Sweet Treats

Spice Up Your Life: Gingerbread Cookie Christmas Bites

Mother Nature really is extraordinary! The powerful medicinal properties of a huge array of herbs have been used all over the world for centuries, with nature's own medicine to treat a huge variet...

Spiced Peanut Butter Fudge Cookies

Happy Friday! Christmas is edging closer and there’s definitely no escaping it now… have you guys got into the festive spirit yet?! I’m not feeling that Christmassy so far, even though we put up our Chri...

Chocolate Banana Cake

Chocolate banana cake and a cup of tea. What more could you possibly want of a dark, chilly winter evening?! This delicious cake came about because, like many people, I had a bunch of bananas in the ...

Peanut Butter Protein Bites with Dark Chocolate Drizzle

You can't get more quick, simple and YUMMY than these peanut butter protein bites with dark chocolate drizzle! In fact, they lasted about ten minutes in my house... If you're a penut butter fan and o...

Festive Foods Made Healthy

Here are a couple of ideas for healthier alternatives for a main meal and dessert to make over the festive season, as featured in the Irish Independent... Lentil, sweet potato and red pepper baked loaf Th...

Spiced Goji Superfood Bars

Flaxseed. It doesn’t sound like the most glamorous or exciting type of food, does it? But these tiny seeds are powerhouses of nutrition, and including them in your diet regularly can really benefit your body an...

Zesty Carrot Cake Protein Bars

I have always had a bit of thing for carrot cake. I used to think it was that gloriously creamy, sweet icing, which I used to lick off the cake before getting to the sponge. But since I try to avoid such su...

Almond Butter Fudge and Chocolate Cups

These decadent beauties are a marriage of my maple melts and my 4-3-2-1 chocolates in one delicious, chocolatey treat! They're possibly one of my absolute fave sweet treats as they're so full of fla...

Exclusive Xposé Recipe: Nutty Cinnamon Cranberry Cookies

This is an exclusive recipe for Xposé, adapted from the recipe for nutty cinnamon raisin cookies in Eat Yourself Beautiful. I simply replaced the raisins with cranberries, which gives them a tasty pop of swee...

Spiced Pumpkin Muffins

Hope you all had a brilliant - and spooky - Halloween! Anyone have a pumpkin still lying around that escaped getting carved up over the weekend? I had one leftover, so decided to make a batch of spiced p...