I’m a little bit meh when it comes to making sweet treats ‘healthy’. Part of me thinks, “just have the darn sweet and move on” and part of me thinks, “how clever to pack some goodness into a biscuit.” Mostly I think nutrition has no business discussing homemade treats. So I’m defying myself every time I make…
Chocolate Crackle Bliss Balls
I made a huge batch of these for Max’s after-school party recently, and most of them came home. Or so I thought. I think I must have just made way more chocolate bliss balls than I remembered because since the party I’ve been asked by no less than FIVE mums for the recipe. So they mustn’t look…
Raspberry rum balls for Christmas [+ an amazing FREE Christmas cookbook]
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If a (wo)man is known by the company (s)he keeps, then I am amazing. Honestly, I’m kind, clever, talented, creative, wise, funny and ridiculously good looking. All my friends are. One of those friends – the kind, clever, talented, wise, funny, ridiculously good looking Amanda from Cooker and a Looker – invited me to contribute…
Chocolate and Rosemary Biscuits
Just up the road there is a front hedge grown from rosemary bushes. It smells just as delicious as you’d imagine, especially when our neighbour is trimming the hedge back. The sharp scent of rosemary gushes up and down the street, fragrancing our day Ah, divine! We have a small rosemary plant in a far-too-shady part of…
Pear, Sultana and Zucchini muffins
I was going to make some good ol’ zucchini slice for lunch one weekend using the eggs from our hens (they are laying!), but I didn’t get around to it. I think we had 2-Minute Noodles instead, which basically just left me with mum guilt and a bunch of zucchinis with nowhere to go. Enter, the…
Easiest slice recipe ever (with choc chips and yummy things)
I don’t know what to call this slice, other than ‘easiest slice ever’. It’s a tin of condensed milk, some SR flour, coconut, choc bits and butter all melted together to form something naughty but nice. This is the kind of thing that you would throw into a tin and into the oven when you…
Lime syrup cupcakes recipe
You know what, sometimes I don’t want to make a treat out of coconut, quinoa and flaxseeds. Sometimes I want an actual treat, a real treat, a good old-fashioned treat. Enter lime syrup cupcakes. I’ve got an oversupply of limes on my hands right now. I honestly don’t know how it happens. I’m usually a hoarder…
Quick mix cookies
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…
Lucy’s Mum’s no-bake chocolate slice
Once upon a time a lovely lass called Lucy had a blog called Diminishing Lucy. It was one of the very first blogs I ever read and I truly connected with Lucy through it. It was a health and fitness blog, but so much more than that. Lucy had a way of inviting us in and…
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….