Easy Christmas Chocolate shortbread is the best thing to make when you have run out of time to do your Christmas baking! It’s December and I think I might have run out of time to marinate fruit and make Christmas pudding! I always have plans and then I always wake up and think….oh no its…
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Fruit Mince Muffins – Great for Christmas
Fruit Mince Muffins are totally easy and completely remind me of Christmas. I asked one of my Italian work colleagues this week what kind of things she and her friends eat at Christmas here in Australia. She has been here for 8 years now and is an Australian citizen. We were standing in front of…
Chocolate Refrigerator Cake
Make this Chocolate Refrigerator cake any old time. It can be made gluten free by replacing the biscuits with gluten free ones. Chocolate Refrigerator Cake This makes a great Easter treat and reminds me of holidays by the beach as a teenager. I was locked in the annex to the caravan. Really? Did he think…
Last Minute Christmas pudding
Strictly speaking, I’m not really down with the tradition of Christmas pudding. Christmas in Australia is more of a Pavlova or Panacotta type of affair. Ice cream and summer berries always fits better with our climate. My Mothers side of the family came from English stock and my Fathers side arrived unceremoniously on the First…
Christmas Slice fast, no commitments necessary
This is the baking for you if you left it to the last minute. Christmas Slice fast, no commitments necessary! Christmas apparently is not the time to start new things. It’s not time to commit to anything new or start any thing that needs change. Everyone is just trying to get to the end of…
Christmas or anytime Ice Cream Cake without a Machine
I love Christmas lights. They bring back a tiny sliver of childish excitement each time I pass a house that has them twinkling in the pre-Christmas rush. It reminds me of when my son was little and we’d drive for miles looking for the houses with the best lights. When he was very young, we’d…
Melted Snowman Brownies
These are the cutest little brownies you could have at Christmas, don’t you think?. Melted Snowman Brownies are the perfect Christmas fun! These Melted Snowmen Brownies are cute aren’t they? We never really had any Christmas traditions in our house growing up. Mum and Dad both worked and Christmas usually involved a fruit salad and…
Chocolate Cake Halloween Style
Chocolate cake Halloween style. This amazing cake is the perfect. Its an easy stir together recipe that makes a moist chocolatey cake thats great for layering. Halloween has been extra big this year, already. Not only have I been dressed as a Vampire at Not Quite Nigella’s annual Halloween party but this is my second…
Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes
These are more than Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes. They’re witch Cupcakes and they’re both easy AND gluten free. On the wrong side of 40 something clicks in your brain and you just don’t care anymore. It’s a short and slippery slope from here in and I am afraid that I want to have a laugh as…
Fruit Mince Slice with Crumble Top
If you love fruit mince tarts you just do. It’s really mostly about the pastry with rich sweet fruit. This version is a quick way around cutting, shaping, baking, and filling. A fruit mince slice with crumble top is everything you love about tarts but easier!! The perfect last minute Christmas Slice. The plan at…
Individual Tiramisu for Easter
Individual Tiramisu is a cute treat and a great twist on a classic. imagine a Tiramisu all to yourself? I suppose everyone has a memory of the first time they tried Tiramisu. The layers of creamy mascarpone, laced with coffee and liqueur, coated in chocolate and cocoa. My first taste was in Florence, Italy. On…
Frozen Chocolate Mousse Hearts
Frozen Chocolate Mousse Hearts, Rose Syrup and Candied Pistachios is the ultimate in love desserts, if appropriate…….. This could be a story of love and devotion to my Valentine, but it’s not. It was decided a long time ago that I would just share my friends husbands because it is conceivably possible that I…
Christmas Cakes last minute stir together
Yes I know it seems everyone has been making things for Christmas and you have been too busy to start. Well, here is the best last minute Christmas Cake that you will find. Its easy, fast and takes no marinating or beating and uses just the one pot. Decorate them or leave them plain. Bite sized Christmas…