baking

  • Simply cake

    Well, it’s a month since the last cake post, and I’m in a pretty similar spot: enjoying a rainy afternoon at home, everything bursting with greenness outside. I don’t think this blog or the world particularly needs another cake recipe,…

  • Lunch’n’learn: vegan baking

    Grab your rolling pin and get ready to blow everyone’s minds with a variety of delicious, nutritious, fully vegan cookies this Christmas. Yes, it’s possible, and no, it’s not hard. Cookies are a great introduction to vegan baking, and you’ll…

  • Rhubarb olive oil cake

    Olive oil is not just for salad! It loves cake just as much… Think of it as the red cocktail dress of the baking world — it doesn’t feature in every event, but when you bring it out at the…

  • Козунак

    This past weekend was Orthodox Easter. Three (!) years ago I wrote a post on our Habakuk blog about козунак, a traditional Easter yeast-raised sweet bread.

  • Gluten-free cake goodness

    The other day, I felt like eating cake. It was also high time for a blog post. And I recently met a friend who’s eating mostly gluten-free. So I thought, “Why, I’ll develop a gluten-free cake recipe for the blog,…

  • Abundance

    Friends, it’s plum season here in Berlin. We got a giant bucket of the stuff at the yoga cafe the other day, from the house manager or somebody who has a farm nearby…

  • Ginger peach lemon cake

    Threw together a version of this cake for the tea break at my yoga course this week and enough people seemed to enjoy it that I thought I’d share the recipe.