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Slice

A slab of cheesy pepperoni goodness.

Holy sheet! Four hot new tray-bake saviours for easy end-of-year entertaining

The ease of one baking tray at a time is the key to surviving the silly season.

  • Katrina Meynink

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
Cookies are a sweet and simple option.

Terrible at small talk? How baking can break down barriers and win friends

Miss your old mates, or need fresh ways to find new ones? Baking queen Katherine Sabbath shows how the social power of a handmade treat can work wonders.

  • Megan Johnston
Gateau au chocolate.

RecipeTin Eats’ gateau au chocolat (aka fancy brownie dessert)

This neat trick transforms an everyday brownie to a restaurant-worthy dessert.

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
Brown butter macadamia and white chocolate blondies.
EASY

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

If you like macadamia and white chocolate cookies, you’ll love these blondies.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Halloween brownies.
EASY

Halloween brownies with chocolate ganache

A frightfully fun dessert with bonus decorating ideas for meringue ghosts, Frankenstein icing, spider web feathering and more.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh’s Carpathian vanilla slice.

Carpathian custard cake with choux pastry (aka eclair meets vanilla slice)

This Eastern European custard cake is made with choux pastry instead of puff.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Dense or fluffy – you choose.
EASY

White chocolate and roasted macadamia blondies

For a denser, less cakey brownie, skip the aeration of the butter, sugar and eggs, and simply mix together with a wooden spoon instead.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
These gooey-centred brownies just so happen to be gluten-free.
EASY

Gluten-free chocolate, buckwheat and sea salt brownies

This, my friends, is brownie perfection. Deep mud-like fudge topped with the crisp and crunch and crack of a dried creek bed. The fact this is gluten-free is incidental, but the buckwheat flour is a must, it adds a glorious nutty background flavour. And the staying power puts it over and above most freshly baked goods.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
This updated zucchini slice is heavy on the bacon.

Zucchini slice with a hidden layer of bacon

The sneaky layer of bacon in the middle is an unexpected and now entirely necessary addition to the old zuccha slice from this point forward.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/goodfood/topic/slice-l9j