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  • Why vanilla is so expensive!

    Hello Cake Friends! Did you know that vanilla has become as valuable as silver – the second most valuable metal after gold? And prices are still rising.  This didn’t use to be this way. What happened? Indeed, we can call it liquid gold. In this video, I explain the difference between real vanilla and imitation […]

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  • Swiss carrot cake

    Flashback to 2013: Easter Sunday came, and I still hadn’t baked or decorated anything Easter-themed. But just before the day was over, I got this urge to make a traditional Swiss carrot cake, the way my grandmother makes it. Of course that meant using the Betty Bossi recipe out of this book, which every good […]

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