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Apple ‘Tart Tatin’ Crumpets: Recipe #15
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
My very peu-conventionnel take on a French classic 🇫🇷. A spiced honey butter style crumpet meets caramelised apples for this decadent dessert.

Banana Bread Milk Choc Cookies: Recipe #6
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
The banana obsession continues with this hybrid that plays on all the best bits of banana bread, delivered triumphantly in cookie form. The first in my series of Banana centric recipes.

Banana Bread Sticky Toffee Pudding Madeleine’s: Recipe #25
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
A pudding screaming to be served hot with ice cream or custard, this is my very unconventional take on a french classic. Beyond delicious, this is a dessert worthy of any dinner party table.

Biscoff Banana Bread - Recipe #1
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Biscoff and bananas meet to make the fudgiest banana 'bread' you ever did see. Closer to a brownie in texture, this is the type of banana bread you bring out for the most special of occasions.

Blackberry Jam & Vanilla Custard Donuts: Recipe #13
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
At the peak of blackberry season it was only right I incorporated one of my favourite fruits into my favourite style of donut. Filled with a gorgeous vanilla creme patissiere, its a seasonal dream.

Blood Orange Marmalade on Toast Cookies: Recipe #31
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Our newest toast cookie is all grown up, with the addition of Blood Orange Marmalade paired beautifully with white chocolate for that perfect bitter-sweet balance. Paddington would be so proud.

Brown Butter Cinnamon Roll Donuts: Recipe #21
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Two of the finest baked goods collide. All the special qualities of a cinnamon roll, cooked just like a donut.

Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls: Recipe #5
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
A recipe that has taken me 8 years to develop and months to perfect into what are easily the best cinnamon rolls I've ever eaten. I cannot stress enough that the effort is more than worth the reward.

Brown Butter Custard Hot Cross Bun Donuts: Recipe #35
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Everything you love about a Hot Cross Bun but merged into a pillowy-soft-raisin-studded-donut.

Brown Butter Dirty Chai Cookies: Recipe #16
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
A flavour pairing that sees the enchanting flavours of masala chai expertly paired with white chocolate & espresso, for a cookie that is so interesting it would be almost criminal not to share.

Brown Butter Hojicha & Earl Grey Cookies: Recipe #22
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Matcha’s even earthier cousin pairs up with the ever fragrant Earl Grey in this delicious tea on tea cookie. A twist on the British staple that is tea and biscuits.

Brown Butter Plantain Sticky Toffee Pudding: Recipe #18
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
A twist on the staple dessert that is sticky toffee pudding, this version uses the humble plantain to elevate the flavour and introduce a new ingredient to this British Classic.

Caramelised Banana, Banana Pudding: Recipe #10
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Your favourite banana puddings' crunchier, more decadent cousin. An Amercian cult classic for a reason, made even more special here with the extra effort of making your pudding from scratch.

Cereal Milk Cookie Butter French Toast: Recipe #30
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Cereal milk makes its debut its notable debut in my recipe archive in the form of this sensational french toast rendition. A perfect weekend brunch treat that appears way more involved than it is.

Chocolate & Miso Caramel Rolls: Recipe #17
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
This pudding-like take on the viral chocolate & miso caramel roll, combines all my favourite ingredients into one indulgent dessert.

Chocolate Chip Crisp Sandwich Cookies: Recipe #40
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
At first glance, perhaps a divisive choice to put a crisp sandwich in a cookie, but at this point, I'm sure you don't expect anything less from this series.

Crunchy Chocolate Filo ‘Dream Cake’: Recipe #20
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
After 7 attempts to get this right, by sheer luck I stumbled upon the power of filo pastry cooked in butter to achieve an unprecedented level of crunch in baked goods. My take on the viral dream cake.

Custard Cream Banana Pudding: Recipe #39
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Never has an idea this simple wielded such an inspired result. A (if I do say so myself) genius substitute for the always hard to find Nilla Wafers with zero compromise on final taste.

Earl Grey Cheesecake Tea-ramisu: Recipe #32
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
A hybrid cheesecake-misu that combines all the best elements of each dessert into one. An Earl Grey cheesecake filling, topped with white chocolate ganache, layered just like a tiramisu.

Gingerbread Caramel Banana Pudding: Recipe #24
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
My festive twist on a classic banana pudding. Impossibly decadent, this make-ahead dessert is perfect for sharing.

