Nana - Berry Ice-cream

With the weather warming up, this delicious ice-cream will fool even the pickiest kids. No refined sugar, preservatives or additives!

One ingredient Banana Ice-cream

• 2 frozen bananas

  *Peel banana’s and slice into chunks before freezing - this makes the next step so much easier.

1. Blend frozen bananas in a high speed blender or food processor until smooth and creamy

Banana Berry Ice-cream

• 2 frozen bananas

• 1 cup fresh or frozen strawberries

1. Blend frozen bananas & berries in a high speed blender or food processor until smooth and creamy.

*Other delicious flavours

-Banana & choc chips

-Chocolate - just add 2 Tablespoons of cacao to the blender

-Vanilla - just add a drop of vanilla extract to the blender

The possibilities are left to your imagination!

Banana Loaf

• INGREDIENTS

• 1/3 cup macadamia oil or extra virgin olive oil

• 1/3 cup honey or maple syrup

• 2 eggs

• 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2½ medium or 2 large bananas)

• 1/4 cup milk of choice

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• ½ teaspoon salt

• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus more to swirl on top

• 1¾ cups spelt flour
  
  Totally optional: ½ cup mix-ins like chopped walnuts or pecans, chocolate chips, raisins, chopped dried fruit, fresh banana slices... I added a pun net of fresh raspberries.

  
  INSTRUCTIONS
  Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius and grease a 9×5-inch loaf tin.

  
  In a large bowl, beat the oil and honey together together with a whisk.
  Add the eggs and beat well, then whisk in the mashed bananas and milk.
  Add the baking soda, vanilla, salt and cinnamon, and whisk to blend.
  Lastly, switch to a big spoon and stir in the flour, just until combined. If you're adding any additional mix-ins, gently fold them in now.
  Pour the batter into your greased loaf pan and sprinkle lightly with cinnamon.
  Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (typically, if I haven't added any mix-ins, my bread is done at 55 minutes; if I have added mix-ins, it needs closer to 60 minutes).

  Let the bread cool in the loaf pan for 10 minutes, then transfer it to a wire rack to cool for 20 minutes before slicing.

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Sweet & Salty Popcorn

My kids love this snack, the excitement of watching the kernels pop followed by diving into a big bowl of delicious popcorn.

The microwave popcorn or the movie theatre popcorn is loaded with chemicals & presertavities “fake butter flavour” the ingredients in there are actually carcinogenic (cancer causing). Considering how inexpensive and easy it is to make pop corn I really encourage you to make your own.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup pop corn kernels (organic & non GMO)

• 2 tablespoons butter (not margarine)

• 2 tablespoons honey

• 1 teaspoon sea salt flakes

Instructions

Microwave Option

1. Add corn to a standard lunch-size brown paper bag and fold the top of the bag over twice, pressing the fold tightly so the bag stays closed. Microwave for 2 minutes or until the popping stops.

Stove top Option

1. Add 1/4 cup butter or coconut oil and heat on medium/high heat till melted.

2. Add popcorn and pop the lid on, listen for the pops, shaking the pot while there cooking.

3. Take off the heat when the popping slows down.

Pop corn machine Option

1. Place kernels in machine & tun on.

In a small sauce pan melt honey & butter together.

Pour over popped popcorn & sprinkle with sea salt.

Enjoy xx

Orange & Almond Cake.

This recipe has been thrown around our family, we’ve all been making it for yers, so i’m unsure of the original recipe creator. Theres a few different versions of this cake, this one is fail proof.

The ingredients are minimal, the method gets your boiling oranges for 2 hours - dont let this put you off. Boiling the oranges takes the bitterness from the skin and lets you use the whole orange to make the most decadent cake. Its worth it!

Ingredients

• 2 large oranges

• 6 large eggs

• 2 cups plus 2 Tbs. ground almonds

• 1 cup coconut sugar

• 1 tsp. baking powder

• Butter or oil, for the greasing cake tin

Instructions

1. Wash and boil the oranges (unpeeled) in a pot of water for 2 hours.

2. Cut the oranges open and remove the seeds. Turn the oranges into pulp by blending in a blender or food processor.

3. Pre-heat oven to 180 deg c & grease your cake tin.

4. Beat the eggs in a large bowl. Add the ground almonds, sugar, baking powder, and orange puree and mix thoroughly. *make sure oranges have cooled slightly so you don’t cook the egg.

5. Pour into prepared cake tin and bake for 1 hour. cool in cake tin before turning out onto a plate.

Delicious with a dollop greek yoghurt or fresh cream.

Enjoy xx