Best post title EVER, amiright? Donuts macarons and drugs. (These pretty and perfect macarons are from Soirette.) No, I’m not much of a drug user of that kind – well unless you count the “medical marijuana hazelnut chocolate coin” I took a bite out of during a particularly awful and nauseous post-chemotheraphy day. To say that […]
Cute and Loosely Super Mario Kart Cupcakes + Flashback To My First Fondant Cake
The days are long but the years are fast… isn’t that what they say about having kids? My little Teddy is growing up so fast. I think it’s a pain in every mother’s heart to watch it all go by so quickly, yet still so painfully, fatigue-inducingly slow. I remember when my sweet nephew Brody […]
The Toof About Teeth: Tooth, Watermelon + Banana Sugar Cookies and Blog Friends
I’ve got deep sugar cookie piping and decorating fever right now, guys. I blame Vickie, Baked Ideas and Holly Fox for getting me all hyped on the cuteness and also ENDLESS COMEDY POSSIBILITIES that are sugar cookies. Watermelon slices, bananas with faces and a big old goofy TOOTH? Yes. Yes you can. I will […]
Spelt Banana Buttermilk Bundt Cake Recipe (with Chocolate Chips)
Bundt first, cake – what a FIST-PUMPING moment of triumph it is when your bundt cake un-moulds itself without sticking to the pan like a bastard from hell! I remember my earliest days of cake making and not “greasing” the pans. Terrible amateur mistake, one that could turn a person off of baking for years. […]
Donuts, Cupcakes and Cherry Bombe Magazine
Hands up if you dislike the word “blogger.” When you say you’re a blogger as your profession, there’s inside-eye-rolls and thoughts of “that’s not a real job.” Even I can’t take it seriously in my mind and I’ve been blogging since 2008. Of course I used to have a cake business attached to it, but […]
Mom’s Pink Birthday Cake + Star Wars??
We all gathered for Chinese food for my mom’s 71st birthday last week at New Town Bakery, where the bau sits nestled and warm in huge steamers, the staff run around in bright orange shirts (that matches the decor) and the jook runs freely, piping hot. You can peek into the kitchen to see […]
Cheers To Life: Maui + 1 Year Since Cancer Diagnosis
One year ago I was standing in the kitchen, probably dinking around on my Instagram, maybe power-snacking on some leftover Christmas chocolate, when I got the phone call from my family doctor. The same wonderful doctor who delivered Teddy – I can still hear her counting down from 10 when it was time to push […]
Chocolate Nutella Cake + 2016 + Yahoo Food’s Blogger Of The Year!!!
2016, the year we start teleporting through magic screens and Jetson around the skies on interplanetary highways and robots pretty much rule the earth. 2016, the year in which life continues to resume. Flashback to last week, Christmas holidays: Christmas casual at my mother-in-law’s place in Victoria for the holidays, her place is so cozy […]
Happy Birthday Dad! Mint Malt Ball Chocolate Buttercream Drippy Cake
Is everyone eating kale already? Or are we still cool to push “holiday weight gain 2015” to a deeper level?? How about we think about chocolate a little with this mint malt ball topped chocolate buttercream drippy cake? I made this jumbotron chocolate beast for my wonderful dad’s birthday. Let me give you a taste […]
Unicorn Gingerbread House!
Party like a unicorn! What would a unicorn party look like? Rainbow milkshakes, piles of perfect pastel meringues, a BONKERS UNICORN CAKE in its unicorn likeness … because everyone likes to eat something that looks like themselves, it’s fun, it’s frolicky, it’s cannibal-y … Yep. Today we have a casual times gingerbread A-frame house. I’ve […]
Gingerbread Miffy Cookies + “Donut” Cookies With Lemon Icing
Miffy cookies! So cute, so freaking SIMPLE. Instead of gingerbread men and candy cane shapes, go Miffy! I got these Miffy cutters from Etsy last year and finally used them. I think they’re meant for bento box magic but they make easy breezy cookie cutters. You will also need piping bags and piping tips for this project! […]
Ballad Of The Royal Icing Sugar Cookie
You know when you glomp onto a new idea and you just want to learn everything about it and try to figure out what it’s all about, hokey pokey style? In October I got mildly obsessed with royal icing sugar cookies. I’ve made these horridly time consuming things before. But this time – I turned […]
National Cake Day Candy Cake!
Every day is national cake day in Coco Cake Land!??? Could you imagine. I don’t think I could actually handle a world that looked and felt like rainbow unicorn candy cake land every single DAY. Some days you need to mope and cry and feel pain to evolve and grow. Then other days you need […]
Drip, Drip: My Birthday Chocolate Peanut Butter and Jam Cake Recipe!
Is it weird that I started making my own birthday cake every year? Is it anal and control-freaky? Should I release the cake reigns? Nahhhhh. From my rainbow cat birthday cake to last year’s epically delicious cake, I actually really enjoy making them – spending time on my own dinking around in the kitchen on […]
Birthdays and Purple Party Cakes
In our rainy neck of the woods, November is a dark month. Daylight evaporates by 5pm and when the air isn’t chilly buns cold, we are pelted with rain which sometimes feels as though it may never end. While Vancouver is postcard-beautiful (from the outside, anyway) on a sun filled day, the constant wet weather […]
My Neighbor Totoro Cake Tutorial !
Have you seen My Neighbor Totoro? Equal parts super cute, creepy and weepy-making, it’s a Japanese animation starring two little sisters who get swept up in a sweetly kooky fantasy world as they cope with their mother’s illness. The star of the beloved film is a big, puffy, furry and grey magical creature, Totoro! So […]
