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Back at work? 20 sweet bakes to help butter up your workmates

Make friends and influence people with these sweet easy-to-transport treats.

20 recipes
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lemon ciambella (Italian ring cake).
EASY

Lemon ciambella (Italian breakfast cake)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Emelia Jackson’s blueberry crumble cookies.
EASY

Blueberry cookies with crumble

  • < 30 mins
  • Emelia Jackson
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lime and coconut sheet cake.
EASY

Lime and triple coconut sheet cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Chocolate and almond pasticcini
EASY

Chocolate and almond pasticcini

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Everyday chocolate cake with whipped cocoa cream.
EASY

‘Everyday chocolate cake’ with whipped cocoa cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Brown butter, macadamia and white chocolate blondies.
EASY

This ‘blondie’ slab is like a giant white chocolate and macadamia cookie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Twice as nice: Hedgehog with double caramel, double biscuit and double chocolate.
EASY

Double chocolate caramel hedgehog slice

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink

Berry and custard traybake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Adam Liaw's salted white chocolate cookies.
EASY

Salted white chocolate cookies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Cherry Garcia slice. Updated slice recipes for Good Food, March 2020. Images and recipes by Katrina Meynink. Good Food use only.
EASY

Cherry Garcia slice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
You can use any kind of jam here, but Stephanie Alexander’s mum’s kumquat marmalade is a must try.
EASY

Almond shortbread jam (or marmalade) drops

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
These gooey-centred brownies just so happen to be gluten-free.
EASY

Gluten-free chocolate, buckwheat and sea salt brownies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw’s banana biscuits.
EASY

Simple banana biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
If you have a sweet tooth, these salted honey and tahini shortbreads will help you limit your after dinner snacking.
EASY

Salted honey and tahini shortbread

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Caramel slice 2.0 with an extra layer of chocolate.

Chocolate ganache, salted cashew and caramel slice

  • Katrina Meynink
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Lightly torched cupcakes.

Raspberry meringue cupcakes

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Helen Goh’s Morning glory loaf cake.
EASY

Morning Glory breakfast loaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh

Mango, passionfruit and pistachio lamingtons

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Apricot, almond and cardamom cake.
EASY

Apricot, almond and cardamom cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
These financiers use olive oil instead of the traditional beurre noisette.

Cherry, lemon and olive oil financiers

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/back-at-work-20-sweet-bakes-to-help-butter-up-your-workmates-20240105-p5evfb.html