Greens for Kiwi kids

This month I have a few 'green' recipes for children, toddlers and babies featured on Little Treasures Magazine. If you have little ones and read the magazine let me know what you think!

Last image: not in the magazine, but in the garden, Marameo
likes to curl up inside a terracotta pot. He looks so funny!

Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Chocolate Truffle Cupcake, and a cupcake workshop at Taste Matakana

Photo by Shaun Cato-Symonds, Recipe by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Today Arantxa and I went up to Taste Matakana in Warkworth for a cupcake workshop. It was a great chance for Arantxa to teach girls (and boys) to make sugar flowers and decorate cupcakes. Kids went home with a plate full of their creations, and grown up got really into it too. And I guess that it is time to  show a cupcake recipes: the photo above is our Chocolate Truffle Cupcake, please click here to find the article on Yahoo Lifestyle, with the link for this recipe (chocolate ganache included). Also Yahoo offers NZ residents a chance here to enter to win a copy of the book (and if you don't live in NZ you can always enter here).

Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©

I would like to thanks blogger Frances Chan from The Bake Club who came to the book launch, you can see her photos and read about the event on her blog. Next workshop, about sugar roses and flowers, is at Millys in Parnell (Auckland) next Saturday. See you there!

Article on Foraging

Check out the latest Dish Magazine (issue 23, April - May 2009) 

for my article on foraging!