Not everyone wants chocolate Easter eggs (really? where are these people?), it does get rather warm here early in the year so I imagine they melt pretty quickly if you let them. Why not try some of these egg cookies? They have a light refreshing lemon flavour and can be decorated in any range of [...]

Dried fruit is a common theme amongst European Christmas treats, from the dense, rich English Christmas cake, to the sweeter German stollen, the Italians have panettone. Buttery, lightly sweetened with honey and enriched with eggs with a distinctive cupola shaped top. Of course, no one can agree quite on when it was first made or [...]

I love lemon bars, the tartness, the sweetness, the bright sunniness. After all, you can’t be sad after eating something so wonderfully bright and vibrant and summery, even in the middle of winter (which still isn’t here yet, but that doesn’t stop me). After looking around for a recipe I turned to one of my [...]

Yes, we’re still with the Halloween goodies, get used to it, we’ve got at least another week of Halloween themed treats. I know, I know, any good blogger would have planned ahead and made them before the holidays so they could go up early and provide you lovely readers with inspiration.. Well, I never said [...]

As a Christmas present to some close friends of Curious Confections (with the added bonus of being a great way to test out recipes on new people and a way to receive feedback), we decided to experiment with some chocolates and candies. We made a caramel ganache to go in some molded truffles, and a [...]