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This recipe for gingerbread houses creates a kid-friendly project that will get everyone into the Christmas spirit.

This ghostly ship is a labour of love, but it would make the perfect centrepiece for your next Halloween celebration

Eggplant...fries?! This recipe sees this meaty vegetable transformed into thick fries, coated in beer batter then fried to perfection. Serve with garlic yoghurt for a delicious vegetarian snack

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The key element to this chocolate mousse tart recipe is the texture of the mousse. It needs to be light and fluffy; be careful not to press out too many of the air bubbles while folding the mixture to ensure the best results.

Fior de latte is the traditional Italian name for cow's milk mozzarella. And this gorgeous recipe from The Australian Women's Weekly's Made From Scratch cookbook means you can make this creamy cheese yourself.

This monumental chocolate cake is Fiona Hugues' extreme solution to those times when you need an epic cake to either celebrate something audacious or silly, or to shed tears over as you commiserate with a loved one. Fiona has included every fantastic, wicked treat that she has at some time or other danced around with, or sat and wept with, and enveloped them in a Snickers-like cream and then drizzled in salted caramel sauce. Recipe and styling by Fiona Hugues. Photography by Jani Shepherd, Gatherum Collectif.

There’s something amazingly comforting about a steamed pudding, especially when it’s drizzled with warm vanilla crème anglaise and served with poached seasonal fruit

You’ll win brownie points with this sensational dessert!

This is one of my favourite summertime flavour combinations, and the colours make eating it a treat. I garnish this dish with nasturtium leaves and flowers, which are found growing wild just about everywhere from the beach to a Ponsonby roadside! They’re not essential, but look great with the blood orange.