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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….
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…
Celebrations like Christmas can be such a minefield for those of us trying to keep our families eating low sugar most of the time. While there is no problem with occasional treats, there is no time of year where we spend quite so much time in one go saying “go on then” to yet another…