52 Weeks of Baking

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Hello everyone! For week 17, we’re working with candied sugar and caramel creations. For this week, you could opt to make any sort of sugar-based decoration for a bake, like homemade marshmallows for these s’mores cupcakes, homemade honeycomb toffee for this salted caramel cake, or an elegant spun sugar decoration for a variety of different recipes. Or, you could choose to make a recipe incorporating homemade caramel or sugar confections, like this caramel-syrup-topped flan, these peanut brittle cookies, or these salted caramel brownies.

If you’re looking for some handy references, here’s a guide to each of the stages of cooked sugar: https://www.theflavorbender.com/cooked-sugar-stages-candy-temperature-chart/, and if you’re interested in using isomalt instead, here’s a reference on what it is, and how to work with it: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/3588/what-is-isomalt.html

Happy baking!