A Dash of Ginger

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Choc Chip Banana Oat Muffins

Choc Chip Banana Oat Muffins: Light & fluffy muffins made with bananas, oats, greek yoghurt & honey (plus chocolate for good measure!) I’ve always thought that ‘healthy’ versions of cakes are a waste of time. Far better to have the real thing (which actually tastes good) as part of a balanced diet. So, it came as a surprise to me when I found myself baking Read Post

Chocolate Orange Tart

Chocolate Orange Tart: Shortcrust pastry with a light and creamy chocolate orange filling. The perfect make-ahead dessert! Today’s recipe is brought to you from my sickbed. By which I mean I have a cold, am feeling sorry for myself and have been totally insufferable this weekend. Honestly, if Ricky can put up with my blocked nose induced complaining, he can handle anything! I had grand Read Post

Crunchy Peanut Butter Bars

Crunchy Peanut Butter Bars: A super easy, 5 ingredient, no bake recipe for chocolate peanut butter bars. Here’s the deal: I wanted to come up with a super quick, super easy recipe for all you people that have more exciting lives aren’t into whole afternoons in the kitchen. Obviously, the place to start was with two of my favourite ingredients: peanut butter and chocolate.

Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies: Chewy cookies that are flavoured with brown butter and packed full of chocolate chunks!I know you guys are here for one thing and one thing only: gooey, chewy brown butter chocolate chunk cookies! But before we get to the good stuff, I have a teeny tiny favour to ask.

Snickers Birthday Cake

Ah guys, this cake! This Snickers birthday cake has been both a labour of love and my biggest nemesis. Before I put you off, the cake tastes insanely good and each part is easy to make. I’m just an unfortunate combination of terrible-at-cake-decorating and a perfectionist. You see my problem?

Homemade Christmas Stollen

Ahh say hello to the beauty that is homemade Christmas stollen! Stollen has long been one of my favourite festive treats so I was pretty stoked to try making it at home. (My mum, however, was less excited as she’s bought some especially for me coming home at Christmas. I assured her I’ll have no problem eating that too!)

Dark Chocolate Lebkuchen

When I shared a picture of these dark chocolate lebkuchen on instagram a few weeks ago, you guys seemed preeeetty into them. And, for good reason. There’s not much better than something sweet dipped in dark chocolate! That shiny chocolate was waaay too tempting. I’m not even gonna admit how many of these I managed to get through during this shoot…

Chocolate Orange Bread Wreath

If you follow me on instagram or twitter, you’ve probably seen this chocolate orange bread wreath way too many times already. I can’t even apologise for that because it just needed to be shared. Guys, I think I’ve outdone myself with this one. This buttery, chocolatey baked joy, warm straight from the oven, is an absolute dream.

Salted Caramel Macadamia Blondies

Guys, let me start with a warning. If you’re hungry, go get a snack, right now. You do not wanna be looking at delicious salted caramel macadamia blondies with a rumbling tummy.