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Lemon tart is one of my husband’s favourite desserts. I knew I would struggle to get him to sign up to being a low sugar family long-term if it meant he’d miss out on this particular treat. And while there is nothing wrong with having a slice of standard lemon tart every now and then,…
How has it taken me so long to get this recipe to you all? I’ve had a really really good lemon curd recipe up my sleeve for quite a while now. It’s come out for Christmas presents and occasionally during the year in our house. I’ve missed it, and as lemon season rears its lovely…
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…
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…
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…