Bliss balls are the easiest thing to make. Basically chuck everything in the food processor and blitz. To fancy them up you can coat them in melted chocolate. You can use anything you have available in your pantry and swap out different nuts, seeds and dried fruit and sweetener to create different versions. Here's another 3 versions here.

Peanut butter, makes about 30

1 c oats

1/2 c peanut butter

1/2 c dates

1/4 c toasted peanuts

Chocolate prune, makes about 30

1 c cashews

1 1/2 c prunes

1/4 c ground ...

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These a nice little chewy bites, great for lunchboxes.

90g oat flour
80g ground almonds
2 tbsp cacao powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
50g coconut sugar (or another unrefined sugar)
4 tbsp stevia
2 eggs
120g peanut butter (or any nut butter)
100g coconut oil, melted
100g cacao nibs or chocolate buttons

Preheat oven to 180C. Line 2 trays with baking paper.

In a bowl mix the flour, almonds, cacao, baking soda, sugar and stevia. In another bowl mix the eggs, peanut butter and coconut oil.

Mix the wet ing...

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This is my entry into the NZ Airborne National Honey Week competition. I wanted to create a recipe that only uses a few ingredients so the honey could shine through. A no-flour, one-bowl wonder - VERY easy to make and scrummy!

Makes 16-20 cookies

1/3 c New Zealand honey (I used clover)
1 c peanut butter (Pic's is my preferred brand but any organic, salt-free, all natural one is good)
2 tbs cocoa powder
3/4 c chocolate drops

Preheat the oven to 180C. Soften or slightly melt the honey in a saucepan o...
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An easy sugar-free, flourless cake from Petite Kitchen. Went down well for a morning tea for 9, including teens and a toddler. I love recipes where you just mix everything in one bowl - less cleaning up!

1 c peanut butter (or any nut butter)
2 mashed banans
3 tbs honey, plus 3 tbs for glaze
3 eggs
1/2 c raisins (or any dried fruit)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp apple cider vinegar

Preheat oven to 160C and grease and line a cake tin.
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl using a potato masher to break up the ban...
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Well, I only call them 'perfect' cos that's what the recipe was called. But they did come out really, really well. Thanks to Jo from Dublin who gave me her jar of peanut butter before she left Auckland. I've used less sugar than the recipe I found.

1 1/2 cups flour (I used rice and spelt)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 c creamy or chunky peanut butter
1/2 cup softened butter
3/4 cup brown sugar or raw sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

In a medium bowl sift to combine flour, baking powd...
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