The Cinnamon Club

The Cinnamon Club Crafting Conscious Cakes, Cape Town 🌲
8 Courtyard Str, West Beach 📌
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Cheesecake is my favourite thing to make. Full stop. Out of everything on the menu, it's the one I actually look forward...
25/08/2026

Cheesecake is my favourite thing to make. Full stop. Out of everything on the menu, it's the one I actually look forward to prepping, and it's the one I'll eat myself given the choice 🍃

This pistachio one has been on the Cinnamon Club menu for about 2-3 years now, and I still remember making it properly for the first time and just going — wow, this is next level compared to what I was making a few years before that. Especially price-wise, for how genuinely pistachio-rich this cake is. It's easy to skimp on pistachio because it's not cheap, but that's the whole point of the cake — real ground pistachio through the filling, not a shortcut version of it. It's good to keep testing yourself even on something you've made a hundred times.

So when someone orders a cheesecake, it genuinely makes my day. It's the order I'm happiest to see come through.

Would you go pistachio or are you a classic-cheesecake purist? 👇

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A year ago, I wouldn't touch a wedding cake. 😬Too big. Too risky. Too much pressure to get it perfect.Fast forward 12 mo...
17/08/2026

A year ago, I wouldn't touch a wedding cake. 😬

Too big. Too risky. Too much pressure to get it perfect.

Fast forward 12 months...

Last week a lady asked for a vegan chocolate wedding cake.

My brain didn't even blink. 🍫

"Vegan AND chocolate? I can make that work."

Dark chocolate hides a multitude of sins. Ganache doesn't need to be silky-smooth-white to look incredible — it just needs to be dark, glossy, dramatic. Vegan buttercream can be a little rough round the edges and nobody would ever know.

But here's the one that still haunts me a little...

A few weeks before that — a dear customer, someone I've baked for for YEARS — asked me for a 3-tier vegan carrot cake. For her family's wedding. 💍

Same ask. Same "make it vegan." Completely different problem.

Because a carrot cake wedding cake needs to look clean. White. Flawless. And vegan buttercream just doesn't hold that kind of finish the way real butter or cream cheese does.

So I sat with it and thought — "ok, my dark chocolate trick always saves me, right?"

Wrong this time. 😅

You can't cocoa your way to a white vegan wedding cake. The exact thing that made the chocolate one easy is the exact thing that made the carrot cake impossible.

That one stung a little. I really wanted to create something for her family.

So this is the one that made it. My first ever vegan chocolate wedding cake — the one I'm holding in these photos right now. 🍰

5 years, fully self-taught, and somehow it still feels like a small milestone every time something new comes off the bench.

What do you reckon — does she look wedding-ready? 👀

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Friday night, 9pm. An order comes in for a cake needed Saturday. 😅 I say yes, because that's just how it goes.Saturday m...
15/08/2026

Friday night, 9pm. An order comes in for a cake needed Saturday. 😅 I say yes, because that's just how it goes.

Saturday morning, the count is already sitting at 17 cakes in 48 hours. 🎂🎂🎂 Six made yesterday. Ten more today. One late Friday add-on squeezed in between. And here's the part people don't realise — it's just me. 🙋‍♂️ One person, one kitchen, no team standing behind me making this happen.

Somewhere in the middle of all that, this week turned into the weirdest, most wonderful run of special requests I've had in a while:

🥕 A carrot cake (the one pictured) that's sugar-free, gluten-free AND dairy-free — made with pure olive oil only, nothing hiding in it.

🐾 Then, just minutes before writing this, a customer collected a cake that was two stories in one — a human vanilla layer on the bottom, and on top, a 100% peanut butter, carrot and egg layer... for their dog. 🐶 Two birthdays, one cake.

🌾 An erythritol carrot loaf, quietly baking away today.

🍓 A 3-layer strawberry cake that isn't even on the website — you had to know to ask.

🚫 A sulphur-dioxide-free vegan carrot cake cheesecake, because even "vegan" has layers of exceptions to work around.

🍫 And tomorrow, the one I've been looking forward to all week: a vegan dark chocolate 2-tier cake.

Summer's just switching on, and the orders are already showing it. Wouldn't trade this chaos for anything. 🔥

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This flavour combo has been quietly one of the most popular things on the menu for 2 years 😅My rule when I'm building a ...
13/08/2026

This flavour combo has been quietly one of the most popular things on the menu for 2 years 😅

My rule when I'm building a new cake: minimum 3 elements that actually earn their place — not just flavour for the sake of it. White chocolate, Biscoff, coffee. Each one pulling its own weight, none of them just sitting there for decoration 🤎

This 15cm version is what happens when I go back and test it again — see if it still holds up, still surprises me, still worth the spot on the menu ☕

Two years later… still does.

