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Tips, tricks & tools

Cooking from scratch is easier when you have a few helpful tips and simple kitchen basics up your sleeve. From clever cooking shortcuts to homemade pantry staples, these recipes and guides are designed to make time in the kitchen easier and more enjoyable.

Whether you're learning a new kitchen skill, looking for simple ingredient substitutes or wanting to make more foods from scratch, these practical tips and recipes will help you cook with confidence.

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From scratch essentials
  • Corn on a plate on the cob.
    How To Cook Corn On The Cob
  • How to make self raising flour
    How To Make Self-Raising Flour
  • How to make cinnamon sugar
    How To Make Cinnamon Sugar
  • How to make icing sugar
    How To Make Icing Sugar
  • Spoon full of yoghurt with pot of homemade yoghurt in the background.
    How To Make Yoghurt At Home From Milk
  • Greased round springform cake tin - how to grease and line a round cake tin
    How to grease and line a round cake tin
  • How to make brown sugar
    How To Make Brown Sugar
  • How to juice a lemon without cutting it - no more wasted lemons
    How to juice lemon without cutting it
  • What to do with tinned tomato
  • Beautiful Noosa
    Living within our means
  • Four rules for meal planning success
    Four rules for meal planning success
  • Once a month shopping
  • how to remove labels from glass jars without ruining your nails
    How to remove labels from glass jars
  • Tools use to sterilise jars for making jam
    How To Sterilize Jars For Jam (the easy way)
  • Thai yellow curry paste - blob of yellow curry paste in small white ramekin on white bench with fresh chilis around it.
    Thai yellow curry paste
  • How to cook rice on the stove
    How to cook rice on the stove
  • How to make buttercream icing
    How to make buttercream icing
  • Homemade vanilla butter in a blue bowl sitting on a wooden spoon (1)
    How to make vanilla butter at home (simple & quick recipe)
  • Mini Madeira loaf cakes with lemon drizzle
    Easy Madeira Loaf Cakes With Lemon Icing
  • Sourdough breadcrumbs
    How to make sourdough breadcrumbs
  • How to make vanilla extract
    Homemade Vanilla Extract
  • Homemade tomato pasta sauce
    Homemade tomato pasta sauce
  • Lemon tea - for good health
  • Ironing board chicken
    Ironing board chicken
  • Lamb ragu in the Breville Flavour Maker slow cooker
  • Two-at-a-time Slow Cooking and Beef Creation
  • Simple substitute to common ingredients
    Simple Substitutes
  • Capsule kitchen via www.clairekcreations.com
    How to create a capsule pantry
  • 7 tips to save money on fresh produce 2 (1)
    7 Tips to save money on fresh produce
  • Glass jars in the kitchen
  • Hole-in-one Golf Cake
  • How to host a baby shower (or any other girly party)
  • 9 tips to get kids to eat dinner
    9 tips to get kids to eat dinner
  • How to grease a baking tin quickly with no mess
    How to grease a baking tin quickly with no mess
  • How to swap from packet mixes to homemade baking
  • Mess free icing with a piping bag
  • Our delicious wedding food - thank you Spoon Fed Catering!
  • how to get rid of tea and coffee stains on cups via www.clairekcreations.com
    How to get rid of tea and coffee stains on cups
  • Monkey jungle cake toppers via www.clairekcreations.com
    Monkey jungle cake toppers
  • 100 wedding cupcakes
    Recipe for 100 vanilla cupcakes (+ 10 tips)

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Claire headshot - Claire from Claire K Creations. 38 year old woman with short blonde hair holding a tea cup standing in a kitchen

Hi I'm Claire!

I make cooking & baking for your family simple & delicious.

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    Easy homemade water crackers: 4 ingredients
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    Best Chocolate Icing Made With Real Chocolate
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    Easy Homemade Muesli Bars (Using Packet Muesli)

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