I’ve been wanting to make a salad cake since I first saw this cool-ass one on Reddit maybe a year ago. Then, my mother-in-law, son and I were watching The Great Canadian Baking Show and the very cool Chi made such an artful, beautiful salad cake that we all gasped together. I also found this […]
Maximalist Dome Cakes
Currently trending in 2026, maximalist dome cakes are right up my alley. I love a weird shape, I love a sculptural thing, I love an artful, wacky cake, and wow even though I haven’t been blogging in forever, I really have made a few of these adorable dome cakes, also known as cake bombes! A […]
Litter Box Cake Tutorial
The cat-themed cake you never knew you wanted: the litter box cake!!! This crazy ol cake design has been around for many many years, and I finally got around to making my own version. The litter box cake is hilariously simple to make, pretty disgusting but also perfect for the cat lover in your life […]
Blank Space Cake – No Balloon!
Teddy has been asking me to try making the viral Taylor Swift Blank Space cake – do you know this bonkers cake? It’s where you hide some sort of edible fake blood inside of a pristine white buttercream frosted heart cake, and then you proceed to stab it with a knife. YEP. Haha… I was […]
Easy Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes
One of the first recipes I ever “veganized” were these easy vegan chocolate cupcakes! It all started with a modified Martha Stewart one-bowl chocolate cupcakes recipe, swapping out dairy milk for coconut milk. I loved the richness and moistness of the cupcakes, thanks to the full-fat coconut milk swap. Then I figured: well, I’ve ditched […]
Burger Time! How To Make A Burger Cake
How to make a burger cake – let’s do it! Have you ever tried making a hamburger cake? This burger cake is simple as can be, using vanilla cakes and a chocolate cake “patty” to make up the burgers and buns. Vanilla buttercream tinted in various colours acts as the condiments – mayo, ketchup, mustard […]
Apple Caramel Cake With Oatmeal Cookie Crumbles
It’s always fascinating to see which recipes are most popular when a new cookbook is released. When Plantcakes: Fancy + Everyday Vegan Cakes for Everyone came out, I was not surprised that this ridiculously delicious apple caramel cake with oatmeal cookie crumbles blasted straight to the top! Woohoo! Honestly, I rarely crave cake after making […]
Strawberry Swiss Roll Cake Recipe
Last Lunar New Year, I wanted to make an Asian style sponge cake with not-too-sweet whipped cream and fruit. Oftentimes I’ll just wing it with NO PLAN when I’m making a cake. This is how the Strawberry Lucky Log of Good Health and Prosperity TM was born – I ended up making the weirdest looking […]
Easy Vegan Mango Pudding
Happy Lunar New Year! One of my favourite jiggly, fruity refreshing desserts is mango pudding! The smooth, creamy mango dessert is the perfect, lightly-sweetened treat after an epic dim sum smorgasbord. This easy vegan mango pudding recipe has four ingredients, yay! How To Make Easy Mango Pudding Being from a Chinese Canadian family, at our […]
Easy Vegan Chocolate Toffee Bark
The holidays are BACK, which means it’s holiday gifting time! My favourite thing to gift is, of course, edible gifts (not the weed gummy kind, but that seems like a great gift too, hehe)! I’m talking COOKIES, candies, treats galore, all packaged up in something cute and festive and not too fussy. Thus, I’m sharing […]
Kawaii Easter Bunny Cake
HEAD! ON! A! PLATE!!! It’s tough not to love this Kawaii Easter Bunny Cake, even if there’s a gentle morbidity to it. I adore these “animal loaf” style cakes and I wanted to make a super cute bunny one! The fun part about these style of cakes? I used ONE single cake layer. So you […]
Vegan Strawberry Heart Cake Recipe
Strawberry Heart Cake Cuteness Got a heart-shape cake pan? If so, you can easily make this strawberry heart cake! The cake is a single layer strawberry cake with piped strawberry buttercream and chocolate chips for seeds. This cake is perfect for summer birthdays, for a FRUIT PARTY!? or, of course, a twist on a Valentine’s […]
Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies Are Your New Old Fave
Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies Toffee chocolate chip cookies are everything you need to emotional eat your days away into weight gain oblivion. What is your favourite type of chocolate chip cookie? Flat, crisp and chewy? Puffy, soft and cakey? I’ve been making cookies for … decades? Haha… they are so comforting to me, like a […]
Unicorn Cake: A Tale Of Two Horns
WHO CORNED IT BETTER!? A tale of two horns, The Case Of The Buttercream Kawaii Unicorn Cake by Lyndsay Sung. I dunno why, but for some reason the unicorn cake has always been my nemesis. My kryptonite, the sparkling green mega-crystal that has doomed me into stress levels unknown to womyn. Yes there are a […]
Buttercream Piped Mushroom Cookie Cake Toppers!
Everyone loves a kawaii toadstool mushroom! Now you can make an adorable easy sugar cookie mushroom cookie or two, and plunk them into the cutest woodland party-time cake. I’ve partnered with Becel to showcase their new Becel Sticks! Pre-measured, casual times, no need to bring to room temperature – one more reason to be “zen cupcake” this […]
Rainbow Caticorn Cake
Updated April 9, 2026 Sometimes in life you just want to look at a freaking cute picture of a rainbow caticorn cake, you know? Yes, that’s right. A majestic unicorn and a very cute chill cat got together one extra-sparkly afternoon and decided to make a baby. I’m not even going to say who was […]
Iced Matcha Latte With Coffee Jelly
Iced Matcha Latte I’m freaking out over this iced matcha latte with coffee jelly drink (could I just be on an insane caffeine high from drinking two of these in a row? Probably.) I don’t think I’ve ever posted a drink recipe on this blog but this is GOLDEN and will catapult your hot summery […]
How To Make A Cake Bombe
Dome cake, aesthetic cake, bowl cake – if you’ve been wondering how to make a cake bombe, look no further! It’s actually much easier than you think to achieve this charming, offbeat cake! I love my cake bombes decorated in buttercream ruffles, squiggles and leaves, or you could cover it entirely with buttercream flowers! The […]
Plantcakes Book Party at To Live For Bakery!
Vancouver! I’m having a Plantcakes Book Party at my sweet bud Erin Ireland‘s beautiful To Live For Bakery! Join us on Thursday September 28th from 6:30 to 8:30pm to celebrate the launch of Plantcakes. Meet and greet, book signing, chit chatting and hanging around – there will also be CAKE! Plus Yummy snacks and drinks […]
PLANTCAKES IS HERE!
Time keeps on slipping into the future, and yes PLANTCAKES is now available!!! Wowza times a million wowzas. It was 2020 when I pitched a book called Kawaii Animal Cakes (SUPER CUTE book idea, folks!) and while publishers thought it was indeed super cute as heck, no one was interested because my first book didn’t […]
Vintage Lambeth Cake for Pink Mountaintops
I made this vintage lambeth cake for a special bud, our old friend Steve McBean of Pink Mountaintops! Many moons ago, I played and performed in the first iteration of Steve’s band – a rock n roll outfit of 7 or 8 pals, lots of percussion, harmonies and a hazy California Dreaming vibe of good […]
Frog Cake Aesthetic
I mean, LITTLE frog sitting on top of BIG frog!? Frog Cake Aesthetic representing in this hilarious cake. I think I’m just going to get better at piping these blobby little froggies – here’s one I piped on top of this Frog Cake/Jabba The Hutt mash-up cake from a while back. I haven’t piped tooooo […]
Kawaii Shave Ice Cake!
My Kawaii Shave Ice Cake has a bit of a tan, just like me! Hehe. We were in Maui for Spring Break with my whole fam! So of course we ate all the things, including several stops for shave ice. After a wild and windy day at a beach in Paia, we hit Ululani’s for […]
