Category: Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things
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Delicious Vegan Chickpea Blondies Recipe
A couple of months ago I posted a recipe for black bean brownies, soon after I posted that recipe I started making these chickpea blondies and I haven’t made the brownies since. In the battle of the bean based sweet treats these blondies have won. They are vegan, gluten free and potentially (if you use…
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Vegan Black Bean Brownies That Taste Amazing
I’ve seen various versions of these black bean brownies on Instagram for years before I decided to actually make them. The reason for my reluctance was the whole combination of black beans, chocolate and avocado seemed a bit ‘ick’. Dairy-free, gluten-free and vegan- friendly, something so nutritionally virtuous could not possibly make a decent sweet…
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Moist Orange Poppyseed Cake Recipe with Almond Flour
I’m on an ayurvedic diet at the moment which has cut plain wheat flour and refined sugar from my diet. This means I haven’t been baking that many cakes and biscuits and when I have baked I’ve been experimenting with using different flours and sugar replacements like monkfruit. Sugar replacements like monkfruit are super expensive…
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Wholesome Seed Bars: A Healthy Sweet Treat Recipe
I’ve made these seed bars a few times as a wholesome sweet treat. The first couple of times I dipped them in chocolate, which made them a slightly decadent and delicious treat. This time, I was making them for this post and I kept procrastinating about the chocolate and ended eating the batch without the…
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Classic Swedish Ginger Thins Recipe for Christmas
I have a love hate relationship with Christmas in Australia. Pros are that it’s summer and we can go to the beach, eat mangoes and cherrries and have water fights in the back yard after Christmas lunch. Cons are that it’s summer, its humid and hot and we spend far too much time making and…
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Irresistible – Salted Sesame Chocolate Cookies Recipe with Tahini and Dark Chocolate
I’ve got quite a few chocolate chip cookie recipes on this website, and each one of those recipes in some way aspires to greatness so I’m a bit reluctant to add yet another chocolate chip cookie into the canons of cookie greatness … but these cookies!!! I recently made a double batch of these to…
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Easy Vegan Chocolate Mousse with a Mexican Twist
I used to make these chocolate puddings regularly about eight years ago, when this recipe was doing the rounds of a lot of food blogs. I have noticed similar versions of vegan chocolate tofu mousse have recently gone viral on Instagram. It is such simple recipe that it perfect for an Instagram reel. Basically you…
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Alison Roman’s chocolate chunk shortbread recipe | Salty and Sweet!
I made this chocolate chunk shortbread for the second year running as part of my Christmas cookie menu and OMG it was such a hit both times. Youngs, olds everyone loves this shortbread. They are salty and sweet and have this delicious crunchy fringe of demerara sugar that is spectacularly good. This year I made…
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Perfect Chocolate Sables Recipe for Christmas
I used to make chocolate sables as one of my Christmas biscuits for years, but I stopped making them a few years ago (Much to the disappointment of my nieces) because the sable biscuit recipe I used was too delicate and prone to falling apart in the heat and humidity of an Australian Christmas. This…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 