Hot Chocolate Cupcakes

I love winter, curling up by the fire, snuggling into blankets and drinking hot chocolate. These cupcakes are the best little celebration of winter in a cup. With a decadent dark chocolate cake and swiss meringue "cream" topped with marshmallows and grated chocolate these beauties remind me of the Sunday morning hot chocolates my mum used to make us.

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Toasty Warm Vegan Gluten Free Peach Crumble

Winter has certainly made itself at home here in NZ. So what's better than curling up by the fire with a nice warm fruit crumble.

Gluten and Dairy Free Lasagne

I had a weirdly specific craving today for lasagne. I wonder if it's because it has been so cold lately? Anyways I still had some leftover mozzarella that needed using up so I thought why not?

Gluten and Dairy Free White Sauce

This sauce is great as a substitute for cheese sauce in mac and cheese or lasagna or as a base for carbonara and other typically cream based sauces plus a bunch of other uses. It's pretty much the most versatile sauce and it's always good to have it in your arsenal.

This main base of this sauce is milk. Make sure the milk substitute that you use is one you like. You know if you don't like almond milk this is probably not the recipe to use up your leftover almond milk before it goes bad.

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Gluten and Dairy Free Mozarella Balls

I. Miss. Cheese.
Ever since I went dairy free I haven't been able to find a decent cheese substitute and to be honest i kinda just accepted that I just wouldn't eat it ever again.
Angel Foods has a vegan mozzarella that is the best. It melts and everything.
These Mozzarella balls would be great as a starter or as finger food served with a variety of dipping sauces..