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Double chocolate peppermint cookies.

Get your festive bake on with Emelia Jackson’s Christmas cookies

Handmade biscuits are the perfect way to spread some holiday cheer – delicious, fun, and a treat everyone will enjoy.

  • Emelia Jackson
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Helen Goh recipe : Cherry, Lemon and Olive Oil Financier
Photograph by William Meppem (photographer on contract, no restrictions)
  • Recipe collection
  • Cake

10 juicy fruit-filled bakes to celebrate the start of summer

What better way to bring in summer than to fill the kitchen with sweet, berry and cherry-laden baking aromas?

Apple and dried cranberry crumble bars

This slice is equally good as a snack with coffee and tea, or for dessert plated up with vanilla ice-cream.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lemon ciambella (Italian ring cake).
EASY

Cake for breakfast? Bring it on with this lemon ciambella

This Italian breakfast cake is simple and quick to make, and stays moist for a good few days.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Shannon Martinez substitutes ricotta for tofu in her gnudi dumplings.

‘Gnocchi’s hotter sister’ plus more new vegan Italian recipes by chef Shannon Martinez

Serve these dishes to your nonna without saying they’re vegan and she won’t be able to tell the difference.

  • Shannon Martinez
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Helen Goh’s lemon, orange and almond cake.

Lemon, orange and almond cake

A simple but rich cake, fine-textured and full of bright citrus flavours.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Lemon tart.

Adam Liaw’s lemon tart

A classic lemon tart doesn’t need much “tarting up” at all. Keep it simple.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Danielle Alvarez’s polenta and strawberry scones.
EASY

Get your Sunday bake-on with these quick polenta and strawberry scones

Pre-filled with jam, these delicious little double-decker scones come together and bake up quickly.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Helen Goh recipe : Chilli and cheese cornbread muffins. Photograph by William Meppem

Five savoury muffins to bake this weekend

Warm from the oven, slathered in butter, it’s a baked treat without the sweet.

Helen Goh’s tomato, cheese and onion tart.

Tomato, cheese and onion tart

Before summer ripens the fruit, here’s a tart that makes use of the tinned variety.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh