For my BFF Amy’s birthday, she dropped a hint a few months ago that she was dying to try these pistachio rosewater vegan cupcakes from the great book Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World. My hubby was a vegan for four years… until he met meeeee, of course! He always tells this story of how […]
Olympics Cupcakes
Cutest Olympics cupcakes! I made these using various colours of fondant and PIPING TIPS as circle cutters. Easy and fun albeit a little time consuming, hehe. Andrea emailed me with the request to make some celebratory Olympics themed cupcakes for her dad, who was running a leg of the Olympic torch run on Quadra Island! […]
Howdy, Pumpkin! Pumpkin Halloween Cupcakes
You didn’t think old Coco Cake had forgotten about Halloween, did you? Lookit these cute little orange sugar sprinkle-dipped pumpkin cupcakes! Delightful, rich dark chocolate cupcakes with generous blobs of orange tinted vanilla buttercream dipped in orange sparkly sprinkles and topped with Lindt chocolate stems or funny chocolate faces and green sugar fondant leaves. Michael […]
Owl & The Pussycat Wedding Cake!
Morgan and Brittany had their wedding reception at the Planetarium here in Vancouver. How cool is that?? Live space synthesizer music by the one and only Jeremy Schmidt, and a lovely spread of Indian food– a super wedding. Brittany had this great book she loved while growing up, The Owl & The Pussycat– and wanted […]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake Returns!
Well the crazy hungry caterpillar cake is back and ready to party it up once again for little Freya’s 1st birthday! I have had many requests for this little nutter and was happy to make it again for baby Freya. I tried to vary my little caterpillar buddy a bit without straying too far from […]
Kensie’s 100 Day Chinese Banquet!
Did you know I am a fourth generation Chinese Canadian? My grandma (Poh poh) even grew up only a few blocks from where I live now in Vancouver! Pretttty cool. Even though my family has been in Canada for generations, we of course still do some Chinesey/superstitious-y things. For my niece Kensie, my parents threw […]
Sweet Little Bird Cupcakes & Matching Cake
A matchy-matchy birthday of pinky red little birdies, a super cute colour theme of green, red and brown… for sweet and adorable Olivia’s 1st birthday bash! Definitely one of my recent fave Coco Cake creations for sure. Dark brown cupcake liners, tree branches, green leaves and the little pink birdies! Vanilla cupcakes and a dark […]
Moby Dick And Lobster Buddy Cupcakes!!
Oh this blue whale cake and matching red lobster cupcakes turned out soooo cute… I was so happy with them!! The blue whale is a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream, and the cupcakes are buttermilk vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream… !! My good friend Cindy Mochizuki, a truly excellent Vancouver artist working in multimedia projects […]
Where The Wild Things Are Cake for Vancouver Advance Screening!
Well allllllright! Remember this crazy cake I made all the way back in March for the lovely Lisa’s birthday? Ever since hype for the Where The Wild Things Are movie started trickling out, the Moishe cake I designed based on Maurice Sendak’s awesome artwork has been ripping around Internet Town with lots of super nice […]
Black Forest Cartoony Cupcakes
They don’t look too foreboding and black foresty though, do they? They kind of look like Pink Forest cupcakes! I love how cartoonish these turned out; half with pink buttercream blobettes (I keep using that word but it’s the best thing I can think of to describe the frosting shape!), half of them dipped in […]
Clown Fish Power: Finding Nemo Cupcakes
I usually don’t like to do Disney or typical cartoon stuff– there are people who do it much better than I, and I prefer to do more vintage-look or strange or different cute stuff. Cause there’s a million Finding Nemo stuffies and tshirts and yadda yadda all that… But I gotta admit, this little dude’s […]
Coco Cake’s Pizza Party Cake! Fo Real!
Zing!! How cool would it be to work at a great local Vancouver design/marketing/programming firm, and get treated to WICKED AWESOME things for your birthday? Man. That’s boosting staff morale. I approve, hard. The amazing Engine Digital in Vancouver ordered a hee-larious cake for one of their staff members… a PIZZA CAKE. You may remember […]
Octonauts Themed Birthday For Dakota!
Do you know the brilliant illustrators of Meomi? They make the cutest characters, including these soon to be even more famous ones. Monice phoned me a few months ago to request very special themed cupcakes for her daughter Dakota’s birthday, Octonauts themed! The Octonauts are a creation of Meomi, and there are storybooks featuring some […]
Welcome To The Saanich Fair!
Rich admiring a very decadent pair of fur pants Pickle on a stick! I ate this. Guilty. Bratwurst. Me and Candyland! Did you know soft serve ice cream is like my most favourite thing?? Saanich Fair Kid’s Cake Decorating Competition! Saanich is in Victoria BC, which is on Vancouver Island. There are lots of farms […]
Party! Panda Party!
My friend Helen sent me this hilarious link to the game “Pizza Party”. Doesn’t that look like the worst game ever? So boring!!! What a catchy song can do for marketing, I tell ya… but admittedly a pizza party is my favourite kind of party because I loooove pizza! Gorgeous and vibrant Rita had her […]
Allergic To Fish Fish Cake!
Super cute Adele from Dace (incidentally one of my favorite Vancouver clothing brands) ordered a hilarious cake for her boyfriend Ryan’s birthday bash: a fish cake on a platter complete with lettuce and tomatoes, as Ryan is very allergic to the real thing! This fish cake stressed me out beyond mental reason– I think I […]
