Vegan Chocolate Cloud Cake {GF}

Vegan Flourless Chocolate Cake. I had published a similar recipe in the past, but knew it needed an update. My Bittersweet Jaffa Almond Cake was good, but I wanted more. For a start, I was dreaming of something like Cloud Cake, and that cake has an unmistakable meringue-based texture, so much so that it almost…

No-Bake Chocolate Mousse Pie with Spiced Cherry Compote

Chocolate Mousse Pie with Spiced Cherry Compote {vegan, GF}

It’s amazing what gets done when one isn’t working constantly. For instance, I did some housework today. My seven-year old’s response may give an indication as to how often this occurs. T: Mummy, I’m not going to use the bathroom; it’s too clean! I’m going to use the other toilet. Then the bathroom will stay…

Chocolate Fudge Slice

Chocolate Fudge Slice {vegan, GF}

My mum moved into a new nursing home two months ago. I say new, because she has been living in residential care for 6 years now. It was great, but my father needed to downsize and providentially, there was a room in the high-care facility right next door to Dad’s new retirement unit. We miss…

Double Chocolate Banana Cake {vegan, GF}

Double Chocolate Banana Cake {vegan, GF}

I decided to wing it with this one. After all, making cakes week in and week out gives one a fair idea of how to do it right… right?! Based loosely on my own adaptation of Tracy Benjamin’s Hippy Banana Bread, and loosely on my own ideas of how to make a vegan chocolate cake,…

White Chocolate, Cranberry and Pistachio Cookies

White Chocolate, Cranberry & Pistachio Cookies

The Journey of The Magi T.S. Eliot, 1888 – 1965 A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’ And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory, Lying down in the melting…

Chocolate Fudge Dip vegan

5-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Dip {vegan}

“Being on holidays from work is fun, isn’t it, Mummy?” said my 4-year old to me the other day. “Work?” said I. “Do you mean preschool?” “Yep.” said he. It had dawned on him that being home meant that he could ‘play all day with mummy’. Not having preschool three days a week meant we could spend…

Chocolate & Raspberry Almond Cake {gf/df}

If the moniker were not already taken, I would totally rename this blog, ‘The Lazy Baker/Cook’. Because that is what I am. If I can’t whip it up within a matter of minutes, it doesn’t make the cut. Perhaps when I was younger I was attracted to highly intricate recipes, but not now. In a…

Vegan Banana, Chocolate & Chia Muffins {gf}

As a child, I dreamed of becoming a professional photographer. I wanted to capture stunning vistas and cute animals and add scripture verses to the blown-up image like the posters I saw on the walls of our house. In pursuit of the dream, I borrowed my parent’s film camera, and much to their chagrin, took…

Chocolate & Raspberry Self-saucing Pudding {vegan, with gf option}

It’s definitely winter. The weather is completely and utterly freezing (for these parts), there are rumours of snow, and all I can think about is greasy hamburgers and chocolate self-saucing pudding. I should probably take up running, to get moving, you know – to keep warm. But who wants to go outside? I’d rather curl up…

Chocolate Tahini no-bake muesli bars

Chocolate + Tahini No-Bake Muesli Bars

Without further ado, may I present… wait for it… the most perfect, light and crispy, chewy chocolate tahini muesli bars!! We made them, loved them and then realised that they were our recipe, tweaked and returned and tweaked again! I had to laugh! A blogger friend tweaked my recipe for Peanut Butter Oat Slice, then included a version of…