Make cupcakes for your holiday party this year! Update the classic Christmas colours with a party blaster of light pink, a fresh raspberry for contrast and green cupcake liners. Totally cute, totally party time and a nice modern feel. Find me elsewhere this week: Check out my post I wrote for Craftsy on how a […]
Melted Snowman Cake DIY
This guy! I love this melted snowman face. I was pretty much chuckling away while I was making this. I’ve seen this idea on sugar cookies before but hadn’t yet seen it on a cake. Poor dude. Get the full tutorial for this DIY melted snowman cake over at Handmade Charlotte. I would be so […]
Happy Halloween! Halloween Cake Round-up
Cute Dracula cake DIY! Mutant bunny cake DIY for Handmade Charlotte! Scaredy cat cake toppers for Poppytalk! Paper plate animal mask DIY for Shop Sweet Lulu! Mellow mushroom cupcake toppers for Handmade Charlotte Mini monster eyeball cupcakes – full DIY on Craftsy.com! Lots of fun Halloween cakey times came out of Coco Cake Land this […]
Mini Monster Eyeball Cupcakes DIY
Countdown to Halloween is totally on! For simple and cute cupcakes to bring to work or school on Halloween day, you can slam together these hairy eyeball cupcakes in no time flat! You’ll need some colourful cupcake liners (I used orange) and a piping bag fitted with a multi-opening tip and filled with a bright […]
Halloween Cake: Mutant Bunny Cake DIY
Oooh I made this hilariously deviously cute Halloween themed cake DIY for Handmade Charlotte! Mutant bunny cake! This will jazz up your Halloween table big time, guys. Let me know if you try it! Full tutorial over on my mutant bunny cake DIY post at Handmade Charlotte. xo Lyndsay
How To Ice A Cupcake – 6 Designs
An icing style is like a hairstyle – ponytail, perm, straight, bangs, short cut, undercut, mohawk! Here are six different ways to instantly style and change up your cupcake frosting! The full tutorial is over on my post at Craftsy! What’s your favourite way to ice a cupcake? Find Coco Cake Land elsewhere this week: My post […]
Coco Cake Land via Instagram – Baking Galore + Alt For Everyone
What an awesome week. I feel jam-slammed busy these days but still it’s fun to be jumping from food-flying kid play dates to baking up a storm in the kitchen to styling cake photos to my kid’s music class to editing and writing… this week was extra sweet because Alt For Everyone happened! Alt For […]
Cotton Candy Cake Tutorial
Does anyone else love thin as air, wisps of nothing spun sugar cotton candy? Pale pink sugar threads fluffing and puffing up like a beehive wig, melting into your tongue like magic. We took Teddy to our city’s annual fair this past summer and I felt inspired by the cotton candy sticks in pale bubblegum pink […]
Raspberry Buttercream Cake
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 […]
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 – 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 […]
More 5 Year Blog Anniversary Cake Madness + Thank you
Have you entered my super sweet CAKE GIVEAWAY / RANDOM FUN PARTY IN A BOX giveaway yet? Click here to read all about it! 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 […]
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 […]
Dog Cakes!
Dog cakes! So many pups to model in buttercream and so little time. If you’ve been following my blog for a while you might know I’m wild about make dog cakes. Something about those ridiculously cute little FACES that look so cartoonish and cute in buttercream or fondant! Maybe I’ve got dogs on the brain […]
Pink Buttercream Rosette Wedding Cake
I received a lovely email a few months ago from Sandra, a follower and fan of Coco Cake Land since she saw these moustache cupcakes … she had recently moved to Vancouver from Portugal by way of the U.K. She wanted to know if I could make her very special wedding cake, for a “pocket sized” […]
