About Behnaz Behnaz is the owner and the principal baker and decorator at Joconde Cakes & Sweets. After Studying Law and Criminology, she took a leap of faith into the culinary world and switched her career path. She has graduated from both Culinary And Pastry Arts programs in Vancouver.

Joconde is nutty and rich but still light as a sponge cake should be. It provides the perfect base for layered cakes like the opera cake. The name comes from Da Vinci's Italian model for the Mona Lisa—Lisa del Giocondo, which translates in French to Joconde.