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Pear and date tarte tatin.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s pear and date tarte tatin

Pears and dates are a classic flavour combination that works exceptionally well in another classic, the tarte tatin.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw

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Chocolate, hojicha and pecan cookies.
EASY

If you like matcha, these extra-toasty choc chip cookies will be your cup of tea

A different powdered Japanese green tea gives these biscuits a mellow, nutty backbone.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
All the flavours of your favourite Indian snack food in pie form.
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Love samosas? This golden tray pie gives you all the crunch – minus the fiddly folding

A vibrant, spiced potato filling meets crisp pastry in this simple meat-free comfort bake. No deep-frying required.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Julia Busuttil Nishimura's pumpkin and feta filo pie.

Filo-sophy 101: Five golden, flaky pies to make this weekend

From roasted pumpkin and feta to an apple pie that crunches like autumn leaves, these paper-thin sheets shatter with every mouthful.

Caramel and macadamia slice.

Aunty Beryl’s nutty, crunchy spin on caramel slice is ‘pure indulgence’

From the debut cookbook of living legend Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo, this classic dessert gets extra texture and creamy flavour from native macadamia nuts.

  • Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo
Julia Busuttil Nishimura's pumpkin and feta filo pie.

Roasted pumpkin and feta filo pie

Inspired by the Greek pie kolokithopita, this vegetarian bake is an incredibly delicious way to ease into winter.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Blackberry and coconut cheesecake muffins.

Karen Martini shares the secrets to her best-ever banana bread and next-level muffins

The savoury-leaning chef yields to sugary cravings with these moreish bakes – essential afternoon treats plucked from her new cookbook.

  • Karen Martini
Country pork stew.
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The surprising ingredient that makes Adam Liaw’s apple crumble stand out

It might be a grown-up apple crumble but it will bring out the big kid in all of us.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Use your favourite type of chocolate for the ganache, which cloaks the caramel.

28 of Emelia Jackson’s beautiful and best weekend bakes

From rainy Sunday arvo bakes to show-stopping cakes, Emelia’s creations just don’t look and taste glorious, they’ll help make you a better baker, too.

Carrot cake, only more deeply spiced and brooding.
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One-bowl cardamom and molasses carrot cake

This simple cake is a dump-and-stir dream – richly spiced with cardamom and molasses, and topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink