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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How To Make A Baby Yoda Cake
KAWAII BABY YODA CAKE!? Oh, my heart! I really had the urge to snuggle down with this little Grogu cake sweetheart and curl up for a nice afternoon nap with cake baby Yoda as my pillow. But, well, you know – him being a cake and all… I’ve been wanting to make a baby Y […]
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 […]
