• Baking

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

• Substantial salads

Adam Liaw’s pork, apple and spring onion salad

Instant coffee might seem like a strange addition but it adds a complexity to the pork that works really well with this fresh Korean-inspired salad.

• 1-2 hrs
• Adam Liaw

• Footy food

Caramelised onion, apple and pork sausage rolls

The humble sausage roll gets a homemade makeover.

• 1-2 hrs
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura

• Baking

Saint Phanourios cake (aka fanouropita) with orange, apple and walnut

You won’t easily forget this cake “for lost things”.

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh

• Baking

Morning Glory breakfast loaf

The hefty, healthy apple, pecan, carrot and raisin muffins never go out of style, says Helen Goh. Here she adapts her recipe into a loaf cake.

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh

• Vegetarian

Eat the rainbow with this chard and orzo salad with crispy feta

The combination of wholesome green leaves, crisp, salty feta and the nutty, spicy Middle Eastern condiment dukkah make this robust pasta salad irresistible.

• < 30 mins
• Jessica Brook

• Fruit desserts

Adam Liaw’s baked cinnamon apples

These buttery baked apples are comfort food made simple.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Adam Liaw

• Recipe collection
• Baking

Freshly baked recipes: Five new apple cakes to make this weekend

Apples are abundant now, and as Julia Busuttil Nishimura says, the fruit is the perfect muse for warming, spiced cakes.

• Baking

Spiced apple cake with mascarpone and maple frosting

This warming, spiced apple cake is one you’ll return to again and again.

• 1-2 hrs
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura

• Quick & easy

Steak salad with fermented black bean dressing

Salty, savoury and slightly funky, fermented soybeans add umami oomph to the dressing for this protein-rich steak salad.

• < 30 mins
• Jessica Brook