For bakers, Easter is like Halloween. It’s that time of the year when you can tip a whole pile of leftover candy into your creation and take it to the next level, and that’s what I’ve done with these brownies. …
Category: Lunchbox
Tin can cakes
I have recently added to my collection of vintage cookbooks with some from my Great Nana, including her own recipe book. It’s at least 80 years old and is completely falling apart, and at some stage, someone re-wrote most of …
Back to school muffins (nut free + gluten free!)
We made it! Nearly 8 weeks later and we’ve survived the world’s longest school holidays. After 8 weeks of play dates, sleep overs, bickering, swimming, and lots and lots of fun, school is BACK! But I have to say that …
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Melting Moments
You know how it is when you find the perfect hairdresser and you will follow her to the end of the earth? I’ve found mine and her name is Olivia. Ever since the GPD (Great Perm Debacle) of 1992, I’ve …
Kindy muesli bars (nut free)
As I’m sure it is in most parts of the world, pretty much all pre-schools/kindys/daycares here have a nut ban, i.e. no nut butters, no loose nuts, no nuts in anything. Some even have dairy/wheat/egg bans too. It generally eases …
Peanut butter Mallowpuffs
What’s the best way to eat a Mallowpuff? Smashing it on your forehead and then picking off the chocolate before eating the rest? Or stuffing the whole thing in your mouth? I am firmly in the smashing camp. For all of you …
You put the lime in the coconut
There are some soundtracks that define a movie, and even when you might not particularly enjoy that movie, you still love the soundtrack. For me, that movie is the 1992 cult classic, Reservoir Dogs. Didn’t love it, but the soundtrack, …
Energy balls
I made these in a rush last Sunday when I realized that the school holidays were over and I had next to nothing ready for the kids lunchboxes. They are soooo easy to whip up and, apart from the chocolate …
Honey Puffs cookies
‘I should say it’s also a good time for Someone to eat honey, especially me.’ Winnie the Pooh once said, and I have to agree. I love honey, it’s one of my favourite things to eat, and like most Kiwi …
Chocolate fingers
One of the things I love about baking is the pureness of the ingredients. Here in NZ, we are so lucky to have access to ingredients that are free from chemicals, hormones and other nasty fillers. We also have trustworthy …
once upon an egg 