To make your own vegan butter, pouring cream and custard, refer to the recipes on this recipe chip.

Roasted peaches will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.

Select good quality brands of coconut cream with ingredients that only include coconut and water.

Bowl to melt chocolate should be large enough to securely set on mixing bowl without the mixing bowl lid.

For best results we recommend using Valrhona or other couverture chocolate. The recipes will work with other chocolates but the results may be different. Valrhona is a high-quality couverture chocolate. Couverture is the name given to a certain class of high-quality chocolate. Couverture chocolate, unlike regular chocolate, is ground to a finer texture during the production process and contains a greater percentage of cocoa butter relative to the other ingredients. These two differences produce a superior flavour and texture that makes couverture the preferred chocolate for tempering and enrobing truffles, bonbons, and other fine candies.

Use any remaining pastry to make sweet shortcrust biscuits. Roll and cut into desired shapes with a cookie cutter then bake for 10-12 minutes (180°C) or until golden.

Before baking puffed pastry, brush the surface with heavy cream and sprinkle with sugar or raw sugar.

Enjoy the honeycomb bark on its own or use it to decorate or add to other desserts.

Be sure to use clean utensils and sterilised jars for best results.

You can make this recipe up to 2 days in advance, but store the gingernut crumb and the cheesecake mixture separately until ready to assemble.

Dessert made from boiled and mashed purple yam. A sweet pudding like jam.

To make your own almond meal mill use Chop tool on your TM6 or refer to your Basic cookbook for instructions.

For the best results, pears should be ripe but firm.

The oil can be omitted for a more intensely flavoured spread, but the texture will not be as velvety smooth.

You can replace the cardamom pods with ½ teaspoon ground cardamom.

Jude Blereau is a whole and natural foods chef, award-winning author, cooking teacher and pioneer of the organic and wholefoods industry in Australia for more than 25 years. Jude has been associated with Thermomix® since the beginning, when recipe tesing was done in Grace Mazur's home kitchen. "This recipe is the perfect treat when dairy can be a little too overwhelming and rich. Wholesome sweetness is such a special part of our lives and desserts are such a wonderful way to celebrate. Plus I think we need to stop and actually celebrate a little bit more - live our lives and give thanks for friends, family and all we have."

For a creamier result, place cashews into a bowl, cover with water and refrigerate to soak for 24 hours. Rinse and drain before using. Additionally, soaking cashews before using makes them easier to digest.

Biscuit dough can be made up to 1 week in advance and stored in the refrigerator.

Before baking puffed pastry, brush the surface with heavy cream and sprinkle with sugar or raw sugar.