🍂 Dried orange, thyme, rosemary, edible blooms
☕ White choc + Biscoff + coffee sponge
🎂 15cm, feeds 6-8
✨ Tested, proven, still on the menu for a reason

Would you have guessed this combo before reading the ingredients? 👀

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This one doesn't need much of an introduction. 🤍Our Oreo Cheesecake — creamy vanilla cheesecake filling on a proper Oreo...
12/08/2026

This one doesn't need much of an introduction. 🤍

Our Oreo Cheesecake — creamy vanilla cheesecake filling on a proper Oreo biscuit base, finished with a dark chocolate and salted caramel topping that drips exactly the way it should.

Topped with whole Oreos, white chocolate chunks, fresh mint and edible blooms. 🌸🍫

That cross section tells the whole story. Rich, creamy, indulgent — every layer earning its place.

The kind of cake that goes quiet at the table. You know the one — where everyone stops talking and just eats. 😄

Available to order this week.

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📍 Collection from Blouberg or delivery across Cape Town 🤍

That chocolate decoration didn't come easy. 🍫For the longest time I thought chocolate shards could only be made with dar...
11/08/2026

That chocolate decoration didn't come easy. 🍫

For the longest time I thought chocolate shards could only be made with dark chocolate. And dark chocolate at R99 a bar meant I used it sparingly — almost reluctantly. It felt like a luxury decoration rather than a staple.

Then I started experimenting.

Turns out milk chocolate works just as beautifully — you just need to temper it correctly. The technique is the same. The result is just as stunning. And the cost? Significantly more sustainable for a small bakery running tight margins. 😄

I won't pretend the learning curve was smooth. There were batches that bloomed. Batches that cracked wrong. Batches that just looked... off.

But now — after enough failed attempts to have a good laugh about — I can consistently produce chocolate shards that I'm genuinely proud of. 🤍

They catch the light. They add height and drama to a cake. And they cost a fraction of what they used to.

Six years of baking teaches you that the best discoveries usually come from necessity — not creativity. Sometimes you just have to run out of the expensive option to find a better one. 😄

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📍 Blouberg, Cape Town

Small but mighty. 🤍Our mini Caramel Cheesecake — a nutty biscuit base, silky smooth caramel filling, topped with fresh g...
05/08/2026

Small but mighty. 🤍

Our mini Caramel Cheesecake — a nutty biscuit base, silky smooth caramel filling, topped with fresh guava, toasted meringue kisses, edible blooms and dark chocolate. 🍑🌸

Everything a full-sized cheesecake delivers, in a perfectly portioned individual serving.

The kind of thing that makes people reach for seconds before they've finished the first. 😄

Available to order this week.

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📍 Collection from Blouberg or delivery across Cape Town 🤍

Sometimes smaller is better. 🤍Introducing our 15cm Chocolate Cheesecake — the same rich, indulgent cheesecake you know, ...
04/08/2026

Sometimes smaller is better. 🤍

Introducing our 15cm Chocolate Cheesecake — the same rich, indulgent cheesecake you know, in a more intimate size. Perfect for a smaller gathering, a birthday for two, or honestly just because you deserve it. 😄

A dark chocolate ganache that drips exactly the way it should — topped with fresh pomegranate, dried orange, rose petals and edible blooms. 🍊🌸

Every element placed with intention. Nothing random. Nothing wasted.

Available to order this week.

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📍 Collection from Blouberg or delivery across Cape Town 🤍

These photos are about 4 years old. Still some of my favourites. 📸At 22 I decided it was time to do a proper cake shoot....
03/08/2026

These photos are about 4 years old. Still some of my favourites. 📸

At 22 I decided it was time to do a proper cake shoot. Real model, real location, real light — not just me holding a cake in my kitchen hoping for the best.

I found a model who happened to be vegan which worked perfectly because at the time I was making vegan cakes exclusively. We drove out to Durbanville, found a spot, and got to work.

I was behind the camera. Slightly out of my depth. 😄

She was in front of it. Completely in her element.

There's something that happens when someone truly comfortable in front of a lens picks up your food — it just comes alive differently. The cakes looked better than they ever had. The photos looked like they belonged in a magazine.

I paid her in cake and a lift home.

She was happy. I was happy. And those photos changed how people saw Cinnamon Club overnight.

Sometimes the best investments are the ones that cost you almost nothing but require a little courage to make happen. 🤍

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📍 Blouberg, Cape Town

This one started as a question. 🤍We already had a vegan Snickers Cheesecake that people kept coming back for. But what h...
01/08/2026

This one started as a question. 🤍

We already had a vegan Snickers Cheesecake that people kept coming back for. But what happens when you take that same idea and go full dairy, full indulgence, no compromises?

This happened. 😄

Snickers Cheesecake — creamy peanut butter filling on what is honestly one of our most-made bases in the Cinnamon Club kitchen. That base recipe has gone into more cakes than I can count at this point. Customers don't always know it but they've tasted it before — just dressed up differently each time.

This version gets a salted caramel layer, a dark chocolate topping, fresh figs, raspberries and bunny tail grass. Every element doing something different — sweet, salty, creamy, crunchy, fresh.

That cross-section doesn't lie. 🍫

What I love most about this cake is how the different elements play off each other. Nothing is random. Everything earns its place.

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📍 Blouberg, Cape Town 🤍

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8 The Courtyard Street
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