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…
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…
Classic Mars Bar slice
Here’s a treat – take a Mars Bar and add butter to it then stir in some puffed rice and then coat the lot in chocolate. Oh lordy, it’s like taking a murmur and turning it into a heart attack, but in a totally fine way. This is quite simply the fatty-boomstickiest slice you can make. I swear the…
Chocolate pannetone pudding
Have I told you that my very good husband likes baking? Don’t get me wrong, he’s not in the kitchen every Sunday whipping up baked goods for the week or anything (just putting that out there for when he reads this), but he likes to turn out a bread, cake or pudding on special occasions….
Celebration “porcupine” slice recipe
It’s a tradition at our school that on your birthday you bring in a little cupcake for each kid in the class to celebrate. I don’t know what was happening nine months before May 2004, but there are a lot of birthdays in Max’s class in May. This means that the kids are snarfing down…
Pandoro with mascarpone cream and raspberries
Pandoro with vanilla mascarpone cream and fresh raspberries 1 x store bought Pandoro* 1 x serve vanilla mascarpone cream (recipe below) 2 x punnet fresh raspberries Icing sugar to dust Cut the Pandoro horizontally into five even sections. Starting at the bottom (!) spread a thick layer of mascarpone cream along bread, layer raspberries all…
Toffee Butter Crunch
Sometimes American food recipes freak me out. They have really weird shit in them that probably comes out of a spray can. Stuff like ‘light corn syrup’ and ‘shortening’ – both of which you will find in this recipe from A Farmgirl’s Dabbles. That’s a seriously clunky blog name, isn’t it? It’s almost as weird…
Bill’s self-saucing chocolate pudding
Try this version of Bill Granger’s self-saucing chocolate pudding if you dare! I’m not even going to pretend that they are in any way shape or form welcome on a healthy diet. Thank god we live by the 80/20 principle, right? Do not, I repeat, do not get your weight watchers points book out for this one….