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.
Simple moist chocolate cake
No scale needed. Cocoa bloomed in hot coffee, a batter that looks too thin, and a crumb that stays soft for days.
Classic vanilla sponge cake
Two 8 inch layers, light enough to stack and sturdy enough to hold buttercream. Sift the flour four times.
Easy and moist breakfast muffins
Twelve muffins in about half an hour. Self-raising flour, oil and milk, folded not beaten, so they stay soft.
Vanilla cake for beginners
The recipe Zimbabweans bake first. Soft crumb, four ingredients you'll already have, notes for Harare's altitude.
Easy chocolate cake
Cocoa, hot water, the right pan. The chocolate cake we'd give a friend who said "I can't bake."
Black Forest cake
Chocolate sponge, cherry filling and fresh cream, the Harare classic baked at home.
Red Velvet cake
Deep red crumb with tangy cream cheese frosting, tested for the ingredients you can buy in Harare.
Carrot cake
Spiced carrot and walnut sponge with a smooth cream cheese frosting.
Lemon poppy seed cake
Bright lemon sponge with a gentle poppy seed crunch and a light glaze.
Herman Canadian cake
The Zimbabwean classic, gentle vanilla and a soft crumb, recreated at home.
Death by Chocolate cake
Triple-chocolate sponge with a rich ganache, the studio house favourite.
Rather have us bake it?
Order the cake, skip the kitchen.
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.
Want to learn it in person?
Take a baking lesson.
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.
See lessonsRather have us bake it?
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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.