This recipe is the our easy, go-to, never-fail birthday cake base. We have been making it for years and everyone always loves it. Making a birthday cake can sometimes feel daunting but trust me, this is so, so easy! My kids make it all the time themselves without any worries. Birthday cakes are so expensive these…
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Cool Ideas for Easter (that aren’t chocolate)
Cool Ideas for Easter (that aren’t chocolate) This ancient pagan celebration has somehow turned into a commercialised chocolate-fest! The pressure is on parents to make Easter another Christmas but with copious amounts of cheap, nasty chocolate. It’s easy for kids to get caught up the hype. Okay, so how do you participate in Easter, enjoy some…
Chocolate Cherry Tart (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
We don’t eat a lot of desserts or sweets but every year for Christmas Eve, I make up something special for dinner. This year I was thinking about chocolate and cherries because, you know …… yum! Mandy from Crio Bru Australia kindly sent me some Vega Real flavour and I turbo-chocolated this tart with it….
Macadamia Chocolate Fudge
This fudge is so quick and easy to make. Once you have the base sorted, you can top it with anything you like! Try all different types of nuts, coconut, goji berries, ginger or any dried fruit. For a supercharged nutrient boost, add some Superfoods for Kidz powders. It’s not sickly sweet and it’s packed full of nutrients….
Chocolate Chip Brownies
Chocolate Chip Brownies I have been playing around with this Chocolate Chip Brownies recipe for a while, tweaking and fiddling until I got a texture I liked. It’s moist, fudgy and quite delicious (if I do say so myself). 😉 I hadn’t used choc chips in cooking for ages. Everytime I checked the ingredients…
Healthy Chocolate Muffins!
My gorgeous daughter has done it again. She has a love affair with chocolate and created these babies, inspired by a recipe at Elana’s pantry. They are sooooo good! Lovely and moist with lots of chocolatey flavour. You can ice them with whatever you like, but they really don’t need it. DID YOU…
Homemade Chocolate Chai Syrup
I was gifted a yummy chai elixir some time ago and the kids have been begging me to buy some more. The health food store has it, so I checked it out. Not only was it expensive, its first ingredient was sugar. I thought …. surely I could make this at home! I have been…
Rich Chocolate Cake
I was so proud of my girl (age 12) for making this cake all by herself. She found a recipe, adapted it, thermified it, Aussified it, cooked it, iced and decorated it when I was out one day. I came home to chocolate cake heaven. When I tasted it, I couldn’t believe how delicious…
Healthy home-made chocolate bars!
Do you have a favourite chocolate bar? I know one blogger who has a thing for Cherry Ripe! Mine would have to be a Caramello Koala, but I haven’t had one in quite some time. Although I think it’s totally fine to have these occasionally, how much more awesome is it when…
Real Food Chocolate Drinks for Kids
You may have noticed an uproar on Facebook last week about these new Coco Pops chocolate drinks. These drinks have made the ‘green light’ category for Australian school canteens. That means it’s classified as a healthy food. Ummmm…. right. Here is what Kellogs have to say: “With over 400,000 Australian kids and one in four…