Recipes
Tiramisu Cookies
These tiramisu cookies from Pamela Higgins bring the classic coffee and cocoa combination into a soft, gluten-free cookie base, topped with a thick nut butter cream cheese frosting and a generous dust of cocoa powder. Sweetened with Natvia Gut Activation Sweetener (AU) / Natvia Synbiotic Sweetener (UK) instead of sugar, they come together quickly and taste just as indulgent as the dessert they're named after.
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Iced Relaxing Chocolate Matcha
Iced matcha lattes are the ultimate afternoon pick-me-up, but making them at home gives you the freedom to add a functional, tension-melting twist. The secret to this deeply satisfying drink is making your matcha with some of Natvia's Hot Choc Relax powder to create a rich, double-duty drink. It is the perfect balancing act: the matcha delivers a clean, focused caffeine boost to keep you sharp, while the Hot Choc Relax works to ease tension and smooth out any jittery edges. There is no added sugar anywhere in it, and it comes together right in your own kitchen in minutes. Whisk this up the next time you hit an afternoon slump, and you will have a beautifully balanced, cafe-worthy drink that gives you energy without sacrificing your calm.
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Cardamom Blueberry & Apricot Rustic Galette
This cardamom blueberry and apricot rustic galette wraps a spiced pastry around a filling of juicy blueberries, sliced apricots and orange zest, folded rustic-style and baked until golden. Sweetened with Natvia Natural Sweetener instead of sugar, it's finished with a scattering of flaked almonds and is best served warm.
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Berry Matcha Overnight Oats Pots
These berry matcha overnight oats pots from Pamela Higgins layer matcha oats, a smooth strawberry yogurt and a warm berry compote into individual ramekins for a make-ahead breakfast that still feels like a treat. Sweetened with Natvia Gut Activation Sweetener instead of sugar, they're topped with granola and pumpkin seeds for crunch and chill in the fridge until you're ready to eat.
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Pistachio Pastry Swirls
Pistachio and puff pastry are a natural match, and this recipe from Pamela Higgins turns that pairing into a batch of golden swirls perfect for morning tea or a quick dessert. A ready-rolled sheet of puff pastry is spread with a smooth pistachio and soft cheese filling, sweetened with Natvia Gut Activation Sweetener instead of sugar, then twisted into spirals and baked until golden. They come together with barely any hands-on time and are best enjoyed still warm from the oven.
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Black Sesame Latte
Black sesame lattes have quietly taken over cafe menus, and once you taste that deep, nutty, almost halva-like flavour, you understand why. The good news is the whole thing starts with one homemade staple: a sweetened black sesame paste made from just toasted sesame seeds and Natvia Gut Activation Sweetener (or Natvia Synbiotic Sweetener if you are in the UK), blitzed until glossy. Keep a jar in the fridge and a cafe-worthy latte is only ever two teaspoons away. The paste dissolves into hot water to form a rich sesame base, and steamed milk does the rest. It works just as well iced, which makes it one of those recipes that carries you through every season. There is no added sugar anywhere in it, and the flavour is genuinely something different from the usual chocolate and vanilla suspects. Make the paste on a Sunday and your weekday coffee order might start looking a little less tempting.
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Chocolate Smoothie Bowl
A chocolate smoothie bowl that tastes like dessert but comes together before your coffee has finished brewing is a rare thing. This one blends frozen bananas with Greek yoghurt and Natvia Relax Hot Chocolate for a thick, creamy base with a proper chocolatey hit. The trick to a good smoothie bowl is keeping the blend thick enough to hold its toppings, and frozen bananas do the heavy lifting here, giving you that soft-serve texture with hardly any liquid. From there it becomes a blank canvas. Pile on blueberries, raspberries, linseed meal and chia seeds, or raid the fruit bowl for whatever looks good. It works as a quick breakfast, an afternoon pick-me-up or a lighter answer to late-night chocolate cravings.
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Matcha Granola with White Chocolate and Cranberries
Make matcha granola once and you will wonder why shop granola gets away with charging what it does. Toasty oats, pumpkin seeds and flaked almonds get a gentle green tea lift from matcha powder, with Natvia Gut Activation Sweetener bringing the sweetness instead of the usual syrup or sugar. Dried cranberries and no-added-sugar white chocolate turn it from virtuous to genuinely craveable, and the matcha and white chocolate pairing works exactly as well here as it does in your favourite latte. One bowl, one tray and about 15 minutes in the oven is all it takes, and the batch keeps in a jar for grab-and-go breakfasts all week. Pile it over yoghurt with a handful of fresh berries and you have a breakfast that looks like a cafe order but costs a fraction of what one would set you back.
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One Pot Bibimbap
Bibimbap has a reputation for being a weekend-project dinner, with every vegetable cooked separately and a sink full of pans to show for it. This rice cooker version quietly ignores all of that. The vegetables steam right on top of the rice while it cooks, so the machine does almost everything while you get on with your evening. The magic is in the bibimbap sauce, a punchy mix of gochujang, sesame oil and rice vinegar balanced with Natvia Natural Sweetener instead of the usual sugar or honey. Drizzle it over the finished bowl, add a fried egg with a runny yolk, and mix the whole thing until every grain of rice is coated. It is a proper one-appliance dinner for two that tastes like far more effort than it took. Keep a batch of the sauce in the fridge and you will find excuses to use it.
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Fruitti Snacks Chocolate Yoghurt Bark
Fruitti Snacks chocolate yoghurt bark is one of those recipes that feels like a treat but takes about five minutes of actual work. Creamy Greek yoghurt gets swirled with Natvia Hazelnut Spread, spread onto a tray, then topped with fresh raspberries, blueberries and Natvia Fruitti Snacks before a quick trip to the freezer. The Fruitti Snacks are the fun part here, adding little chewy bursts of raspberry and blueberry that hold their texture even frozen, so every shard has something going on. Snap the finished bark into rough pieces and keep them in the freezer for whenever a chocolate craving hits, whether that is the 3pm slump or after dinner. It is an easy one to make with kids too, since the topping stage is basically decorating. Four ingredients, one bowl and a baking tray is all it takes, and the freezer does the rest of the work.
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Almond & Apricot Brioche Buns
There is a particular joy in pulling a tray of Swedish-style buns out of your own oven, still warm, with the smell of almond and butter filling the kitchen. These brioche buns hide a creamy almond centre and pockets of sweet, juicy apricot inside a soft, buttery dough, all made with Natvia Gut Activation Sweetener (or Natvia Synbiotic Sweetener if you are in the UK) instead of sugar. Brioche has a reputation for being fussy, but this dough is forgiving, and the ten minutes of kneading is the hardest part. The rest is mostly waiting while the yeast does its work. Brush them with egg wash, scatter over flaked almonds and bake until golden, then pour a coffee and eat one while it is still warm. That first bun, fresh from the oven, is the reason to make them.
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Pistachio & Hazelnut Spread Levain Cookies
These are the thick, bakery-style cookies with a secret: break one open while it is still warm and a molten centre of pistachio cream and Natvia Hazelnut Spread comes flowing out. The trick is freezing the filling solid first, so it stays put while the dough bakes around it, then turns liquid again from the oven's heat. The dough itself is built for structure, with a mix of plain and cake flour, chopped walnuts and macadamias for crunch, and a blend of Natvia Brown Sweetener and Natvia Natural Sweetener standing in for sugar. The result is golden outside, soft inside and completely over the top in the best way. They take a little patience with the freezing and chilling, but none of the steps are difficult, and the payoff is a cookie that looks like it came from a viral bakery counter.
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