Sweets + Desserts

Yay! Another delivery from Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbooks with a book I worked on last year. This one is called Made From Scratch and it features trusted recipes to make basic foods that you may not have thought to make before, such as your own fresh cheeses, butter, breads, smoked…

So recently I have been on the search for edible glitter for an upcoming post and geez louise it’s expensive!! All for some pretty sparkly sugar! So I was scouring Pinterest and came across a recipe for DIY glitter sugar. After a few tweaks I had what I was looking…

Today I am sharing a really simple recipe for banana pancakes BUT they are nice and thick and fluffy which I have been trying to achieve for awhile now as Max doesn’t munch well on thin, floppy pancakes. Make them small for little hands or big for hungry adults, either…

Woot woot! Another brilliant Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook is out – Sugar Free – and this time it’s all about eating well without refined sugar! It has great breakfast, lunch and dinner ideas as well as treats for the 3pm slump and sweet fixes. The team at AWW have been…

Ok so maybe I am using the word ‘healthy’ quite loosely here but this deliciously fudgy chocolate cake is gluten, dairy and refined sugar free! It’s made extra moist with sweet potato mash, I know that sounds a bit crazy, but it works! I apologise in advance for the not-so-flash photos…

Can you believe it? The emerald + ella store has been trading for 5 years this month. Wow, where has the time gone?! It feels like the online world has changed dramatically over that time and I have learnt so so much. Growing up I never expected that I would…

How sweet are these strawberry-filled pie pops?! They are super fun for a kitchen tea or bridal shower. Can’t you imagine the pics now? All the ladies in their pretty dresses eating dainty heart-shaped pies. They would also be great as part of a dessert buffet. Strawberry heart pie pops was…

Okay so I got you in here with ‘salted caramel’ didn’t I? Well I’m glad you came because these date caramels (made by moi!) from recently released Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook – Eating Well – are not only delicious but they are also paleo, vegan, gluten-, dairy-, egg- and sugar-free!!!…

As I was making these I was imagining a beautiful white winter wedding with the bride draped in faux fur and snowflakes drifting from the sky. In reality, most Australian winter weddings are probably in lovely crisp sunshine but a girl can dream can’t she? Either way, your wedding guests…

Yay! Another Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook I worked on has been released and this one is a goodie! It’s called Express and all the recipes are fast, fresh and on the table in less than 40 minutes. What’s also cool about this book is that chapters are divided up into…