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Baking is not immune to trends.

Remember when we all started makingsourdoughduring the pandemic?

Sometimes food trends surround an ingredient, like thebaconphenomenon of the mid-aughts and early 2010s.

Passionfruit

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In the United States, the fruit is grown commercially in Florida, Hawaii, and California.

Inside, the fruit features many edible small seeds surrounded by a yellowish-orange aril containing its juice.

Sweetened condensed milk buttercream in particular is becoming quite popular.

a can of condensed milk beside a bowl with milk and a spoon

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Alternative sugars are ascending!

Coconut sugar, dark muscovado, date sugar, etc.

People are realizing that sugar can carry flavors other than simple sweetness," says Tamarkin.

Southern Living Cookies and Cream Cinnamon Rolls milk mixture in saucepan

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