Honey Butter Croissant Cinnamon Rolls: Recipe #37
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
As if the indulgence of a 3 day recipe that involves a croissant-cinnamon-roll-hybrid wasn't enough, I've somehow made it even more ludicrous with the addition of a honey butter topping.

Honey Butter Toast Croissant Cookies: Recipe #29
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
The next in the toast cookie series is a honey butter toast number that see’s the cookie topped with, and rolled in, buttered & toasted croissants.

Honey Butter Toast Crumpets: Recipe #3
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Fresh off the honey butter toast obsession that ran rampant this year, made popular by Arome bakery, this is my take on the viral trend. Made super simple with crumpets, it's a delight!

I’ve launched my own cookie brand!
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
You can now get your hands on my Jam & Buttered Toast Cookies, delivered nationwide. My very own cookies, soon to be yours.

Jam & Buttered Toast Cookie: Recipe #27
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
The inevitable evolution of the now infamous buttered toast cookie takes on it’s next form by lending inspiration from the after-school classic that is Jam on Toast.

Jam & Clotted Cream Scone Cookies: Recipe #38
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
This next toast cookie recipe sees the humble British scone toasted, buttered and spread with jam to form the most unexpected crumble on top of this fruit forward cookie.

Lemon Poppyseed Crème Brûlée Donuts: Recipe #33
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Spring has officially sprung and it's embodied here perfectly in this citrus take on one of my favourite styles of donut.

Masala Chai Banoffee Pie: Recipe #28
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
An intriguing pairing of masala chai and banoffee pie make their debut in this recipe, a top a biscuit base made with chocolate hobnobs.

Miso Birthday White Chocolate Cookies: Recipe #2
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
A salty-sweet dream of a cookie. Such a great way to elevate an otherwise almost too indulgent combination, the miso makes her feel just that little bit more grown up.

Miso Buttered Toast Cookies: Recipe #26
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
The cookie that proves my theory that there are truly no limits to what you can make into dessert, as long as you have the right foundations. Miso butter & sourdough toast in a cookie, a revelation!

NYC Style Chocolate Chip Cookies: Recipe #8
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
The height and density of these cookies is only made more impressive by the pools of melted milk and dark chocolate throughout. I don't want to say these are my best ever, but they kinda are.

Pistachio Pandan & Coconut Donuts: Recipe #7
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
A perfect weekend baking project, these are my infamous donuts, made only more exciting by the unlikely but inspiring pairing of Pistachio & Pandan together. Exceptional if I do say so myself.

Pistachio Pretzel & White Chocolate Cookies: Recipe #11
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Back with another pistachio recipe, this time in the form of a deliciously thick cookie that is both studded and filled with a pistachio creme. Topped with some salty pretzels for balance.

Rhubarb & Smoked Sea Salt Custard Donuts: Recipe #36
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Even if this recipe is coming towards the end of it, I couldn't let Rhubarb season pass me by without using it in one of the best recipes I have developed. My joyous take on Rhubarb & Custard.

Rolo Brownie Caramel Pudding Cookies: Recipe #14
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Named pudding cookies as these are more like a pudding than a classic cookie, I’ve taken time to turn one my childhood faves into this treat.

Sea Salt Vanilla Custard Crème Brûlée Donuts: Recipe #9
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
With a crisp torched sugar exterior and a decadently creamy sea salt vanilla custard filling , this is easily my best donut creation yet.

Sticky Toffee Pudding Cinnamon Rolls: Recipe #12
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
A union of two of my favourite desserts in one, combining an enriched sticky toffee dough and filling, with the classic profiles of a cinnamon roll. It just makes SO much sense.

Strawberry Sando-Misu: Recipe #4
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
My take on the viral M&S sando, but in a tiramisu. Fruity, creamy & honestly the least traditional tiramisu you will ever try. Even if it upsets the purists, it's worth it for how good this is!

Stroopwafel Caramel Cookies: Recipe #19
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
The most iconic Dutch staple made into a dreamy cookie that plays with so many interesting textures. A roll-your-sleeves-up type of recipe with quite a few essential steps. But so worth it. I promise.

The Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookie: Recipe #23
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
Labelled ‘THE’ because it’s the only one you need. After months of development, endless tweaks, this is the best chocolate chip cookie I have ever had the pleasure of eating. Now you can too.

Toasted Hot Cross Bun Cookies: Recipe #34
Lungimhlanga · Lungimhlanga
The next addition of toast cookies has an Easter update in the form of the greatest vessel for butter known to man: Hot Cross Buns.