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Children's party

Choc brown butter cookies.

How to make the perfect chewy choc cookies (with a brown butter twist)

This recipe from Mike Russell of Baker Bleu takes the best parts of a chocolate chip cookie and adds a few grown-up spins on it too.

  • Two Good Co
Christmas joys.
EASY

Honey joy to the world: These festive treats are child’s play during the school holidays

There’s no better way to get kids involved in Christmas lunch than getting them to make these. Think of them as a cross between honey joys and rocky road.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Fairy bread.

The magic of fairy bread: Why everyone loves Australia’s rainbow party snack

This beloved childhood treat is the “perfect trifecta of carbs, sugar and fat”. And as it’s officially Fairy Bread Day today, perfectly acceptable to eat for lunch.

  • Jane de Graaff
You can mix and match toppings on the Salada crack.

This chocolate crack is the easiest (and most addictive) treat you can make this Christmas

Using a Salada cracker for its base, this recipe is half-way done before you’ve even started.

  • Vanessa Horton
Serve the dip with crudite and these crunchy, gluten-free seeded crackers.
EASY

Roasted carrot and sumac dip with sesame crackers

A dietary-requirements-friendly dip that’s perfect for summer entertaining.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Emelia Jackson’s doughnuts contain a secret ingredient.

The secret to these fluffy cinnamon doughnuts? It’s all in the mashed spuds

The difference between gloriously puffy doughnuts and dense, oily rings comes down to an ingredient found in the vegie aisle.

  • < 30 mins
  • Emelia Jackson
Sausage rolls at the Builders Arms Hotel, Fitzroy.
EASY

The only sausage roll recipe you need from the Fitzroy pub that’s famous for them

Raise your grand final snack game with the surprisingly simple sausage rolls that Andrew McConnell’s popular pub will be serving on Saturday.

  • < 30 mins
  • Brian Macalister
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lime and coconut sheet cake.
EASY

Lime and triple coconut sheet cake

This tropical traybake will brighten the dreariest winter’s day.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Everyday chocolate cake with whipped cocoa cream.
EASY

Creator of the ‘world’s best chocolate cake’ shares her new, improved kid-friendly recipe

Helen Goh swaps the original’s dark chocolate ganache for whipped cocoa cream in this simple “everyday” recipe.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Chicken katsu tenders.
EASY

Adam Liaw's chicken katsu tenderloins

In Japan, chicken katsu is made using skin-on chicken thighs, but tenderloins are perfect for kids.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw