Dome cake, aesthetic cake, bowl cake – if you’ve been wondering how to make a cake bombe, look no further! It’s actually much easier than you think to achieve this charming, offbeat cake! I love my cake bombes decorated in buttercream ruffles, squiggles and leaves, or you could cover it entirely with buttercream flowers! The beauty of the cake bombe is, you can stuff it full of amazing flavours and textures, and it all melds together as it chills into its signature rounded shape. Why Are These Cakes So Charming!? When I first started seeing these darling-shaped cake bombes on the interweb, I ..read more

One of the first recipes I ever “veganized” were these easy vegan chocolate cupcakes! It all started with a modified Martha Stewart one-bowl chocolate cupcakes recipe, swapping out dairy milk for coconut milk. I loved the richness and moistness of the cupcakes, thanks to the full-fat coconut milk swap. Then I figured: well, I’ve ditched the dairy, can I ditch the eggs? Eggs help bind cakes together, so I wasn’t ready to eliminate eggs altogether yet. I tried out several vegan egg replacer methods, but I found the consistency was too all over the place with different brands. In the end, the re ..read more

How to make a burger cake – let’s do it! Have you ever tried making a hamburger cake? This burger cake is simple as can be, using vanilla cakes and a chocolate cake “patty” to make up the burgers and buns. Vanilla buttercream tinted in various colours acts as the condiments – mayo, ketchup, mustard and even lettuce! The trick is to use a few different piping tips. I love this burger cake because it’s super cartoony-looking and simple to execute- perfect for beginners! Can I Veganize This Cake? But of course! I recommend using the recipes from my book Plantcakes! Or use your favourite vegan cak ..read more

It’s always fascinating to see which recipes are most popular when a new cookbook is released. When Plantcakes: Fancy + Everyday Vegan Cakes for Everyone came out, I was not surprised that this ridiculously delicious apple caramel cake with oatmeal cookie crumbles blasted straight to the top! Woohoo! Honestly, I rarely crave cake after making them for almost two decades, but this one – this one takes the cake! Your guests will truly NEVER guess this cake is vegan! This apple caramel cake hits all the right notes: It’s so moist and tender, with grated apple and applesauce and gentle spices La ..read more

Last Lunar New Year, I wanted to make an Asian style sponge cake with not-too-sweet whipped cream and fruit. Oftentimes I’ll just wing it with NO PLAN when I’m making a cake. This is how the Strawberry Lucky Log of Good Health and Prosperity TM was born – I ended up making the weirdest looking Swiss roll cake, and in an attempt to make it look cuter and more modern, I made it look… maybe a little diseased and hilarious? Regardless, the Strawberry Lucky Log was delicious and enjoyed by my entire family – so, I tried to make it again this year. Yes, it’s actually just a Strawberry Swiss Roll Ca ..read more

Happy Lunar New Year! One of my favourite jiggly, fruity refreshing desserts is mango pudding! The smooth, creamy mango dessert is the perfect, lightly-sweetened treat after an epic dim sum smorgasbord. This easy vegan mango pudding recipe has four ingredients, yay! How To Make Easy Mango Pudding Being from a Chinese Canadian family, at our family holiday dinners you will most often find a moulded, glistening lime-green Jell-o salad featuring canned peach slices suspended within alongside a pile of shiny chow mein. Yes, even Thanksgiving can feature Chinese food and Jell-o salad! My Auntie gi ..read more

Vancouver! I’m having a Plantcakes Book Party at my sweet bud Erin Ireland‘s beautiful To Live For Bakery! Join us on Thursday September 28th from 6:30 to 8:30pm to celebrate the launch of Plantcakes. Meet and greet, book signing, chit chatting and hanging around – there will also be CAKE! Plus Yummy snacks and drinks (courtesy of our friends at locally brewed Culture Craft Kombucha, Spread ‘Em Kitchen delicious cheeze and spreads, and Sapsucker organic maple sap sparkling water) exclusive limited edish Plantcakes MERCH! Come check out Erin’s amazing space, come check out the BOOK and say hel ..read more

Plantcakes: Fancy + Everday Vegan Cakes for Everyone by Lyndsay Sung Time keeps on slipping into the future, and yes PLANTCAKES is now available for pre-order! Wowza times a million wowzas. It was 2020 when I pitched a book called Kawaii Animal Cakes (SUPER CUTE book idea, folks!) and while publishers thought it was indeed super cute as heck, no one was interested because my first book didn’t produce the sales they were looking for. So, I pondered a different concept for another book, and landed upon my own changing eating habits – focusing more on plant-based eating! I’d already been “plantif ..read more

The perfect cake for a 54-year-old rock and roller dude, in my personal opinion! I made this vintage lambeth cake for a special bud, our old friend Steve McBean of Pink Mountaintops! Many moons ago, I played and performed in the first iteration of Steve’s band – a rock n roll outfit of 7 or 8 pals, lots of percussion, harmonies and a hazy California Dreaming vibe of good times, cool moments. Friendships were formed and bonded around beach campfires, midnight swims, human baby-sized burritos, and long hours listening to probably CASSETTE TAPES in the van. Bobbing along the highway, tunes cranke ..read more

“Hi, it’s me! I have a special friend on top of my headdddd!” I mean, LITTLE frog sitting on top of BIG frog!? Frog Cake Aesthetic representing in this hilarious cake. I think I’m just going to get better at piping these blobby little froggies – here’s one I piped on top of this Frog Cake/Jabba The Hutt mash-up cake from a while back. I haven’t piped tooooo many of these frogs, and you may be wondering… How to Pipe a Buttercream Frog! You will need a big old open-circle piping tip – I used the biggest jumbo one I had! Use a piece of parchment paper, and pipe a thick blob while pulling upward ..read more