Cardamom Cake with Saffron Cream Cheese Frosting

Cardamom cake with saffron cream cheese frosting is my riff on a Persian Love Cake. Cardamom, saffron, and rosewater are classic flavours in many dishes throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and West Asia. Ryan and I love Moroccan bastilla, a filo-like pastry stuffed with pigeon, sugar, and rosewater. Cardamom is a quintessential flavouring in […]

Easy Angel Food Cake

Easy Angel Food Cake

This angel food cake is so easy, I’ve already made it three times! Angel food cakes always intimidated me — what if the egg whites don’t whip up? What if the cake collapses? And how do you get all those egg whites? So what really inspired me to try baking an angel food cake myself […]

Applesauce Cake with Caramel Icing

Applesauce Cake with Caramel Icing

This applesauce cake is studded with walnuts and raisins and topped with an easy caramel icing. It’s a perfect autumn dessert, but Toronto is still cold and snowy and grey, so it still feels like November! The applesauce cake also perfectly showcases my favourite caramel icing. Most caramel icing recipes I’ve seen call for a […]

Black Chocolate Bundt Cake

Black Chocolate Bundt Cake

This black chocolate bundt cake uses black cocoa powder in the cake and the glaze, so it turns out black as night! Black cocoa powder is the intensely dark cocoa powder that is used to make Oreos. It has become more common recently; I get mine from Bulk Barn. This cake is really easy to […]

Cardamom Cake with Rosewater Whipped Cream

Cardamom Cake with Rosewater Whipped Cream

It was my birthday a couple weeks ago, and as per tradition, I made my own birthday cake. Therefore, this year I made a cardamom cake with rosewater whipped cream frosting. It includes the very Middle Eastern flavours of cardamom and rosewater, some of my family’s favourites! For garnish, I simply decorated the cake with […]