Bars and Slices, Kiwi Classic

Lolly Cake

Prep Time : 15 Minutes | Cook Time : 0 Minutes | Total Time : 2 hours | Difficulty : Easy What’s the most Kiwi thing you can think of? For me Lolly Cake is right up there – there isn’t even a major international controversy about whether we invented it or not! I’ve been meaning to post my recipe…

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Cakes

Coffee + Pecan Cake

 Prep Time : 20 + 20 Minutes | Cook Time : 55 Minutes | Total Time : 3 hours | Difficulty : Fiddly I hope everyone is having a fun Halloween weekend filled with cookies and candy and the good kind of scares! I’m afraid this year most Kiwis’ attention has been elsewhere – preparing to get up at 5…

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Sauces

Simple Chocolate Fudge Sauce (1, 2, 3 Sauce)

 Prep Time : 2 Minutes | Cook Time : 3 Minutes | Total Time : 5 Minutes | Difficulty : Easy I know, I know it’s Halloween this week so where are all the Halloween recipes? Well I am terrible about keeping track of the timing of holidays, and go off on tangents and my cookie cutters haven’t arrived from…

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Snacks

Seeded Multi-grain Crackers

 Prep Time : 15 Minutes | Cook Time : 30 Minutes | Total Time : 1 hour | Difficulty : Easy I have been on the hunt for a good cracker recipe for a long time.  A lot of home recipes don’t have a lot of flavour, or have an off-putting texture. These are delicious on their own or piled…

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Sweets

Actually Honeycomb

 Prep Time : 15 Minutes | Cook Time : 10 Minutes | Total Time : 30 Minutes | Difficulty : Moderate As you may have read, I am a little bit obsessed with honey and this week we are putting the honey back in honeycomb! Hokey Pokey as it’s known down here in NZ is usually made with sugar and…

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Snacks

Apricot Ginger + Chocolate Bliss Balls

 Prep Time : 20 Minutes | Cook Time : None! | Total Time : 20 Minutes | Difficulty : Easy Totally unsurprisingly I am pretty big on snacks! As we all know, it’s really easy for it to get out of hand. I find that I eat much better during the week because I get prepared and I tend to…

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Cookies

Spiced Finnish Sugar Cookies

Prep Time : 10 + 10 Minutes | Cook Time : 15 Minutes | Total Time : 3 Hours | Difficulty : A Bit Fiddly I may have gone a bit crazy getting some new cookbooks lately and one of my new favourites is Scandinavian Baking by Trine Hahnemann. I have bookmarked so many things and one of the first…

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Ice Creams

No-Churn Baileys Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Prep Time : 10 Minutes | Freeze Time : 8 Hours | Total Time : 8 Hours | Difficulty : So Easy Unsurprisingly I’m an ice cream at any time kind of gal. We have team meetings at work that literally consist of going out for ice cream – going out for coffee is sooo last year dahling. So what…

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Bars and Slices

Fig + Walnut Squares

 Prep Time : 15 Minutes | Cook Time : 25 Minutes | Total Time : 1 hour | Difficulty : Easy Happy Sunday! I can’t believe how quickly my week off has gone! I got a lot of good time in the kitchen experimenting and cooking up things to share with you all – including these crispy on the outside,…

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Cakes

Lamington Layer Cake

 Prep Time : 15 + 45 Minutes | Cook Time : 45 Minutes | Total Time : 3 hours | Difficulty : Easier than you think Hello my lovelies! How was your week? I’ve been hanging out for the weekend because it means I am on holiday from my day job for a whole week yay! Which means lots of…

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