• Cookbook extracts

Is this updated honey joy slice even better than the OG?

Here’s what happens when a baker reimagines the cornflakes-loaded school fair stalwart. Plus two other retro baking recipes to try.

• April 3, 2025

• Opinion
• Supermarkets

In the supermarket’s most tempting aisle, a familiar problem presents itself

When it comes to after-dinner treats, two squares of dark chocolate a night will never be enough to cure our collective problems.

• March 15, 2025
• Thomas Mitchell

• Recipe collection
• Christmas

Snap! The best gingerbread recipes to share around these holidays

Bring the festive scent of Christmas into your home with these gingerbread recipes. There are cookies, cakes and slices – something for all ginger nuts.

• Cookbook extracts

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.

• December 6, 2024
• Emelia Jackson

• Baking

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

• Healthy eating

Get smart: The 10 best foods to boost your brain (plus three new recipes to try)

Keep your brain firing by adding nutrient-rich ingredients to your weekly meal rotation.

• October 7, 2024
• Sarah Pound

• Recipe collection
• Baking

Five old-fashioned biscuit recipes to bake this weekend

Take a (melting) moment for yourself this weekend with a freshly baked bikkie and a cup of tea.

• Baking

Almond shortbread jam (or marmalade) drops

You can use any kind of jam, but I recommend a particular kumquat marmalade for these thumbprint biscuits.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Helen Goh

• Baking

Sunday baking project: Helen Goh’s chocolate, rye and espresso cookies

A mocha flavoured cookie that bakes in 10 minutes.

• < 30 mins
• Helen Goh