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Chatelaine celebrates, inspires, informs and empowers. We know that Canadian women contain multitudes, and we cover all of the issues—big and small—that matter to them, from climate change to caregiving, Canadian fashion and what to cook now.

Latest from Chatelaine

After More Than A Decade In A Wheelchair, I Taught Myself To Walk Again
Living

After More Than A Decade In A Wheelchair, I Taught Myself To Walk Again

At 67, I’m re-learning how to walk. It’s different than when I was a child, and I’ve never been so grateful to move in my entire life.
11 minutes
5 Classic White T-Shirts Our Editors Can't Stop Wearing
Fashion

5 Classic White T-Shirts Our Editors Can't Stop Wearing

They're anything but basic.
2 minutes
11 Of Our Best Cake Recipes To Celebrate Our 95th Anniversary
Food

11 Of Our Best Cake Recipes To Celebrate Our 95th Anniversary

We dug through hundreds of issues to find recipes from every era of this magazine and asked local cake designers to interpret them in their own style. The end result? A very celebratory spread.
Decadent Nanaimo Cake
Total 100 min
Recipes

Decadent Nanaimo Cake

The beloved bar becomes a sheet cake! We take the recipe—first published in the 1980s—up a notch with decadent adornment.
Total 100 min
Lemon Blast Bombe
Total 120 min
Recipes

Lemon Blast Bombe

Sliced jelly rolls make this refrigerator cake from the 2000s truly whimsical.
Total 120 min
Lemon Poppy Seed Layer Cake
Total 135 min
Recipes

Lemon Poppy Seed Layer Cake

Camilla Wynne developed this recipe, published in 2022, as a go-to when making wedding cakes for friends. Here, she’s gone all out with piped frosting for an extra-celebratory effect.
Total 135 min
Colleen Angel Cake
Total 135 min
Recipes

Colleen Angel Cake

This fluffy confection was the first cake recipe we ever published in the 1920s, as part of a St. Patrick’s Day menu. We added balled fruit to brighten it up.
Total 135 min
Orange Cream Cake
Total 180 min
Recipes

Orange Cream Cake

Originally developed as a two-layer snacking cake, this dessert would have been a rare treat for cash-strapped bakers in the 1930s.
Total 180 min
Tomato Soup Cupcakes
Total 80 min
Recipes

Tomato Soup Cupcakes

A post-war hack of using canned soup to flavour tea loaf became a baking craze in the ’40s and ’50s. We swapped the loaf tin for cupcakes.
Total 80 min
Baked Alaska
Total 60 min
Recipes

Baked Alaska

As impressive to serve at a party today as it was in the 1950s, this retro dessert is deceptively easy to pull off.
Total 60 min
Creme Châtelaine
Total 200 min
Recipes

Creme Châtelaine

This frosty take on zabaglione cake was developed for the magazine in the 1960s by Graham Kerr, whose cooking show, The Galloping Gourmet, was a global hit at the time.
Total 200 min
Grand Marnier Chocolate Torte
Total 130 min
Recipes

Grand Marnier Chocolate Torte

Readers requested this citrusy layered cake recipe from the 1970s so often that we reprinted it in 2000. Now we’re doing so again—with a little ’70s swagger in the decoration.
Total 130 min
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