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Our top 10 new recipes of 2024

From dinner to dessert, these are the recipes you’ve loved this year.
Chanel Gellin Digital Content Producer
Frances Abdallaoui Food Director
Sarah McInerney Digital managing editor
Apple and carrot cake, one of our top recipes of 2024
Apple and carrot cake.

At Women’s Weekly Food we love to inspire you with beautiful, Test Kitchen tested recipes. You love dinners to make weeknights easier, and of course, our stunning cakes and desserts to wow. From the hundreds of new recipes we’ve published on our site this year, these are your top 10.

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You’ve loved Julie Goodwin’s lamb forequarter chops tray bake, the perfect one-dish family dinner. This was originally published in The Australian Women’s Weekly in 2016 and put online this year.

Air fryer zucchini balls hit it out of the park, and our gorgeous apple and carrot cake rounded out the top three. While classic cooking and baking methods are always treasured, 2024’s popular appliances earned their spots on the bench, with slow cooker, air fryer and Instant Pot creations making the list.

From our collection of classics, the top recipes included our Anzac biscuit recipe, zucchini slice, chicken and leek pie, and our Christmas favourite, rum balls.

Food Director Fran Abdallaoui’s top picks

We asked our Food Director Fran Abdallaoui for her take on this year’s most popular new recipes. “What a delicious year it’s been and it’s no surprise that Julie Goodwin’s lamb chop recipe (pictured below) took out our most popular new recipe. It’s budget-friendly no-fuss comfort food at its tastiest! The flavours are familiar and the method super-easy and we all love that for midweek cooking,” says Abdallaoui.

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Julie Goodwin's lamb forequarter chops tray bake, our top recipes of 2024
Julie Goodwin’s lamb forequarter chops tray bake.

“Apples were definitely the theme running through the trending baking recipes,” says Abdallaoui. “I agree the apple loaf and apple and carrot cake were high on my list of bakes for 2024. These results tell me you’re loving our classic recipes with a twist and sometimes even a retro favourite to nurture the soul! I’m looking forward to sharing loads more fabulous dishes with you in 2025. Happy cooking, Fran.”

These top 10 recipes of 2024 are so delicious it’s no surprise you’ve been making them on repeat. And if you haven’t tried some of them yet, click through for the full recipes and enjoy!

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Chanel Gellin
Digital Content Producer Chanel Gellin Digital Content Producer

Chanel is the Digital Content Producer at Women’s Weekly Food. She has worked in media for more than 10 years and can’t say no to a good margherita pizza or anything with raspberries. At home with her husband, son and two cats (Rocket and Quill), she loves planning easy weeknight dinners and creating family food traditions – like letting bananas go brown for banana bread, homemade pizza and movie nights, and weekend pancakes.

Frances Abdallaoui
Food Director Fran Abdallaoui Food Director, The Australian Women's Weekly

Fran has been part of the fabric of the Women's Weekly Test Kitchen for more than 25 years, cooking, writing and creating thousands of recipes with a talented team of collaborators. You’ll often see her pop up on cooking segments on TV or fronting our videos where she shares cooking tips and her favourite tools in the kitchen. It's obvious food is Fran’s love language, sprinkling her joy and knowledge wherever she appears and usually with cake! Some of her favourite things are eating out, great coffee and a negroni.

Sarah McInerney
Digital managing editor Sarah McInerney Digital managing editor - Women's Weekly Food

Sarah McInerney is the digital managing editor of Women's Weekly Food. She learnt to cook in the kitchen with her mum, using recipes from the Women’s Weekly, some of which are still family favourites today. Sarah has a Master of Arts in Journalism from UTS and a Bachelor of Business Systems from Monash University. She has worked in the food media for more than a decade across titles such as Cuisine, the Good Food Guide and Good Food. Her favourite part of working in a digital role is building online communities and seeing the information sharing and camaraderie that takes place. Something she gets to witness on a daily basis at Women’s Weekly Food. Sarah’s favourite foods are salmon and scrambled eggs, which she will happily eat together for her favourite meal of the day, breakfast, alongside her favourite drink, coffee.

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