The Season
of Winter
Hands down my favourite season and I'm sharing all my reasons why.
Winter... It slows us down, draws us inward, asks us to rest and recover. I only started loving it when I stopped trying to make it summer. Lean into it, and it becomes something you actually look forward to. So here’s my cheat sheet…
Pumpkin Muffins with Vanilla Apple Glaze
FALL RECIPE
RECIPES
These Pumpkin Spice Muffins are everything we love about winter baking, warmly spiced, soft in the centre and finished with a sweet vanilla apple glaze and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt. They feel nostalgic in the best way, like something baked on a chilly afternoon and enjoyed with a cup of tea while the rain taps at the windows.
The pumpkin keeps them wonderfully moist, while cinnamon and spice bring all the cosy winter flavours. The glaze adds just enough sweetness, balancing the gentle earthiness of the pumpkin without overpowering it.
Perfect tucked into school lunchboxes, packed for weekend sports mornings, or enjoyed slightly warm with coffee. They also freeze beautifully, making them a lovely recipe to have on hand throughout the colder months.
Yields: 15 Muffins | Prep Time: 20 minutes
Bake Time: 20 minutes | Cooling Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Method
01
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a 12-hole muffin tin and a second tin with 3 extra cases, or use a 15-hole muffin tin.
02
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the melted butter, brown sugar and caster sugar until well combined and slightly fluffy.
Add the eggs, pumpkin purée, Greek yoghurt and vanilla extract, mixing until smooth and fully incorporated.
03
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, mixed spice, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Take care not to overmix.
04
Using an ice cream scoop or large spoon, divide the batter evenly between the muffin cases, filling each about three-quarters full. The recipe makes approximately 15 muffins. Bake for 18–22 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
05
While the muffins are baking, prepare the glaze by whisking together all the glaze ingredients until smooth. Once baked, allow the muffins to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack. Drizzle the glaze over the warm muffins and finish with a light sprinkle of Maldon sea salt flakes.
Ingredients
115g butter, melted
200g soft brown sugar
50g caster sugar (or white sugar)
2 large eggs
5ml vanilla extract
45ml Greek yoghurt
425g pumpkin purée*
290g cake flour
10ml ground cinnamon
5ml mixed spice**
2.5ml salt
7.5ml baking powder
5ml bicarbonate of soda
FOR THE GLAZE
60ml apple butter (or thick apple purée)
250g icing sugar
45ml milk
Pinch of cinnamon
5ml vanilla extract
HUNTER & SNOW'S PICKS
The Designer look,
without the Designer price.
Changing your home with the seasons doesn’t need to be a big overhaul, just a few beautiful, budget-friendly finds that shift the feeling. For those starting out, or simply wanting the look for less, this is my collection of elevated pieces and everyday finds I am spotting that can help bring that more designer feel into your home.
It’s less about redecorating and more about responding, letting your home mirror what’s happening outside. When your space moves with the seasons, it starts to feel alive, warmer in winter, lighter in summer, softer in between.
"Set in the quiet wild of Colorado, Go as a River follows Victoria Nash, growing up on a peach farm with her father and brother, two men shaped by grief, control, and silence. There’s no softness in the house, no real language for emotion, just expectation and a sense of staying in line.
Victoria moves through it all quietly. Observant, inward, carrying more than she says. There’s a restraint to her, but also a quiet strength, like something in her is always watching, always waiting.
A chance meeting turns into something that shifts everything, and what follows is not just love, but what’s left after it. Loss, silence, survival. The kind of story that unfolds over years, where the weight isn’t in the moments themselves, but in what they leave behind.
Her father and brother remain constant forces, shaping her, limiting her, anchoring her in ways that feel both heavy and inescapable.
It’s deeply rooted in place, the land, the stillness, the isolation, in that same way Crawdads is. You don’t just read it, you sit inside it."
Inspired by true events, it’s quiet, raw, and human. It moved me in a way I didn’t expect, the kind that builds slowly and then stays. I don’t re-read books, but I found myself going back, not for the story, but for the feeling. And even now, there’s a part of me that still sits with her, wondering how it all continued, as if those lives didn’t end when the book did.
IT'S ALL ABOUT A GOOD BOOK
It had me completely. I could see it all like a film, that same wild, quiet atmosphere as Where the Crawdads Sing. It’s about love, loss, and the kind of choices that shift everything… but in a really human, unpolished way. Not heavy for the sake of it — just real, and it stays with you.
Where we’re going, what we’re making & the things we’re loving.
A collection of the places inspiring us, the things we are creating, the recipes we are making, the homes we are styling and the pieces we are currently loving this season. Consider this our winter moodboard, filled with thoughtful finds, slower moments and everyday inspiration for home and life.
