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A couple of years ago on The Great British Bake Off, the contestants were set a difficult technical bake called “Povitica“. It was an Eastern European sweet Christmastime bread with a chocolate and walnut paste swirl, and the dough had to be stretched as thin as possible to a ridiculously large rectangle and rolled with…
Stollen is one of my favourite Christmas treats. I adore marzipan, and the soft, not-too-sweet dough combined with the marzipan centre and mincemeat-flavour is just delightful. I truly feel like it must be Christmas when I get to bite into a snowy piece of stollen. When my parents lived in Bratislava, Slovakia, I went to…
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…
Are you looking to have a slightly less unhealthy and sugar-packed Christmas season? Hoping to keep the kids’ sugar highs and crashes to a minimum? Trying to find out if having a healthier Christmas means compromising on flavour or decadence? I am here to tell you you can eat all of the luxurious-tasting, indulgent, traditional…
Sometimes I can be a bit down on potatoes. My reasoning is not totally unjustified. After all, they are classed as a carbohydrate rather than a vegetable, and certainly contain only a smidgen of the nutrients found in many root vegetables or its “sweet” relation. But the truth is, potatoes do contain plenty of goodness….
My ginger cake with toffee sauce was my fall cake stunner. It was the decadent and delicious cake above all cakes for a low sugar Halloween or Bonfire Night or Thanksgiving. And now, I give you my Christmas equivalent. Coconut cake. Marshmallow frosting. Light, airy, candy-floss-textured icing topping a moist, filling and gorgeously luxurious coconut…