Bruna’s Brilliant Brigadeiro

Makes  20 Bruna brought these delicious sweet treats to our International Food Fest! It's a traditional Brazilian sweet treat and usually served at parties. Bruna served her Brigadeiro in a dish [Read More]

Date and LSA Muffins

Makes 12 These little beauties contain LSA, a combination of linseed (flaxseed), sunflower seed and almond, which is made into a ground meal. It's packed with fibre and protein, so eating one of [Read More]

Donna Hay’s Raspberry and Oat Muffins

Makes 12 I tweaked these from Donna Hay's Fresh and Light Cookbook and also converted them to the Thermomix . There's all the yumminess I have come to expect from Donna's recipes,  but just as the [Read More]

Nigella’s Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

Cuts into 8-12 slices It's no secret that I love chocolate. A lot. However, I have a bit of an appetite anomaly because although I love chocolate, I don't really love chocolate cakes or chocolate [Read More]

Triple Chocolate Cookies

Makes 24 I don't think I ever met a chocolate I didn't like. So of course, I'm loving  these cookies with a chocolate trifecta - dark, milk and white! Three lots of chocolate, that's thrice as [Read More]

Double Chocolate Shortbread

Makes 24 (+ 24) Bake a double batch of this dark 'n' delicious shortbread so that there's always some ready and waiting when you want to indulge! If you want to whip these up in your Thermomix, you [Read More]

Naughty Chocolate Fudge Cake

Serves 8 I'm a bit of a chocolate loving paradox because I love eating chocolate but I'm not overly keen on chocolate desserts. I'm not overly keen on chocolate cakes either and I think it's [Read More]

Whole Orange Polenta Cake

I love making cakes with polenta because it gives cakes such a wonderful texture. Citrus flavours go great with polenta and this orange cake is a real winner, perfect for dessert or a teatime treat. I [Read More]