20 Top Recipes of 2022

After another year and another 151 recipes, I know what my favourites are but let’s take a look at your favourite recipes from 2022. Did your favourite make the list? What recipe did you love this year – tell me in the comments section below.

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1. No Bake Passionfruit Cheesecake

No-bake passionfruit cheesecake, with its soft, creamy filling, buttery cookie base and tart passionfruit jelly topping is the stuff of dreams. It’s so easy to make and you only need 7 ingredients.

2. Pasta Napolitana

Need a quick weeknight dinner? This pasta napolitana can be on the table in less than 30 minutes. With minimal ingredients, al dente pasta, smothered in a classic Italian pasta sauce is great for meatless Mondays too.

3. Vanilla Tray Bake

Soft and fluffy vanilla tray bake is an easy buttery sponge, topped with simple icing and sprinkles. Perfect for birthdays or just afternoon tea, this vanilla sheet cake will have you craving more.

4. Turkey San Choy Bow (Chinese Lettuce Wraps)

Turkey san choy bow (or Chinese lettuce wraps) are a quick and healthy take on a classic. Flavoursome turkey mince filling with vegetables all wrapped in crisp lettuce cups is the perfect weeknight meal, that everyone – even the kids – will love!

5. Easy Lemon Curd

You’re just 4 ingredients and 10 minutes away from this creamy, sweet and tangy homemade lemon curd. So much better than shop-bought and even quicker too, lemon curd is perfect for topping everything from scones to pancakes.

6. Chicken Sausage Rolls

Chicken sausage rolls are a flavoursome chicken filling wrapped in flaky, golden puff pastry. Perfect for parties, kids’ snacks or gameday snacks, these easy sausage rolls are an absolute crowd-pleaser.

7. Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies

These chocolate marshmallow cookies are a fudgy, chewy, brownie-like cookie stuffed with marshmallow and they’re so easy to make. No fancy equipment and they’re ready in half an hour.

8. Honey Lemon Pepper Wings

Crunchy, sweet and tangy, these baked honey lemon pepper wings are loaded with flavour with just 9 simple ingredients and real, natural flavour. Perfectly sweet and savoury, they make a great appetiser, game day snack or finger food.

9. Salted Caramel Fudge

This salted caramel fudge is a smooth and creamy easy caramel fudge with a sea salt topping. It takes less than 10 minutes on the stove top and fudge is also perfect for food gifts.

10. Crumbed Sausages

Crumbed sausages are a classic at Aussie lunch bars and they’re easy to make at home. Tasty, juicy beef sausage covered in a satisfying crunchy crumb, these are a tasty, economical dinner treat.

11. Malteser Traybake

Malteser traybake is actually not baked at all. Also known as Malteser tiffin, this quick and easy, no-bake slice is loaded with chocolate and Maltesers and makes the perfect afternoon tea for adults or after-school snack for the kids.

12. Lime Coconut Chicken

This lime coconut chicken is a one-pan, less than 30-minute dinner wonder! Lime, chicken and coconut milk combine for a flavourful and fresh Thai-style recipe that’s perfect for busy weeknights.

13. Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding

This chocolate self-saucing pudding is such a quick and easy to make classic dessert. Moist chocolate sponge with a silky chocolate sauce, this chocolate pudding is all baked in one dish.

14. Savoury Mince

This old-fashioned savoury mince is an easy, comforting weeknight meal. So easy to make and perfect for batch cooking too, this simple beef mince recipe will become a family favourite.

15. S’mores Gooey Chocolate Mug Cake

A rich, satisfying chocolate cake in just 5 minutes? You can do it, with this s’mores gooey chocolate mug cake recipe. This eggless mug cake, topped with gooey toasted marshmallow is so easy, it can be made right in the mug. 

16. Beef Sausage Rolls

These homemade beef sausage rolls can be on your table hot and fresh in no time and they’ll disappear just as quickly. Flaky, buttery puff pastry wrapped around an easy flavourful sausage filling make the perfect appetiser or party food.

17. Salted Caramel Tartlets

These salted caramel tartlets will make you weak in the knees. Bite-sized cookie cups filled with buttery salted caramel and they’re so easy to make! Grab your mini muffin tin and let’s get baking.

18. Crispy Oven Roasted Pork Belly

Perfectly oven-roasted pork belly with tender, succulent meat and a layer of crispy crackling. With just 3 ingredients it’s so easy to make.

19. Easy Chocolate Pots

These easy chocolate pots are a simple custard style, chocolate pudding. Soft, creamy and luscious, they take 5 minutes and only 6 ingredients. No bake, egg free and perfect to make ahead.

20. Cheesy Garlic Crack Bread

This incredible cheesy garlic crack bread is so fun and easy to make. Stuffed with cheese, garlic and onions, and baked until gooey and hot, this is one delicious party snack!

Now for the top 5 recipes of all time

These 5 recipes, posted prior to 2022, are the top 5 recipes day in, day out – for good reason.

• Easy Rocky Road
• Crispy Asian Chilli Beef Mince
• Quick Chocolate Bread (Chocolate Loaf Cake)
• How to make Danish Pastry
• Easy Cheesy Potato Bake

In the comments below, tell me your favourite recipe from Sugar Salt Magic this year!