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Recipe: Bite Sized Bacon Caramels

There are just some things that were made to be together. Peanut butter and jelly, tomatoes and basil and best of all, caramels and bacon. There was a caramel bacon fad a year ago, but we wanted to...

Sweet and Gooey Caramel Desserts for Valentine's Day

Why does chocolate get all the attention on Valentine's? As much as we love chocolate, we find caramel desserts even more appealing right now. Maybe it's the interesting burnt sugar tastes or the chew...

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....

Candy-Making Basics: Do You Use Wood or Metal Spoons?

When first learning to work with sugar back in culinary school, we were taught to only use a clean metal spoon to prevent crystallization while the sugar was melting. This and the vision of our chef p...

Candy-Making Basics: How to Work with Sugar

As we mentioned in our post on crystallized sugar syrup, candy-making is a brand new culinary adventure for us. We're teaching ourselves the basics and look forward to sharing our triumphs and pitfall...

Trend Watch: Is the Cupcake Fad Nearing an End?

Earlier this month, the New York Times ran an article asking this very question. Personally, we feel ready for a change of scenery. What about you? Click through to see our guesses for what's next on ...

Ice Cream Topping: Shortcut Dulce de Leche

Anything with caramel on top and we're sold. But give us the deep flavorful richness of dulce de leche and we're complete goners. When we don't feel like making the long version of dulce de leche, we...

Good Question: How Do I Make Chewy Caramels?

Juliet is frustrated in her quest to make soft, chewy caramels - can anyone help? About making caramel candy--you know, the nice soft chewy kind with cream and butter in it? Well, I've now tried tw...

Home-Baked Chocolate: Chocolate Caramel Slice

Do you know what a slice is? It's not a piece, or a slab, or a chunk. A slice is much more than that. ...

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: Caramel Risotto

Risottos and braises are not the same, since a risotto is not covered at any point in the cooking process. But they are related in that the rice is fried with butter at the beginning, then cooked sl...