Holiday Frootcake

Richly studded with nuts, roots and fruits – an unexpected combination to add to your baking arsenal.

Red Bean Spice Cake

Moist and perfumed with orange and spice, a flavourful addition to tea-time.

Maple Tea Cake

catherine yronwode is a woman I admire for her encyclopaedic knowledge, her business acumen, her magical skill and her absolutely fabulous honey cake.  It’s rich, moist, filled with spices and sweetness and if you want the recipe it can be found in the Hoodoo Food cookbook. Now given I can never leave well enough alone,…

Squash-Carob-Spice Cake

Not being able to decide between Jae Steele’s carob spice cake or zucchini chocolate cake, I took it upon myself to make both simultaneously.  There was a fair amount of creative license in the process since when possible, I prefer sourdough cakes in order to make the nutrients from the grains more bio-available (and because…