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30+ Low Sugar Recipes for a Healthier Christmas

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…

40+ Minutes | Desserts | One-Bowl | Vegetarian | Weekend Bakes

Sugar Free Coconut Christmas Cake

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…

Low Sugar Chocolate Truffles

I love making homemade edible gifts for friends at Christmas. Lemon curd, vanilla extract, jams, biscuits, hot chocolate mixes… people always seem to enjoy getting something sweet and indulgent to enjoy over Christmas. I have a few low sugar options I keep up my sleeve for just such an occasion, and this is one of…

30 Minutes | Desserts | One-Bowl | Snacks + Sauces | Vegetarian

Sugar Free Speculoos Biscuits (Spiced Christmas Cookies)

St Nicholas’ Day (December 6th) was a big deal for us growing up in Belgium. The “original Santa Claus” would come into our schools with his frighteningly politically incorrect pageboy (the excuse was that he was a chimney sweep) and hand out sweets and the beautifully caramelised spiced biscuit known as speculaas or speculoos. As young schoolchildren, we…

Sugar Free Chestnut Flour Cookies

Growing up in Belgium, the approach to Christmas – particularly around the celebration of St Nicholas’ Day – contained a lot of biscuits. Speculoos cookies, to be precise. I love them. Oh-so-much. And I’m working on a good recipe for them for December 6th if I can. But I have been hiding another seasonal biscuit…

Sugar Free Portuguese Custard Tarts (Pastéis de Nata)

I’ve baked my way through my fair share of technical challenges from the Great British Bake Off. I did every single technical challenge from the 2014 series, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but giving up sugar a few months later changed my attitude towards attempting the bakes! I made a few sugar free versions of some…