Tag: baking
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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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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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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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Rhubarb Innovation: Savory and Sweet Roasted Recipe | The Backyard Lemon Tree
A few weeks ago a friend bought me a beautiful bunch of homegrown rhubarb from her garden on the Southern Highlands. I procrastinated for a couple of days about what to make in celebration of my rhubarb bounty – apple and rhubarb crumble or a rhubarb cake but in our house leftover deserts and cake…
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Rustic No-Knead Peasant Bread Recipe
At the start of all the pandemic stockpiling madness I was very superior about other people’s supermarket meltdowns. I had just received my regular delivery of 48 toilet paper rolls from Who Gives a Crap, a supply which lasts for over 3 months. My toilet paper situation was well under control so the videos of…
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Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe
About six months ago I became obsessed with Texas chocolate sheet cake and went on a hunt for the perfect recipe. The only problem? Texas sheet cake is baked in a half sheet pan, which is too large for the average Australian oven. I thought about getting a quarter sheet pan and halving the sheet…
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