Sugar Free Chestnut Flour Cookies
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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)
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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…

Spinach & Ricotta Baked Pancakes
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Spinach & Ricotta Baked Pancakes

So I gave you my cheat’s 20 minute homemade ricotta recipe. But what to do with it? I have the answer: French buckwheat pancakes (galettes) stuffed with spinach, ricotta, peas & nutmeg, rolled and baked in a tomato sauce and grated cheese, all served with a generous grind of black pepper. Incredibly cheap (especially if…