Sweets recipes - 23 recipes
Sweets are generally a type of confectionery that can be high in sugar and are known as ‘candy’ in America and ‘lollies’ in Australia.
Sugar sweets are a combination of sugar, water and food flavourings and colourings.
In the UK however, sweets can also include other desserts, such as chocolate, red velvet cupcake or jam roly polys.
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Top Recipe
Macaroons
By jyeom12

Details
servings 12
Level of difficulty Average
Preparation time 45
Cooking time 15
Cost Average budget
- 125g/4½oz icing sugar
- 125g/4½oz ground almonds
- 90g/3½oz free-range egg whites
- 2 tbsp water
- 110g/4oz caster sugar
- food colouring
- 150ml/5fl oz double or whipped cream, whipped
The delicious little sweets are easy to make, and make a great gift for friends!
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Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears

By Xana
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water
- Gummy Bears
- Humongous bar of milk chocolate
White Chocolate Macarons

By Claudiachocolat , blog Aux gourmandises
For the shells: -Mix the ground almonds and icing sugar and then sift the powder obtained
- For twenty small macarons
- 120g icing sugar
- 90g ground almonds
- 30g caster sugar
- 70g egg whites (about 2 whites)
- For the white chocolate ganache
- 100g white chocolate
- 5cl cream
- 10g butter
Christmas Shortbread

By Lady
In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, egg and 5 ml of milk
- 200g flour
- 100g sugar
- 100g butter, softened
- 5 cl of milk
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 pinch of baking powder
Salted butter caramel filled chocolates

By sophie21
Prepare the caramel: Melt the sugar in a saucepan over medium heat, stir in the honey and continue cooking
- 200 g of chocolate 55% cocoa
- 5 tbsp of single cream
- 100 g of caster sugar
- 2 pinches of salt
- 1 tablespoon liquid honey
- 80 g butter
- Decoration:
- 100 g of chocolate 60 to 70% cocoa
Iced chestnuts

By Maurice B.
The night before: Mix 500g of seived sugar in 125g of water to make a thick syrupy liquid - thick but liquid enough...
- 1 tin chestnuts in syrup
- icing sugar
Organic strawberry macarons

By Vincent Poussard Quai des Saveurs
Whisk the egg whites. Add the syrup, cooked to 117 ° C, to make an Italian meringue
- 500 g of organic strawberries
- Macarons:
- 125 g almond powder
- 125 g icing sugar
- 45 g of egg whites
- Syrup:
- 125 g sugar
- 35 g of water
Christmas shortbread biscuits with a sweet heart

By Choko
In a bowl, mix the softened butter, icing sugar and egg yolks with a spatula
- 125 g salted butter, softened
- 75 g of icing sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 250 g flour
- 2 tablespoons of cold water
- Thirty hard boiled sweets
Homemade Chocolate Candy Bars

By mollisia, (Hand) One Day On A Plate
Extremely easy to make even by children and healty candy bars - full of nuts and dried friut and rich chocolate
- - 2 bars of dark chocolate (min 70% of cocoa)
- - 1 packet of gorp (dried fruit and nuts)
- - about 10 biscuits
Chewing gum

By Aurel
Mix the gluten and fruit juice into a paste the same consistency as modeling clay
- 500 g of seitan wheat gluten (you should find it in health food shops)
- 400 ml of fresh fruit juice, filtered and sweetened according to your taste
Pear tiramisu with speculoos

By Cojocano , blog Les petits plats dans les grands
Separate the whites from the yolks
- 250 gr marscarpone
- 3 eggs (yolks and whites separated)
- 3 tablespoons caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon Marsala
- 3 tablespoons of speculoos biscuit spread
- 6 pears
- 1 packet of speculoos biscuits (or ginger biscuits)
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Wild blueberry eclairs
- Choux pastry:
- ½ liter of milk
- 20g of sugar
- 3g of salt
- 200g butter
- 300g flour
- 7 eggs
- Wild blueberry cream:
- 6 egg yolks
- 300g of milk
- 100g sugar
- 60g cornflour
- 1 vanilla bean
- 70g mascarpone
- 30g cream
- 100g icing
- blueberry juice (from frozen wild blueberries )
- white fondant
- Icing:
- white fondant
- Food colouring, carmine and blue
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French Calissons (almost) like in...
- 200g icing sugar
- 275g ground almonds
- 200g dried melon
- 2 tbsp jam (peach or apricot)
- 25g cardamom powdered
- 2 tbsp rose water
- A sheet of edible paper
- 150g icing sugar and egg white
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Raspberry cake
- Sponge:
- - 4 eggs
- - 120 g of sugar
- - 30 g flour
- (vanilla or vanilla sugar)
- Raspberry Mousse:
- - 600 g raspberry coulis
- - 225 g of sugar
- - 5 sheets of gelatine
- - 225 g whipping cream
- Plain mousse:
- - 225 g of whipping cream, whisked into whipped cream (x2) with icing sugar or white chocolate.
- Decoration:
- - 1 punnet of fresh raspberries
- Meringue:
- - 4 egg whites
- - 250 g of sugar
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Santa's train cake
- The sponge:
- 3 eggs
- 250 g of caster sugar
- 250 g butter, softened
- 250 g flour
- 1 pinch of salt
- decor:
- marshmallows
- icing sugar
- licorice
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Christmas hazelnut shortbread
- 250 gr of flour
- 100g butter, softened
- 125 gr of sugar
- 50 g ground hazelnuts
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- a pinch of cinnamon
- 1 egg yolk to glaze
- food colouring
- 2 squares of chocolate
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Honey biscuits
- 250 g of flour.
- 160 g of sugar.
- 1 sachet of yeast.
- 3 tablespoons of liquid honey
- 125 g melted butter.
- 2 eggs.
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Chartreuse marshmallows 3.2/5 (170 Votes)
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Strawberry vanilla maki sushi
- 250g strawberries
- 120 ml of water
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- 1 level tsp of agar agar
- 45g round rice
- 250 ml of milk
- 40g of sugar
- 1/2 vanilla bean
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Kesar Kalakand
- 1 tin (400g) Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 2 heaped tablespoons Milk powder
- 1 tablespoon Kesar/saffron
- 2 tablespoon warm water
- Pinch yellow colour
- Almonds halved-6-8
- 500 g Paneer/Cottage Cheese
- 3-4 powdered Cardamom/Elaichi
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Cupcakes with Pineapple 3.2/5 (108 Votes)
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Sponge cakes for Birthday cakes
- 150g soft butter
- 150g plain flour
- 3 eggs
- 150g caster sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
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Jasmine tea-flavoured ice-cream
- 50 ml cream
- 3-4 teaspoons of black tea with jasmine
- 2 egg yolks, fresh
- 5 tablespoons of sugar
- 20 cl crème fraîche
- 2 egg whites
- 1 tbsp of sugar
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