Valentine’s day cake, this year again take 2 on my Valentine’s Vintage cake. This Valentine’s day give that someone special this dreamy flavour combo of rose scented frosting and the lightest of the saffron infused cake. This Saffron and rose cake also nestles itself perfectly in the season, the dreary weather of February needs some fun flavours too right? Valentine’s Vintage Cake : Saffron & Rose Cake Saffron & Pistachio cake:  Fluffy, saffron infused sheet cake, cut into little heart cakes.  Fresh toasty pistachios bits in the saffron cake gives it an extra texture.  ..read more

How is your Christmas baking going on? I have been quite slow this year but I did manage a few delightful cookies.  Thumbprint cookies, the best kind of cookies. You can literally customize it as you want, you can add jams, jelly, make it savory, make it saucy or chocolatey! This cookie dough is super simple, needs minimal chilling time, can be kept frozen for baking whenever want.\ Thumbprint cookies make excellent addition in cookie boxes. If you are looking to make a cookie box, I have something better “The Ultimate Party Box” Dulche de leche recipe using a can of condensed milk. If y ..read more

Apple Pie Cake… Think apple pie but in cake, its pie season and I am all for pies but sometimes I want all the goodness of the pie but have no patience for making a pie crust and all that bits and bobs.  So what is in this cake? Brown Butter Spiced Apple Cake:  Nutty soft apple cake, with notes of pumpkin/apple spices mixed with the deep intense nutty flavor from the home made brown butter. Tiny apple chunks throughout the cake layers give it a whole new texture to the cake. The brown butter recipe can be found here.                 ..read more

Halloween Cakes are something I have enjoy making every year… I always have something in mind and it always ends up looking like something else   This is a mix of the 2022 trend of Lambeth – Vintage style piping with a touch of gothic and creepy vibes. The recipe for this cake is a mix mash of my other Halloween cakes. Halloween Lambeth cake is a super fudge-y Devil’s chocolate cake filled with chocolate fudge frosting and a rich caramel-ey dulche de leche.  Halloween Lambeth Coffin Cake Devil’s Chocolate Cake (Coffin Shape) : A moist dark chocolate cake, baked on a half sheet pan ..read more

Summer time with lemon and chamomile cake. If you have beautiful chamomile flowers popping up in your garden, this is the best thing to make- the cake is all summer in a bite! I know its too hot right now for baking but this is sorta kinda worth it!  Sometimes you want a drop of lemon and honey to just ease in the day, and that’s really what this is, a familiar favourite but as a cake. Chamomile is known to help calm the body, and the lemon pairs really well with that subtle flavour giving it a bright a fresh touch. Definitely a summer favourite, this decadent and comforting combination o ..read more

St. Patrick’s day is here, not that we really celebrate but its all another excuse to make more cakes! This time its my little pot o’ gold cereal milk cake, what makes it special is all deep oaty flavor in the cake that works perfectly with the rich golden caramalised white chocolate and fun little lucky charm marshmallows!  Just an absolute delight of  teatime snack, this cereal milk cake complete with a topping of lucky charms is definitely what you want to bake this St. Patrick’s Day. One bite and you too can feel that luck of the Irish.  Pot ‘O Gold Cereal milk Cake: Cerea ..read more

Blueberry Jam Cake,  a simple cake made with frozen berries. This cake is perfect for “cleaning out your freezer”, part of your spring cleaning this year. So dig out your frozen berries that are hiding in the bottom of your freezer and make this perfect snacking cake!  Canned jam has a long history and creating a jam is just an easy method of preserving fruit and generally, the more sugar you add the longer it lasts! Even so, a great jam is often about balancing the sweet and tart flavours. Blueberries can be quite sweet on their own here in Vancouver, so I try not to add too much su ..read more

It’s that time of the year, where everything turns red and love is in the air and what better to celebrate with than Chocolate and Raspberry Cupcakes, perfect for this season. Raspberry and chocolate are each superstars in their own right, but when they come together, the bright flavour of the berries is a perfect compliment to the rich flavour of the chocolate. These bold flavours are perfectly accompanied by the softer rose water making for a well rounded cupcake.  Spoil yourself and that someone special this Valentines Day with this bombshell of a cupcake.  Chocolate the aphrodis ..read more

Winter citrus is the ultimate winter bounty and this year I managed to find some of the sweetest mandarins I have ever tasted. This Mandarin cake is all about the goodness that the winter citrus has to offer you. Mandarins are smaller and flatter than oranges with a thinner, but loose skin which is easy to peal. They tend to be sweeter than oranges as well, with less acidity. Mandarins originated in China, but their cultivation has spread across the world making them easily available in most produce sections- usually when they are seasonal. The three main categories that this fruit falls in ar ..read more

Banoffee Trifle:  For those who don’t usually celebrate, trifle is a festive season desert that is typically a mix of sweet elements in a giant dish, ensuring there’s enough for everybody and then some. Banoffee on the other hand is a simple banana and toffee “pie”, admittedly a tad rich but just never enough… unless…  Banoffee pie but make it mega and extra delicious with the goodness of coconut, dulche de leche, bananas and chantilly cream. The Layers in this Banoffee Trifle Dulche de leche: Layers of thick, luscious  homemade dulche de leche made easier using condensed milk ..read more