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3 Easy, Festive Mug Cake Recipes You Need To Try This Christmas
We’re known for easing your daily grind with very handy accessories. We’re also known for Clare’s go-to mug cake recipe. With Christmas just around the corner and our love for desserts that require very little to zero effort ‘cos #LazyGirl, we’ve compiled 3 slightly-Christmassy mug cake recipes from Taste you really do need to try. The best part? They’ll take mere minutes.
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3 Lazy-Girl Sweet Treat Recipes With Only 3 Ingredients
We’re all about maximising our time with minimal effort—enthusiasts in #LazyGirlHacks, if you will. We also have a serious thing for super-easy, uber-delicious desserts and these 3 x 3-ingredient recipes we’ve recently found have us questioning why we ever put more effort in…
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3 Quick & Easy Air Fryer Recipes
If you’ve been hanging around for a while, you’d know we’re all ‘bout those #LazyGirlHacks. So we figured we’d curate a list of some quick & easy air fryer recipes that’ll make life a little less stressful, and way more delicious.
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5 Microwave Recipes For The Lazy Girl
If you’ve found yourself asking, What other meals can I make in the microwave? We’ve gotchu covered. We’ve tried and tested our top 5 microwave recipes from Taste and compiled them in this one juicy blog for you.
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The 2-4-6-8 Cake - your go-to, lazy-girl recipe with 100s of variations
If there's one thing engrained in my brain from my childhood, it's certainly not pythagoras' theorem. It's my mother's 2-4-6-8 cake recipe. It's one of those recipes you don't need to constantly reference (unless you can't remember 4 numbers...), you can create 100s of variations from and your friends won't stop raving about because it just tastes so wholesale. Best of all, you'll probably always have the ingredients.
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The Lemon Slice Recipe I thought Was My Mum's (But Isn't)
No intro needed, really. This is just a really really good lemon slice recipe. In fact, I only just learnt that it's from my mother's (very 80s looking) Women's Weekly recipe book - and my mother has great taste, especially of the baked-goods kind. So go forth, bake (actually no baking required for this one) - and enjoy the lemony goodness of this epic slice. It's particularly good when you have an oversupply of lemons in your garden and really really need to use them up. I'm not sick of it. Yet. PS. There's a hot tip below for you lactose-intolerants. The Lemon Slice Recipe I thought Was My Mums (But Isn't) Makes a slice tin worth, actual slices depends on the size you cut them. Takes maybe 20 mins, with an hour's wait for it to set. Ingredients BASE 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk 125g (4oz) butter 250g packet of milk arrowroot biscuits 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind 1 cup coconut LEMON ICING 1 + 3/4 cups icing sugar 3 tablespoons lemon juice 15g (1/2oz) butter 2 tablespoons coconut for sprinkling [article-related-products] Method - Pop the condensed milk and butter in a small saucepan and stir over gentle heat until butter has melted and they've combined - Crush biscuits very finely, then add lemon rind and coconut - then mix well - Add the warm condensed milk/butter mixture to the biscuit crumbs and mix the ingredients together - Press the mixture into a greased 28 x 18cm slice or lamington tin - Set base in fridge for 1 hour One hour later - Combine sifted (I don't bother) icing, lemon juice and soft butter in a bowl - mix until smooth - Ice the biscuit base with lemon icing and sprinkle it with coconut - When icing is set, cut into squares. Rectangles. Eat the whole thing. You. Are. Welcome. Side note I'm lactose intolerant, so I've substituted condensed milk for plant-based (we've spotted a Nestle one in Woolies) or coconut-based alternatives (I've made my own using this recipe - SUPER easy, less ouchy tummy). Yours in lemon trees gone wild, Clare
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The BEST mug cake recipe, just got better (aka PINK!).
With the recent release of ALLLLL the neon pink products, I decided to create the infamous Bon Maxie mug cake recipe in PINK! The recipe’s eggless, vegan friendly, and based on our original mug cake recipe—if you know, you know. Please do NOT blame me if recreating this gooey pink goodness becomes a nightly thing.
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Now THIS is Scone Loaf.
Joe (my husband and Bon Maxie CFO), has always been a scone lover. If he ever has a hankering for scones, he knows the exact ingredient measurements to make a single, perfect scone. So when a baked-goods brand recently released a 'scone loaf', he was excited. I was excited for him. But it didn't taste how we thought it would.
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The $250 Cookie Recipe
There is an urban myth. About an American department store that had a café with great cookies. Allegedly. A woman managed to get her hands on the recipe and loaded it to the World Wide Web. This is the recipe. Allegedly. In any case, it's been my family's go-to choc chip cookie recipe for well over 20 years (wowser, I'm old). Granted, we've made modifications but this ain't your standard (greasy) Subway cookie, though it's not dry. It's certainly not home-made tasting. Except it is. It's so wholesome, it's almost like eating porridge. Almost.
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The Only Apple Crumble Recipe That Makes Me Not Hate Apple Crumble
It's no secret in our household that I deem fruit-heavy 'desserts' to be...breakfast. Oats...fruit...the lack of chocolate. So, when I met my husband, Joe, and he revealed he 'probably prefers apple crumble over chocolate cake', (!??!?!?!) I very much reconsidered our relationship. It was either him going (and taking his misplaced choice for no. 1 dessert with him), or I was to learn to love it and accept Joe's love of breakfast as a post-dinner treat. I truly hope you enjoy this apple crumble recipe more than I do. Because if I can love it and not love apple crumble, and you are a crumble lover, you're in for a real treat.
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My Go-To Gingerbread Recipe (but don't come here for decoration inspo!)
My Mug Cake recipe is still one of the most-visited pages on my site. Not surprised. So, since we all share a mutual love of excellent food (and due to impending Christmas) I'm sharing my go-to gingerbread recipe! It's sweet but not too sweet, it's spicy but not overpowering. And while I can't guarantee it'll look pretty, I can assure you it tastes DI-VINE.
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Mug Cakes Part 2: Pretty Mugs
A good mug cake deserves a pretty mug, no? I do enjoy consuming my mug cake in style and these pieces sure do hit the mark! Functional. Perfect mug-cake size, and a treat for your eyes.
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