Curious Cat Bakery Blog

Curious Cat Bakery wins Best of the Bay Award

The Curious Cat Bakery won the "Best Bakery Boss Up" award for 2020's Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Awards. The award recognized bakery owner's Natalia Lima's successful efforts to... Read more...

New Flavor Release: Vegan Biscoff Cupcakes and Cookie Butter Brownies

Introducing the newest vegan flavors at the Curious Cat Bakery: Vegan Biscoff Cookie Cupcakes chocolate cupcakes with a Biscoff frosting, melted cookie butter drizzle and topped with a Lotus... Read more...

My favorite custom cake to date

You know the expression "how the sausage gets made"? Well, "how the cake gets made" is a much more pleasant story and that's the one I'm sharing today. A few... Read more...

Making Alice in Wonderland Desserts

For as long as I can remember, I've loved Alice in Wonderland. It started with the Disney movie — the scene with the flowers was always my favorite — and... Read more...

Behind the Scenes at the Bakery: August Summary

August was a super busy month at the Curious Cat Bakery. From pop ups to new flavors, a lot happened and I thought a quick round up in case you... Read more...

Oddly Satisfying Moment: Relaxing Cupcake Decorating

Ok, this might seem weird but I'm just going to say it: watching people decorate cakes is super relaxing to me. Am I the only one who thinks this? I... Read more...

There's definitely crying in baking

It was 5:30 am on Sunday morning and I was in the bathroom, sitting on the floor crying. Not my brightest moment, I must admit, but I want to share... Read more...

Hosting a Harry Potter Themed Pop Up

This should come as a secret to absolutely no one but I'm a huge Harry Potter dork! So for Harry Potter's birthday I decided to partner with a local bookshop... Read more...

Making Disney Inspired Desserts

It's no secret that I'm a Harry Potter dork but what I'm an even bigger dork over is Disney. Main Street USA is my happy place. If I'm having a... Read more...

Celebrating National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day

These days there are very few things we can all agree one. But that chocolate chip cookies are delicious might be one of them. They're so simple and yet so satisfying.... Read more...

Making a Folklore Cake inspired by TSwift's album

So Folklore might just be playing on repeat in my headphones as I type this. Actually, scratch the "might". It totally is. And because I'm a baker of course my... Read more...

Veganizing Candace Nelson's Skillet Cookie

Have you ever craved something after seeing it somewhere? That's what happened to me recently after I saw 2 of my favorite people to follow online — Candace Nelson and... Read more...