make your own candy in general, it's a great idea. Candymaking is both economical and fun, and since you're choosing your own ingre...

D.I.Y. Recipe: Crystallized Ginger

Spicy and sweet, crystallized ginger can add a wonderful zing to cookies, cakes, ice cream, and cranberry sauce. We also like it finely chopped and sprinkled over savory dishes like roasted acorn squa...

Appetizer Recipe: Crab Apples Poached in Sweet Wine

We're talking about local apples this week, and we couldn't let the week pass without a mention of crab apples. Crab apples are the wild, cherry-sized fruit clustered on trees all over our neighborhoo...

Recipe: Classic Buttercream Frosting

Buttercream...doesn't hearing that word just make you want to close your eyes and lick your lips? So decadent. So indulgent. And here's how......

Recipe: Sweet and Salty Cinnamon Almonds

Cinnamon nuts - crunchy, sweet and salty - are one of our favorite fall snacks. This recipe is super easy, and it's good for snacking or for sprinkling on ice cream and other desserts. ...

Recipe: Peach, Plum, and Ginger Jam

You may remember our last attempt at this jam, when it turned out a wee bit hard. But because the flavor was so good, and because we were determined not to let the jam win, we gave it another try... ...

Recipe: Chocolate Toffee Matzo Candy

It's not Passover yet. It won't be Passover for over a week. And this isn't even really our recipe. But this stuff is so awesome, we just had to post the recipe now. Crispy, flaky matzo covered wit...

Recipe: Blood Orange Jelly Smiles

You've seen them on the dessert cart every time you went out for dim sum. But the lure of the custard tarts and the sesame balls has always been too strong, so you've never actually tried the jelle...

How To: Make Chocolate Ganache

What's chocolate ganache? You've probably seen scads of references to it in recipes and food writing. It's the basic tool of the chocolate baker and confectioner: cream and chocolate. Here are just ...

Recipe: Ginger Cinnamon Caramels

We are big fans of the fantastically spicy ginger chews from Ginger People (although... their oddly anthropomorphic ginger mascots? Cute or creepy?) Spicy ginger is comforting and warm, nice for win...

Recipe: Cocoa Molasses Toffee

Old-fashioned candies, sweet and strong, are our favorites. Toffee, caramels, divinity - they all show up in our Christmas packages. Here's a new favorite with an old flavor: molasses. These are str...

Recipe: Chocolate Orange Truffles

Here's one more fall treat - a new favorite. These delicious little bon-bons are made of crushed cookies and butter, stirred together with orange juice, pecans, and candied ginger. They're rolled into...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Fruity Gumdrops

Chewy, fruity gumdrops are a fun twist at the holidays, usually so full of rich chocolate and heavy treats. These little chews are still very sweet, but also light and soft, unlike the rubbery gels of...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Divinity

Divinity is related to nougat and meringue - a soft confection made with egg whites and sugar - and it's a favorite Christmas candy, especially in the Southern US. It keeps well, and it can be a relie...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Buckeyes

Do you know what a Buckeye is? It's a poisonous nut. It's also, of course, the mascot for Ohio State and an addictive candy that shows up at every OSU football party - little balls of sweet peanut but...

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