Give peace to my body. Give peace a chance – flower cone power. A peace offering. This is my face. Skeptical guy. Totoro cookie like a magic eightball. This was me one week after my second round of chemo. The sun was out, Spring was calling outside. We decided to walk around the block, take […]
Floating Along
The days are really blurring together. My mind is but a facsimile of what it once was – I reminisce about my old brain. A friend emailed me asking me if chemo brain was anything like mama brain – she is a new expectant mom – and I thought, shite, no. For me, mama brain […]
Sugar Crush: The Colour Blast Photo World Of Stephanie Gonot
I’m late to the Stephanie Gonot party as usual but darn it look at this hilariousness. I can seriously feel the toenail in my mouth, parsing it out with my tongue through gobs of thick oil-based whipped icing. Her Insult Cakes project with Max Siedentopf gave me such a chuckle – upending our forever-sweet memories […]
Pretty Perfect: Milk Bar Life Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
COOOOKIES. I’m not blue and fuzzy nor am I a total maniacal pig monster but if you get me close to a pile of fresh-out-the-oven perfect chocolate chip cookies, I really do tend to tornado-devour ’em. I can’t stop. It’s been a lifelong search for the superior chocolate chip cookie recipe. Crucial requirements: non cakey, […]
Sweetapolita Circus Animal Cookie Recipe!
If blog years were like dog years, I’d be an old lady blogger woofin’ away like a crotchety ancient pup. I’ve been blogging since 2008 – which seems like a century ago! But back in the early days, I met some pretty sweet (hehe) people online – including the one and only, frostingly gorgeous, ruler […]
Donut Deny: Donut Sugar Cookies Are CUTE
I forgot how to use my camera. I couldn’t find my mixing bowl. Did I even HAVE butter? Baking is my language and I stopped using it so I forgot how to speak. Goo goo gah gah? Where my mixing bowl at? Sprinkles, be damned – why are you buried under cereal and leftover maltballs […]
Cheetah Cake Cuteness + Children
Meow mix! I made this buttercream cheetah cake for a sweet little girl named Shyloh, at her request of course. Man do I love kids. I’ve always thought they are hilarious. But maybe I actually love people at every age. The elderly fascinate me with their decades of stories, memory and history locked behind years […]
My Mom’s 70th Birthday High Tea Party
This is a belated post. This happened back in January but … if you are a reader of my blog you know that I’ve had a few things goin’ on lately! I LOVE going for high tea and so does my mom. Not that kind of high tea, guys. High as in… British! Fancy! Royal! […]
Still Coco Cake
Kinda like “Still Dre” but with more cake – I am still me. I am still here. While it’s true that I have not had the energy or desire to bake in the last six weeks, I still think about it. I’m so used to shopping weekly for blocks and blocks of rectangular pounds of […]
In Memory Of My Poh Poh
I lost my beloved grandmother on Monday – she passed away peacefully, quietly, in her hospital bed, with my mom and dad by her side. She was 92.5 years old – sooo close to 100, poh poh! I would joke with her about reaching 100. “Come on, poh poh! Only 8 more years!” and she’d […]
Disneyland and some personal news
Hello my dear friends. I wanted to tell you something – come out of the closet with some personal news. In January of this year I was diagnosed with breast cancer in my right breast – something called invasive ductal carcinoma. I’ll be having surgery this coming Monday February 23rd to remove a large part […]
How To Make A Paper Cake Topper DIY
Feeling the need to spruce up a cake? Sometimes an adorable and SIMPLE little addition like this paper cake topper can add some serious JAZZ HANDS to your sweets. Find the whole sweet ‘n easy breezy tutorial over on my Add Extra Craft To Your Cakes With A Paper Cake Topper DIY post for Craftsy!ย […]
Tips I Learned By Deep Googling And Crying For Help: How To Make Macarons
I know I’m brutally late to the macaron party. I’ve been aware of their adorable little meringue hamburger-like presence, and have eaten many over the years, and made a few ugly batches right around 2008 when I was nose-deep into my Martha Stewart Baking Handbook. But out of the blue, I got obsessed with these […]
Stressballs 2015 + Peppermint Chocolate Cake
Yep. Everyone wants to be looking at a super rich, dark drippy thick chocolate peppermint buttercream cake right now. December holiday weight gain, I laugh in your face – because yes, you won, you magnificent butter, chocolate and cheese stuffed bastard! I did indeed make this peppermint chocolate cake for my husband’s birthday in December. […]
My Faves This Year: Coco Cake Land Best Cakes Of 2014!
What a year. It flew by in a flash. I’m worried life’s going to continue on this mega fast path. Pretty soon I’ll be Old Lady Lyndsay with an angular blunt short hair cut, wild glasses and a flannel jumpsuit dictating cake instructions to able bodied assistants. 2014 ruled pretty hard – I met so […]
Lillie’s Pinkest Partiest Pink Party Cake!
We’re blessed with some pretty great friends here in Vancouver, many of whom now have little ones – which means adorable playdates galore! Yani and Paul have the cutest little Lillie. Lillie’s request for her birthday cake: the pinkest, partiest cake … with raspberries! Lillie had a tumblebus birthday – a bright yellow school bus […]
