Roar! This little cutie might just be the easiest animal cake you’ll ever make, not to mention the cutest. Check out the full lion cake DIY over at one of my favourite children’s blogs, Handmade Charlotte!
Currantly Crushing On: Red Currant Popsicles Recipe
Tart, tangy and milky red currant popsicles! Teddy got a lesson in exchange for goods at the Vancouver Farmers Market a few weekends ago. We were weighing a brown bag of English snap peas and then a glistening pile of teensy red globes dangling from thin delicate stems caught my eye – red currants! They […]
Put It In Your Bag + Pipe It: How To Make A Ruffle Cake
The ruffle cake refuses to lie down and die. The reason? It’s WAY TOO CUTE and easy to do, too!
Naut Too Shabby: Octonauts Cakes!
These little duder Octonauts cakes were SO fun to make! I made them for a brother and sister team – a little guy named Weston who just turned 4 years old with a gluten intolerance, so yes these vanilla and chocolate cake cuties are also gluten-free! His mom L emailed me with this, hoping I’d […]
Sweet Type: Ice Cream Cake + Stamped Letter Cake Topper DIY
Make the cutest triple layer vintage-look ice cream cake and top it with letter cake toppers! Recipe + DIY by Coco Cake Land
Earl Grey Milky Tea Popsicles With Grass Jelly Recipe
It’s POPSICLE WEEK! To celebrate this momentous week of frozen delights, I’ve made earl grey milky tea popsicles with grass jelly bits. Guys, you know I like my bits. Bits add texture and interest and sometimes downright FUN – I’m talking bubble tea pearls, crunchy nuts, chocolate chips, sprinkles, crumbs and yes, grass jelly. Grass jelly […]
Sweet Type: Pink Ruffle Birthday Cake For Miko!
My dear friend Miko celebrated a milestone birthday this month – 40! (but she looks 30 – Asian genes! SWEET!) Tough to get cooler than Miko. A musician, artist, mother, feminist and small business owner, she’s what all the youngies hope to become. She’s like a Japanese Canadian Kim Gordon. Age is such a strange phenomenon, especially […]
Confetti Dots! Cake Decorating With Sprinkles
A pink cake, sprinkle-coated polkadots, chocolate in the middle? Learn how to make the cutest confetti dots!
Haupia Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
Haupia chocolate cream pie. It’s as if a little cloud from heaven dropped into your lap, a billowy white fluff cloud of cold sugared cream, coconut milk creamy filling and chocolate ganache. I made this pie for Father’s Day (along with spam musubi!) for my beloved dad, who loves Hawaii so much! I tried to […]
How To Make Spam Musubi
I know this seems like it’s blasting out of left field. No, spam musubi is not a cake or a dessert of any kind – in fact, it’s a slice of canned pork, pan fried and caramelized in its own fat and laid on top of a rectangular shaped rice block, wrapped in seaweed! It’s […]
Host A Donut Decorating Party!
Party like it’s 2014! How cute is the shape of a donut?? Circular, puffy, dripping with pretty crystallized glaze and covered in sprinkles – I could never resist. Host a donut decorating party with a few easy steps!
Life Is Rad: Wedding Cakes For Scott + Natalie!
Love is a beautiful thing. I’m not just talking husband and wife love. I’m talking family love, friendship love. The love of a chocolate eclair. Wife and wife love, and husband and husband love. The love of your children, your pets. Your record collection, and the love of a tart and icy frozen yogurt. The […]
Milk Tea Donuts Recipe!
Milk Tea Donuts Recipe Before we get to the milk tea donuts recipe, allow me to share this life tidbit. Little known and possibly embarrassing fact: when I was 18, I worked for one summer at a muffin stand in the mall. Marvelous Muffins, in fact. To this day my sisters still make fun of […]
Sweet Tips: How To Frost A Cake
I want to blast you back through memory lane for a just a minute. Thirteen years ago, in fact. I had just met my now-husband RT. He was a tall, cool drink of vegan water. I was a short haired, glasses-wearing aspiring music writer/feminist. I was so nervous to eat anything meaty around him I […]
Courtesan Au Chocolat Recipe
Courtesan au chocolat – so what the heck are these cartoonish looking stacks?! Tall, whimsical towers of chocolate ganache-filled choux pastry dunked in the prettiest pastel glazes – I felt like a little kid creating a fantasy land of candy coloured cream puff castles. Biting into the pastry, the sugary vanilla glazed puff was airy and crisp yet it collapsed like a light, chocolate-filled cloud in my mouth.
Milky Vietnamese Coffee Popsicles Recipe
Milky creamy delicious Vietnamese coffee popsicles! I am addicted to sweetened condensed milk. So caramel-y and creamy! Whenever I think of iced coffee I think of the perfectly zinger-inducing version at Phnom Penh (the very raddest Vietnamese Cambodian restaurant here in Vancouver) – dark roast coffee dripping down on top of sweetened condensed milk and ice cubes. […]
