At Cabbage & Cake, you will find inspiration to create a beautiful and delicious life!
We will work our magic in the kitchen, whip up some delightful homemade treats and from scratch recipes using what’s growing in the garden and get creative doing handmade projects with lots of love and nature’s treasures.
Follow along for a weekly dose of inspiration, homemade recipes and DIYs.
Hyacinths are stunning, bold coloured spring flowers with a strong scent that will lift your spirits and bring a feeling of spring into your space! Turn someone’s junk into your own treasure by repurposing some thrifted dishes to use as planters for these beautiful plants.
Hanging kokedamas (Japanese for “moss ball”) can be a beautiful way to display your house plants. This beautiful hanging orchid kokedama is made by encasing an orchid in orchid potting mix, wrapping it with sphagnum moss and tightly securing it with twine. Get creative and transform your favourite plants with this beautiful Japanese gardening art!
These waffle pops are an adorable treat to make with your loved ones on Valentine’s Day and a lovely idea for parties, brunch or dessert. It’s an easy recipe, made with a mini waffle maker and great one to make with kids. Dip them in melted chocolate and decorate them with colourful sprinkles, coconut flakes, slivered almonds, crushed nuts or pistachios.
A lovely heart wreath made from a wire wreath and painted grape vines, decorated with small leafed eucalyptus, purple statice flowers and pink carnations in hanging mini vases. This wreath is reusable for years to come and can be filled with new flowers over and over again. It looks beautiful and makes an adorable gift for Valentine’s or Mother’s day.
Make this beauty of a Linzer cookie to show someone how big your love is for them this Valentine’s Day and enjoy it together on this special day! The perfect melt in your mouth cookie filled with bright and fruity raspberry jam that has just the right amount of crunch from the seeds and a heavy dusting of icing sugar to top it all off.
This easy recipe makes a delicious smelling lotion bar that will leave your skin super soft and silky. It is quickly made by melting beeswax, cocoa butter and coconut oil, adding in Vitamin E-oil and sweet orange essential oil and pouring it into silicon molds. I love the magical scent of these chocolaty and uplifting sweet orange lotion bars especially for the cold winter season and the deep hydration they provide for my skin.
Use the cold weather to make some stunning ice lanterns that will beautify your front door, porch, backyard or balcony. All you really need is water, balloons, lights and time- and freezing temperatures of course! It’s an easy and fun DIY project and a great one to make with kids to add some magical glow to the cold and dark winter nights.
My favourite hot drink after Christmas! This recipe uses roasted dandelion roots in combination with chai spices to make a delicious warming and detoxing chai tea. Drinking dandelion root tea is a great way to detox and support your liver after the holidays and a very tasty one too!
