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Uzo Orimalade

Uzo Orimalade is the head baker at Cupcake Couture – a boutique bakery and creative director of Uzo’s Food Labs – a culinary studio. She also hosts Friday Food on The Spot on EbonyLifeTV. When she isn’t in her food lab, her head is almost always buried in a book. Visit her blog: http://uzosfoodlabs.blogspot.com

Sweet Spot 6 years ago

BN Cuisine with Uzo’s Food Labs: Taste the Sweetness of Lemon-Flavoured Churros

There is something about fried dough that makes people happy. Think puff puff and doughnuts. It might not be calorie friendly, but life is too short...
Features 9 years ago

BN Cuisine with Uzo’s Food Labs: Sweet Potato Muffins

I say Potato, You say Petatoes, We say Poraros – Sweet Potato Muffins. With all the advances in technology today, I still cannot believe it is impossible...
Features 9 years ago

BN Cuisine with Uzo’s Food Lab: Something’s Popping – Cocoa Popcorn

I read Sodas & Popcorn’s review of the 10 best summer movies of 2014 on Bella Naija and I was devastated. I was devastated because I...
Features 10 years ago

BN Cuisine with Uzo’s Food Labs: Naija Eats, The Fine Dining Edition | Super Indulgent Puff Puff

How do you feel when you go to an event and get a plate of small chops and there is no puff-puff on it? Well I...
Features 10 years ago

BN Cuisine with Uzo’s Food Labs: For the Love of Coconut

My last post on the Akara cheeseburger and Akamu smoothie generated a few comments about coconut milk. {Catch up here} One lovely reader mentioned that she...
Features 10 years ago

BN Cuisine with Uzo’s Food Labs: A Twist on Akara & Akamu

I have a friend who is pescatarian. It’s essentially being a vegetarian that can eat fish. In her case, she only eats some kinds of fish...
Features 10 years ago

BN Cuisine with Uzo’s Food Labs: Naughty Mango Bread

There is no doubt that it is mango season. Everywhere I turn, I see mangoes. In the markets, in supermarkets, in wheel barrows pushed around by...
Events 13 years ago

BN Exclusive: Read our BN Reader Review & Experience Spectacular Photos from “FELA!” in Lagos

BellaNaija.com was on the scene at the “FELA!” in Lagos event. The Broadway export captured the imagination of Lagosians and all Fela fans who grabbed the...
Features 15 years ago

Complexion Obsession

A few weeks ago, I attended a wedding. One of the huge weddings that had me saying hi to my friends, my husband’s friends, relatives on...