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a person is holding some sugar plums on a plate with grass sprinkled around them

233K likes, 1198 comments. “Homemade Sugar Plums for Day 9 of our Recipe Advent Calendar! ✨🧚‍♀️ Sugar plums originally referred to a hard candy made of hardened sugar that typically surrounded a nut or spice. The term “plum” came from the round/oval shape. While there are various interpretations of a sugar plum nowadays, at some point in the 21st century, this version of sugar plums became the most popular recipe. Essentially, it’s just a mixture of various dried fruits, nuts and aromatic…

the word sugar plum spelled out in scrabbled letters and dices on a table

Ann Peplinski 🎨🎨 shared a post on Instagram: "Today’s color is sugar plum. It’s not one of the big five traditional Christmas colors but it is associated with Christmas and I had to address it because I love it so. 🧚‍♂️💜 When most of us try to envision the color sugar plum we think of a purple-ish color. But did you know sugar plums didn’t start out with a color and they weren’t even plums. Traditionally a sugar plum was a hard candy and an extremely labor intensive candy to produce. It…

small pastries on a white plate topped with powdered sugar and an edible flower

After plans were made for an impromptu picnic, I awoke early on the Sunday and decided to make some small vanilla custard sugar plum tarts to take with us rather than buy some. The custard I used was based on the sweet vanilla custard in Portuguese custard tarts as it is sweet and thick and I used up the last of the Careme puff pastry that I had in my freezer. They were done quickly and the thicker pastry was crunchy and buttery and shattered against the softness of the baked fruit and the…

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