I am not a huge fan of carrot cake. The only reason I really eat carrot cake is actually for the cream cheese frosting. Mmmm… that cream cheese frosting is too die for. As a family, we are not carrot lovers. Excluding my mother of course, she is the complete opposite. Thanks to her Aunty … Continue reading Brazilian carrot cake

There will be days like this my mother said. For example change of season, which is throwing my sinuses into disarray, which means all I am doing is sneezing and in this pandemic we are currently experiencing, I am getting dirty looks left right and center. Which also means that I am high as a … Continue reading Spiced chai bundt cake

There are 10 days left of the extended lockdown. Will it end or will it continue??? Only time and the President will tell. Do I want it to end or do I want it to continue??? Well I am all for it coming to an end and everyone going back to work and trying to … Continue reading Salted dark chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache

What a Friday… I think it’s Friday, not sure all I know is that I am a light weight. A few years back, I went a tad bit crazeee buying every single bottle of wine I ever came across in the grocery store, I just kept it in storage to mature. I used to have … Continue reading Mowgli chocolate cake

I can’t remember the last time I made a chocolate cake, let alone ate one. I love anything chocolate, but it is the cleaning up part that I hate the most. Everything that is covered in a layer of cocoa powder, needs to be cleaned separately because once you take one look at the brown … Continue reading Texas sheet cake

When I first read the name for this cake I read it wrong and thought a masala cake. Then I started on the recipe and I was like hey wait a second I left out the masala and when I went back to check the recipe again I saw that I had in fact recreated … Continue reading Ras Malai cake

Who doesn’t love tinned peaches served ontop of freshly whipped sweetened cream? I love them and there is always a tin of peaches laying around in the cupboard in case there needs to be an emergency trifle that has to be whipped up for no apparent reason. When I first came across this recipe I … Continue reading Peaches and cream

Every once in a while, during the course of the week, I make a cake. Sometimes waiting till Sunday comes around just to dive into a delicious cake can be soo tiresome and Sunday always seems to take forever to show its ugly head again. I came across this recipe in Chetna Makan’s recipe book. … Continue reading Black sesame and lime cake

Every once in a while, I decide to give it my mother persistent hinting that we should have chocolate cake for Sunday tea time. As you all know by now that my dad hates chocolate cake with a passion and seeing as my mum and I always get I way, I tend to give him … Continue reading Vegan chocolate cake

When my uncle was alive, all he could do was nag and nag me for fresh cream cakes or moist chocolate cakes. Every time he saw me, those were the first things out of his mouth. Of course my mother would shout me and tell me not to encourage him, it was not good for … Continue reading Eggless chocolate cake with fresh cream and caramel