Cooking for busy mums’ choc chip slice with white chocolate and macadamia nuts
This is my favourite chocolate chip slice recipe. It is so easy to make in the Thermomix when you are able to melt butter and mix the ingredients all in the one bowl.

I love making Easter chocolate treats for my family. My favourite chocolate is white chocolate and I have also been a huge cookies and cream fan. However since going gluten free I haven’t been able to eat it and it’s the one thing I haven’t tried to replicate. Until now!

One of my favourite salads to make in the Thermomix is a broccoli salad from the recipe community. Broccoli, apple and capsicum with a honey, mustard and vinegar dressing. It is the easiest thing to pop all the ingredients into the TM bowl and let the machine do the work. Over the years I have added to the recipe and made a few changes.

When bananas start to brown I pop them in the freezer to use in smoothies or for baking. While my go to is normally plain banana bread I like to mix things up around Christmas time and make banana cherry bread when cherries are in season.

Yummy pretzel, cranberry and white chocolate bark. sweet, salty, sour, crunchy – delicious! Makes 3-4 gift sized serves. The chocolate bark recipe can easily be doubled or tripled.

These colourful vanilla cookies are a lovely treat for any occasion. As you can imagine they are a favourite with kids. You can find the Thermomix conversion here as well.

This is my go to chocolate cake recipe. I normally make it in a ring shaped tin and pour the warm icing over the top. The moistness of the cake comes from the carrot and the chocolate icing forms a hard shell.

Nutella brioche just sounds like a combination. Despite being gluten free I can’t remember the last time I was this excited to make something that I can’t eat. Perhaps it was the Christmas spirit.

honey sesame bars I love buying these little sesame bars from the supermarket so I thought i’d try and make them myself. I have converted the recipe for the Thermomix. Original recipe and list of ingredients available at Lemon & Olives. Thermomix directions 1. Dry …

Inspired by Martha Stewart’s thumbprint biscuits these cute little spider biscuits are fun to make, look a little scary and a delicious Halloween treat.

gluten free/dairy free apple polenta cake This delicious and easy to make gluten free/dairy free apple polenta cake was made in an attempt to use up a surplus of apple puree we had in our freezer. My son used to enjoy eating the puree with cereal …

coconut, green tea mango ice cream I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Ice cream is a weakness of mine and I do love to trial making new flavours at home. Green tea soft serve sounds delicious and perfect for a warm …

lollipop shaped vanilla cakes decorated in chocolate A couple of years ago I ordered a silicone cake pop mould online. They look amazing and are a lot of fun to make but very time consuming. I probably spent 2-3 hours decorating a batch of cake …

I had the idea for this rocky road after making a dessert pizza and having left over ingredients. It has a great combination of textures and flavours.

nut-free chocolate zucchini muffins by Against All Grain No need to hide vegetables in food at my house… well sometimes anyway! My little munchkins helped me make these nut free chocolate zucchini muffins from Against All Grain and saw all the yummy green zucchini make its …

Matt Preston’s coconut soft serve with just TWO ingredients! This is one of the easiest ice cream recipes you will find.

At my in-laws request I made a baked cheesecake filled with white chocolate and topped with raspberries. At the time i was on a gluten free diet so I used gluten free biscuits for the base.

CADA coconut, apple, dates and almonds) plus pineapple If you like piña coladas… And CADA (Coconut, Apple, Dates and Almonds) you will love this! I had some left over pineapple in the fridge and decided to substitute the dates for the pineapple. The result was …

Oh my peanut butter, banana, chocolate goodness! These peanut butter cups are delicious. While you can make these without a Thermomix I have written a conversion below.

Carrot cake muffins with spiced honey glaze from Donna Hay are the perfect combination of sweet, savoury and a hint of spice. They are also a cute way of including cream cheese as opposed icing.