My grandma celebrated her 91st birthday on September 14th. Ninety one years old, guys. Can you imagine living that long? My grandma, who we call Poh-poh, was born and raised here in Vancouver, BC – born in a house just a few blocks from where I live now. Poh-poh was the one who gave me […]
Cookie Problems: Peanut Butter Milk Chocolate Cookies
I got 99 problems and a cookie is one. Cookie problems! Guys, does anyone else have major devouring issues when it comes to peanut butter and chocolate as a combination? A few weeks ago I was craving PB+C so bad that I put one spoon of peanut butter in my mouth, crammed in some chocolate chips […]
Dip Dye Cupcake DIY
I made the cutest little simple and easy dip dye cupcake DIY over at Poppytalk today. Click on over to Poppytalk now for the whole tutorial. It’s simple as pie, guys, and colour-block cute to boot. Happy Wednesday, cake pals! xo Lyndsay
Coco Cake Land, Lately – Instagram Roundup
Hello, Mister guitar playing fox! Custom hand drawn topper I made for my dear friend Miko’s daughter Saya’s birthday … based on a favourite cute book of hers! A raspberry buttercream ruffly cute cake I made for my Poh-poh’s 91st birthday. Yes, my grandma is 91 years old. She told me this birthday would be […]
Banana Party, Part 2: Banana Milk Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe
How cute was that banana garland from a coupla days ago? Well clearly you need the cupcakes recipe to go with it, to send your banana party into the stratosphere! My one year old is banana-crazy… he gnaws away at bananas until it’s a mush in his hands. Then he reaches for me to pick […]
Banana Party – Banana Garland DIY
BANANA GARLAND DIY How cool was I when I was 19. Real cool. So original with my Velvet Underground and Nico Andy Warhol poster hanging in my room. I remember first hearing a Velvet Underground song, I was 17 and driving in my new university city and listening to the college radio station. Nico’s voice […]
Neon Striped Cupcakes Tutorial
Zinnnng! I just zapped you with outrageous neon colours. No, I didn’t. But I did create these neon striped cupcakes for you. They are cute and not really that outrageous at all. If I had piled on neon buttercream and a bunch of neon fondant doo-nads on top of each one and then dipped the […]
Cookie Problems: Kitchen Sink Cookies + Contest Winner!
So here we have some good old Kitchen Sink Cookies. It’s when you have a cookie problem craving that just won’t quit, and you simply MUST make cookies with whatever random ingredients you have in stock. Chocolatey, crunchy, caramel-y, toffee-y. Sprinkles, even. Go for it. Raisins from 2010? Jam ’em. Toffee bits you bought on […]
Dog Cake Topper DIY
Doggone it, you didn’t even know you wanted to make a dog faced cake topper, did ya? Remember Teddy’s doggy themed 1st birthday party? I made a cute little easy-as-dog-biscuits DIY on how to make the dog faced cake toppers over at one of my fave blogs You Are My Fave. Blast on over to […]
Horse Ribbon Cupcake Liner Garland DIY – Giddy Up!
Yee-haw! I’m so excited to announce I’m a new contributor to the super sweet blog Julep, part of the design siteย Minted.com. I love their DIYs and inspiration and am so thrilled to share this horse ribbon garland made from good old cupcake liners with you! Gallop (oh dear!) on over to Julep right now for […]
Back To School Apple Cupcakes Tutorial
Can you even believe it? September is upon us. It happens every year (um, Lyndsay? Duh!) but what I mean is, you’re stone cold cruising summer’s sunny fun times, August is rolling along, hot as can be, and then suddenly BLAMMO you get a stint of cooler weather and you go, “no. It just can’t […]
Dreaming of you – Cake Life via Instagram
We just came back from a sleepy dreamy week in the mountains at our family’s 1971 cabin. I took Teddy swimming in a green lake (where he mostly tried to put rocks in his mouth) and we stood and cheered on some very muscular and fit superhumans as they ran the Ironman! Holy man, those […]
More 5 Year Blog Anniversary Cake Madness + Thank you
Have you entered my super sweetย CAKE GIVEAWAY / RANDOM FUN PARTY IN A BOXย giveaway yet? Clickย here to read all about it!ย Do it – enter! It’s been a blast reading the entries so far and getting to know some of my readers! While I force you to look at even more favourite cakes from the old […]
Coco Cake Land Blog Anniversary + A Sweet Giveaway!
Holy guacamole. Holy smokes. Holy shnikey and whatever else holy you want to call it.. I can’t believe I’ve been blogging for five years! And I also can’t believe the cuteness of the fact that the date in which I started my baby, this here Coco Cake Land blog, on August 20th 2008, and then […]
Tea & Roses: Ultra Simple Rosette Cupcake Photo Tutorial
The key to the beautiful buttercream rosette? Take your classic 1M piping tip. Start piping in the middle and pipe outward – I go counter-clockwise. Practice this over and over and before long you will be the master rosette piper. And I will call you that, too. How do you do, Master Rosette Pipah! So […]
My Teddy’s First Birthday Party! Dog Themed Party!
I’ve been dreaming about Teddy’s 1st birthday party, oh, since probably the week he was born! Maybe even before he was born? Not in a psycho hose beast way… just in the way in which I love dreaming of ideas and parties… I remember just wondering so much who this little boy would be… while […]
