Recipes

Bake what we bake. We'll show you how.

Cake recipes from the studio, tested in Harare's altitude, written for the ingredients you can actually find. Beginner-friendly, photographed step by step. If you'd rather we bake it, every recipe links to the cake on our menu.

Latest recipes

Tested in our kitchen.

A simple vanilla cake on a plate, dusted with sugar

Beginner · Cake

Vanilla cake for beginners

The recipe Zimbabweans bake first. Soft crumb, four ingredients you'll already have, notes for Harare's altitude.

50 min · Serves 8Free recipe →

A slice of dark chocolate cake on a small plate

Beginner · Cake

Easy chocolate cake

Cocoa, hot water, the right pan. The chocolate cake we'd give a friend who said "I can't bake."

55 min · Serves 10Free recipe →

More coming

More recipes on the way.

Herman Canadian, Death by Chocolate, Carrot, Red Velvet, we're publishing the studio recipes one at a time. Subscribe to studio notes to know when each one drops.

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Every recipe here exists as a cake on our menu, same ratios, finished and decorated in the studio. Order on WhatsApp with one day's notice and we'll deliver in Harare.

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Cake basics, buttercream finishing, fondant, sugar flowers, small-group lessons in the studio. Beginners welcome. You leave with the cake you made and the recipe.

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Send us the flavour, the size, and the date on WhatsApp, and we will reply on WhatsApp almost instantly with a quote.

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