High Rise Bakery

Had tons of fun making scones, drinking tea, and chatting about food at last week's scone making workshop!

Learn to make your own mini afternoon tea, booking available from my website highrisebakery.ca

I'm coming back to town (Toronto) and finally taking some orders! Ordering is available through the contact form on my website.

I know it's been a while since I've posted on here. I've been spending the last few months travelling, writing, and focusing on my academic work, but now I'm so happy to be baking again! I spent a month and a half in Germany studying Urdu, brushing up on my German, visiting family, and of course eating cake 🎂

Here I tried out a nrw almond orange blossom cake inspired by a Moroccan recipe. Made without gluten, simple and delicious!

I will be taking limited orders in Toronto starting October 20th up until mid-December, so if you want to order a cake just fill out the contact form on my website! I will also have availability in Calgary for the Christmas season. On top of that, I'm doing my scone-making workshops, also available for sign-up on my website.

Afternoon tea workshop now available!

Have you been enjoying picnic season? Yesterday I brought some scones to enjoy outside - they're perfect picnic food! I'm now offering workshops so you can learn how to make perfect British scones and cucumber sandwiches. We will also taste some high quality teas so you can be a true tea connaisseur!

Booking link at my website highrisebakery.ca

Cream Tea workshop now available! Link to book at highrisebakery.ca/workshops

Happy Sunday!

Isn't Sunday the perfect day for afternoon tea? Today I'll be doing the first cream tea workshop where you learn to make the jewel of afternoon tea, classic British scones. And of course, you can't forget the tea! So we're also doing a tasting of high quality Indian, Chinese, and British teas. I'm so excited to finally be sharing this workshop!

Link to book is on my website highrisebakery.ca

What's your favourite way to spend a Sunday?

Baking and tea-tasting workshops now available!

Many people ask me why I chose the name High Rise Bakery - and since I'm a classic nerd of course it was a 3-way pun:
▪︎ The bakery started on the top floor of a "high-rise" apartment building
▪︎ Cakes "rise" in the oven
▪︎ The "high-rising" hot air balloon from "Around the World in 80 days" shows the international variety of desserts on offer

Now that I've moved to Toronto the hot air balloon has taken on a whole new meaning - after working in Edmonton, Calgary, and now Toronto, it's starting to feel like a travelling bakery 🌍

Please join me on my journey, tasting sweets inspired by traditions from around the world.

I will be hosting tea-tasting and scone-making workshops so you too can discover international flavours and how to bring them to your table! Information available on my website highrisebakery.ca

Introducing the Sophie cake!

This was one of the first cakes that I added to my menu: a coffee chiffon with a layer of chestnut cream, frosted with creamy French buttercream, topped with naturally dyed white chocolate ganache, and decorated with marzipan.

This cake is named after Sophie Blanchard, the first professional female hot air balloonist whose creativity and gall is a great inspiration for me. As I'm setting up my business here in Toronto I only hope that I can channel some of her adventurous spirit!

I'm doing limited orders in Toronto this summer, so check out my website for the menu and fill out a contact form to order. I am also doing a baking and tea tasting workshop. Check it out on my website at highrisebakery.ca 🎂

Hello Toronto!

It's been a long road with moving cities and getting a house set up. After doing my undergrad here, I've always wanted to move back and now I've finally gotten the chance!

With things more settled, I'm getting ready to bake again and I will have some availability to bake in July before High Rise Bakery fully reopens in October. Take a look at my website highrisebakery.ca to see my cakes and other creations!

I will also have a scone baking and tea tasting workshop available this summer! Booking link is on my website.

Thank you Toronto and I hope I can bring even more joy to this city through sweets!

Time for new beginnings in Toronto!

Spring has finally come to Alberta, the grass starting to turn green and the trees finally getting their buds. Spring always brings with it new beginnings, and for me that will be a fresh start in Toronto. I'm sad to leave my friends and family here, but I hope to keep making delicious cakes and lovely new connections in Ontario!

This was a special request for the Nannerl cake (inspired by the famous chocolate Sacher torte) with an alternate design. I don't do a lot of custom designs, but I love anything on the woodland theme! Marzipan eggs sit in a nest of chocolate ganache and swiss meringue buttercream on top of a fudgy almond flour chocolate cake.

What new beginnings are coming your way?

A cute little marzipan daffodil on a classic carrot cake!

I switched up the standard cream cheese frosting for a silky smooth swiss meringue cream cheese frosting, added dates and brown butter to the cake, and layered with walnuts and Seville orange jam.

Carrot cake is such a nostalgic spring flavour! Did you grow up eating carrot cake?

I was very lucky to be able to learn how to make pastel de natas from a master at !

This deceivingly simple little pastry definitely takes some expertise to make. Many bakeries specialize and only sell pastel de nata! While it's not going on my menu anytime soon, it was definitely a fun experience learning to make this delicious treat.

Hope you all had a happy Easter!

I didn't have the chance to make a cake for Easter this year since I was travelling, but here is last year's cake. Mini eggs are one of my favourite candies, so I paired them with chocolate buttermilk cake, German buttercream, coconut flakes, and a ganache nest.

Did you have any Easter treats this year?

Join me in my baking journey as I move my home-based bakery to Toronto!

It's hard to believe it's been a year since I made my first sale! I didn't start out wanting to sell cakes, but just to make something delicious for my friends and family. But I kept on experimenting and perfecting my recipes until eventually I decided to share my baking with a larger audience.

This was a cake I made for my family in 2020: funfetti cake with swiss meringue buttercream and marzipan decor.