Smart Tips

Herbed breads taste great, but pair the herbs with sweet ingredients and the combination is heavenly. Rosemary's fragrant aroma works wonderfully in this tea bread, which pairs with chicken, a roast or pasta with red sauce.

If afternoon tea time is around the corner, take a break in between sips to savour these lightly moist and ever-pleasing cakes.

Go nutty with these two recipes that feature mixed nuts and almonds.

Tea bags are bundles of flavour in your cupboard. Here, tea imparts a distinctive flavour to muffins while giving them a unique look in the form of tea specks in the pale yellow crumb.

Everybody wonders how these rolls get their subtly sweet flavour and gorgeous golden colour. Look no further than the humble carrot, a great source of beta-carotene that our body converts into vitamin A.

Unlike commercial gingersnap cookies, these use both ground and fresh ginger. Dried cranberries add a surprising twist to the traditional gingersnap and make a terrific stir-in that adds a sweet, chewy contrast.

This recipe takes garlic bread a step further by incorporating fresh garlic into a muffin with bursts of flavour from grated Parmesan cheese, basil and oregano. Serve with spaghetti and Caesar salad for a full meal.

Some desserts are truly show-stopping, and this is one of them. A dome of decoratively-piped whipped cream encases rounded layers of fudgy walnut brownies, strawberry ice cream and preserves.

Bread's a staple, but you don't need to relegate it to Bland City. These seven ideas are sure to bring it to life.

Many of us have forgotten about time-honoured ways of preparing food. Read on for fresh bread-making tips from yesteryear that are still useful in today's kitchens.

All you need are a few hours and healthy ingredients before you can sink your teeth into your very own loaf of sourdough bread. Just follow this easy recipe.

Baking Anzac cookies and gingerbread cookies are a really easy way to make friends during the holiday season. Here are two simple recipes for you to try:

Making your own bread is very satisfying as well as making your home smell great. To get going these tips will help.

This beautiful cinnamon raisin swirl bread is a treat for all the senses!

Both savoury and sweet, pies are among the most popular items in the frozen food section. When you make your own, you'll understand why homemade is best even before you add up your savings.

This includes a recipe for frosting, but these sugar cookies are buttery, tender and tasty on their own. These are the cookies you bake in holiday shapes with the children, and there is no store-bought equivalent to that.

Heading to the bakery and sniffing the fresh bread is a treat alright, but imagine that in your own kitchen with these savoury homemade recipes.

From fancy glazes to cool new shapes, these bread-making tips can make your baking even more memorable.

Artificial sweeteners are used to reduce both total calorie intake and the amount of sugar consumed. They are many times sweeter than table sugar but add a taste to foods similar to that provided by regular sweeteners such as sugar, honey, molasses o

Both healthy and delicious, these whole-grain muffins are exceptionally tender and moist, thanks to the canola oil and mashed banana.