Sometimes you don’t want to muck around making the world’s best chocolate chip cookies. Because biscuits like that involve creaming the sugar and butter for a rather long time. Sometimes you just want a quick mix biscuit recipe that you can whip up in a storm. This is that recipe. It will take you 5…
Lovely lemon and coconut muffins
I’ve tried for years, but I couldn’t get the kids even remotely interested in eating brown or whole grain bread. I’ve been reading Michael Pollan’s wonderful In Defense of Food and it’s made me realise that if they will only eat white bread full of artificial crap, just don’t serve them bread. So I’ve pretty much stopped…
A date loaf worth dating
As many of you will know, afternoon tea is the fourth core meal of the day at our place. We stop for a shared afternoon tea most days of the week. It’s not always cakes and muffins and slices and biscuits, but usually it is. We tend to have our sweet treat for afternoon tea and save…
Nut-free bliss balls
Have you made bliss balls yet? They are kind of unavoidable. I consider these nut free bliss balls to be the healthy version of the cake pop phenomenon of 2012. Only much, much easier to make. Pop one of these balls into the lunch box for a hit of energy to power the recess handball game….
Good-for-you chocolate crackle slice
It goes without saying that the Badoo requested the Mars Bar slice to take into school for her recent birthday. I was still reeling after Max’s birthday as at least half the class sent home requests from their mum for the recipe. “Um, yeah, there’s nothing good in there,” I told the mums. “It’s a…
Blueberry and oat bars
Are things containing blueberries ever not amazingly delicious? Of course, if you don ‘t actually like blueberries I imagine that things containing them wouldn’t taste so good. Probably. But if, like me, you can’t get enough of the purple berry they call blue, then this recipe is one you’ll make again and again and again. I’ve…
Healthy choc fudge full of good-for-you things
I picked up a little book from the library by Collette White called “Lunch box solutions“.* Turns out Collette has an empire of “Cut out the Crap” book and a blog. Collette’s recipes are gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, refined sugar-free and preservative-free. This is lunchbox freeeeeedom. I based this Rosy choc fudge on Collette’s Choc mint fudge….
Paleo chocolate, banana and zucchini muffins
Okay, so these muffins are not really 15,000 years old, but the original recipe I got them from is billed as one of those paleo recipes, so I figured it must be very, very, very old. I don’t really mean to mock the whole paleo thing, not the least bit because I’ve heard if you are…
Lovely old-fashioned pound cake
When we think of ‘cake’, this is the cake that we’re thinking of. That yellow slab of rich, buttery goodness that is the old-fashioned ‘pound’ cake. The pound cake was named after the classic 1:1:1:1 pound of flour, butter, sugar and eggs, but the recipe has been refined over time and the doorstop slabs of…
Easy-peasy pumpkin muffins
We call these muffins “punky muffins” because that’s what Cappers always called them as a toddler and that’s how long I’ve been making these muffins. Pumpkin has always been a huge favourite of mine and it’s one of those lovely sweet-savoury vegetables that lifts a lot of dishes. Every time I roast some punkies (which is…