A Busy Mum’s Guide to Cutting Out Sugar
Are you a busy parent looking to cut down your family’s sugar intake? Why not hop on over to Netmums to read my Q&A with them on how to do just that.
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Ok, first avocado brownies and now spinach & chocolate cupcakes?! What am I thinking, right? Except that it totally works. These cupcakes are light, fluffy, sweet and you just wouldn’t know there is spinach in there. But spinach there is… 4 CUPS of the stuff! 5 if you add some to the icing. 🙂 These…
This light, summery, sweet cake was one of the first things I ever re-made to be low in sugar. I attempted it when we had some friends over for dinner, friends I knew to be true foodies and great cooks. They approved. Very much so. So I figured baking low sugar treats couldn’t be too…
I can say with certainty that Christmas is the hardest time of year to be sugar free. Mostly because people keep saying: “but come on, it’s Christmas!” over and over, and before you know it, your “one or two treats a week at Christmastime” limit has ended as you realise a mince pie here and…
I am a huge marzipan fan. I love it. Anything with almond extract in it is popular with me, and this is the epitome of Christmas treats in my opinion. But marzipan is loaded with sugar. Truly. It pretty much is just sugar. Not my version. My version is sugar free, beautifully soft and sweet, and…
You guys know I LOVE pumpkin spice mix. I make a big batch and basically live off it through autumn and winter (and sometimes it even crops up in spring and summer, too!). But there is another spice-based flavour mix that I really enjoy at this time of year: gingerbread. Anyone else a really big…
When I was growing up, there was a dessert I would order every.chance.I.got. No seriously. Every chance. It was called a “Dame Blanche”. It’s on a lot of restaurant menus in Belgium, and is beautifully simple but completely delicious. You take a few scoops of vanilla ice cream and pour over it a generous amount of chocolate…