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…
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…
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….
Wholemeal Choc-chip banana muffins
I’m on a bit of a roll with the banana recipes. The banana buttermilk pikelets were a hit, but one can never have enough options for using up manky bananas (I’m sure the Queen said that). I don’t know if it’s the great gluts of rain we were recently seeing in Sydney, but I couldn’t…
Raspberry and white choc muffins
Another classic this week. I’ve been making these babies for a long time from a torn piece of A4 paper with scribbles, but I think the recipe might have been a Nigella that I adapted to reduce the enormous butter quantity (yes, definitely a Nigella!). I do the wholemeal flour option to try to kid…
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….