After making sweet little cupcakes for her little cutie Juma’s birthday, Sarah contacted me to make cupcakes for her son Kai’s disco themed birthday! This was a bit of a conceptual challenge. How to create cupcakes for a disco-themed party? My initial idea was to try and make a sparkly frosting dome on each cupcake […]
Animal Cuteness Cake + Cupcakes
Another great order from a cool campaign — getting people to see the light of credit unions. My older sis Shelley has always been the most financially forward-thinking of my sisters — putting away money all the time, saving, investing, etc… for years she badgered me to switch to a credit union from our soul-sucking […]
Doggone It: Dog Cupcakes Tower
What a fun order… oodles of cupcakes for the celebration opening of Jet Pet Resort, a new… yes… luxury pet hotel located in Richmond, BC! When you walk into this place it’s quite surreal… the front lobby is like a boutique hotel. Sparkling chandeliers, Juicy Couture pet-wear for sale and a plush setting. Then you […]
Pretty Palette Wedding Cupcakes
Kate was a very astute bride in her sense of design and colour! I loved working with her pretty colour palette of white, grey, green and lavender. A slew of rainy days bookended Chris and Kate’s sunny late September wedding — pretty amazing and flukey to have a small block of sun amidst days and […]
A Sweet Woodland Themed Wedding Cake
Good morning Fall. Here in Vancouver, Fall can hit rather abruptly. One minute you’re wearing sunglasses, a summer dress and flip flops walking outside enjoying the sunshine. The next day you’re cuddled up in a wool blanket and socks on the couch while the sky is grey and pittling with cold rain. Such is the […]
Baby Tanner’s 100 Day Dinner & Tiger Cupcakes!
Wowzers. My sweet and super cute new nephew Baby Tanner, also known as TanMan, or Tan Tan, or Tanner Banner, celebrated his very special 100 Day dinner here in Vancouver. Yes, he’s just a little 4 month old chubalub! He has the lightest ginger brown hair, pale alabaster skin and one double eyelid and one […]
Rugelach & Honey Cake
Nothing odd about rugelach or honey cake, but they are certainly delightful items… For Rosh Hoshanah (yes, I am Chinese) this year, we went to our dear pal Shira’s for a warm Fall dinner… I made rugelach and a moist, flavourful honey cake… the honey cake called for strong coffee (or you could use strong […]
A Few Days In The Life: Cakes + Sweetness
Pretty Pictures: Recent Cakey Times
Pretty mini pink rosette topped cupcakes. Lovely for a bridal or baby shower, or a shabby chic birthday. Hydraenga cupcake. Shadows! Lettering: “today just got better!” (still never found out why). Flags, flags, everywhere there’s flags. Mini regal and ruffly raspberry topped Berry Good cupcakes. Happy Birthday Juma! Despicable Me and 1-Up cupcake toppers, and […]
Bun Bun Fun Fun
Bunny cake! Bunny cake! Bunny cake! A 9 inch round vanilla cake with dark chocolate ganache filling for Abby’s birthday, ordered by her husband Lorne. Next time I will include a little carrot somewhere. On his face? On the side? Hmmm…
Crafty Adorable Silhoutte Wedding Cake
Sweet Abbey and cool Alex got married here in Vancouver… and Coco Cake was lucky to be a part of the celebration! Abbey sent me the adorable handmade invite she made for her wedding… and asked if I could make a cake around that design. The design featured a silhouette of the two of them, […]
Steak Anyone? Steak Cake!
Oh man. Doing fake food cakes is probably one of my top favourite types of cakes to make. I just think it’s so hilarious for some reason. Remember last year when I made this fish cake with a sad face? This year Adele asked me to create a steak cake instead! I made two large […]
Calgary Cousins Wedding Cupcake Cuteness!
Man I’m lucky I have cool in-laws. The Trawicks are prettty prettty sweet, although they are the first to self-deprecate themselves! Not only did I marry an awesome fellow, but in tow came his great immediate family, his extended family, and crazy-town cousins (one of whom happens to also be one of my best buds). […]
Four Party Animals Straight From The Street. Sesame Street.
Heehee! I loved how these Coco Cake created nutbars turned out. As I handcut each little fondant eyeball and made the beaks and such for Big Bird and piped all their different types and colours of hairiness, in assembling them, I just couldn’t help but make little conversations up between them all. And of course […]
Maple Ice Cream With Candied Walnuts
I’m a nut for nuts. I’m so happy I’m not allergic to nuts. I think Mr.Peanut is hilarious, I can eat peanut butter with a spoon. And walnuts are the healthy brainfood nut. I also love maple syrup – so maple ice cream with candied walnuts = cool cool idea. I’ve decided to start a […]
An Apple A Day: Apple Wedding Cupcakes
Olivia and I began our Coco Cake cupcake conversation over her wedding day way back in November… and I found her to be so sweet, kind and full of cute ideas. She really wanted to do something cute and different for wedding cupcakes… but wasn’t quite sure where to go with it. We talked about […]
