10,000 sugar recipes

Candied dill pickles transformed from store-bought dills into sweet-tart spears with sugar, vinegar, bay, and cloves. The Southern grandma trick that turns ordinary pickles into addictive snacking.

Baker's truffles roll melted semi-sweet chocolate with creamed butter, egg yolk, powdered sugar, and vanilla into 1-inch chilled candy balls coated in chopped nuts or coconut. Old-school no-cream truffles with deep cocoa richness.

Ginger bread is one of the classic and traditional cookies people make for Christmas. The rich flavor from brown sugar and molasses is so good and the spices make the uniquely delicious taste.

Make this German chocolate cake with natural sweeter or sugar replacement, it's still chocolaty, rich and delicious and even your diabetic family member or friend can enjoy one slice or two.

Miniature pecan pies bake up in 17 minutes for a one-bite holiday treat. Dark corn syrup filling, chopped pecans, and an egg-white-sealed tart shell keep the bottoms crisp. Sixteen tarts per batch.

What's for dessert at Christmas day? How about some homemade candy cane ice cream? It's made of low-fat milk, egg yolks and crushed candy cane. It's creamy and silky, crushed candy cane adds some crunch and minty sweetness. Don't have to pay high price for hagen daz, this is as good as hagen daz, and it's lower fat.

These donuts are healthier as they're baked not fried. Glaze or roll in cinnamon sugar.

Buttermilk chocolate tea bread bakes a tangy buttermilk batter with cocoa powder into a tender quick-bread loaf. Perfect with afternoon tea or sliced thick for breakfast.

I used the whole wheat flour, 2 eggs, and my bread was very fluffy and delicious.

Moist honey cornbread muffins, sweetened with honey and brown sugar for a tender, golden crumb that's never dry or crumbly. A quick, one-bowl batch ready in under 30 minutes for any dinner table.

Old-fashioned Nova Scotian baked beans: dried beans slow-baked for hours with salt pork, onion, molasses, and mustard into deep, sweet-savory comfort. The real Maritime tradition, from scratch.

Love strawberry? Love ice cream? Love the smooth, creamy and fruity flavor? Then this is your recipe :)

Store-bought ice cream can never beat homemade ice cream, such as this chocolate fresh mint ice cream. It tastes minty-chocolaty, silky and rich. You won't believe it's actually made with 1% milk.

Breakfast waffles with soda use fizzy club soda for an extra-light, crispy waffle from a few pantry ingredients. The carbonation aerates the batter, so the waffles bake up airy inside and crisp outside.

Cranberry Cocktail Meatballs, First introduced to our family for my sister's puppy shower. My daughter Lindsey can eat the whole batch and requests them for every holiday.

Light-as-air angel biscuits with a Southern double-rise of yeast and baking powder. Tender, fluffy, golden-topped, and ready to split open at supper to soak up gravy, butter, or strawberry jam.