Woof woof – this easy chocolate bark recipe is so simple to make for the holidaze, or top a party cake, or to crunch and munch while slumped out like a potato sack for an evening of couch-sitting. Make it as a hostess gift, or break into shards and set in a candy dish for […]
Cool Times! Peppermint Grasshopper Pie Recipe For Food52
This grasshopper pie recipe. This pie causes insane dreams so maybe don’t eat it before bed while watching countless episodes of The Good Wife. Like your elementary school crush will meld with a side character on The Good Wife mixed with a pencil you saw in a commercial six years ago and suddenly you turn […]
Pingu Cake + Cupcakes
Noot noot! The cutest penguin in the world makes a pretty hee-larious cake. Pingu cake and Pingu, Pinga and Robbie the Seal cupcakes!
As Frozen As I Get: Frozen Princess Cake For Chloe!
Wide eyed children the world over have been swallowed by a sparkling glittery blue and white snow covered amoeba called Frozen. This amoeba warbles and wobbles into the minds of the kiddies, etches a catchy and intense song into their brains and causes widespread capitalist pandemonium at shopping malls. This CAKE! This is my Frozen […]
A Pie For Molly + Eggboy: Vegan Chocolate Ganache Pie Recipe
Molly YEH! Like a big old YAY. This woman. She brightens the internet like a half Chinese half Jewish, percussion-playing gorgeous firecracker blasting through the milky way, and she’s getting married to an EGG. A handsome, beet-farmer, musician-with-shaggy-hair EGG. So, to celebrate this wonderful union (ok, he has a name – Nick!) I made the […]
Put It In Your Bag And Pipe It: How To Use Piping Tips
If you’re a fan of Coco Cake Land, you know that I am nutso about vintage cakes – buttercream cakes and piping in all forms is the name of my game, and I love finding new uses for piping tips! I’m excited to show you how to use piping tips- along with a few of […]
Sugar Crush: Linda Lomelino of Call Me Cupcake
I loved doing this interview with my sweet online cake friend Linda Lomelino of the excruciatingly brilliant food blog Call Me Cupcake. You know when a photograph of a cake makes you catch your breath, then cry in buttercream beauty-pain? No? Yes? Yes – that’s what Linda’s artful, dramatic, achingly solitary and downright salivation-inducing photos do […]
Swiss Meringue Kisses Recipe
Crispy Sweet Meringues Addictive much? These crisp, sweet Swiss meringue kisses crush gently into sugary cotton candy air on the tongue. I couldn’t get enough of popping them into my mouth! Ahhhhh I was so relieved to finally learn how to make meringue kisses. Honest to Gad, this was my fifth attempt. Each time I […]
Cooking Books: Julia, Child and Chocolate Almond Cupcakes Recipe
As a child I was a total bookworm. I remember the excitement of being a kid and piling up 20 books from the library and lugging them home with my mom. We were surrounded by books as children and my favourites were always the ones with beautiful drawings of cakes or pastries or elaborate meals, […]
Hey Sungy – It’s Your Birthday! Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Recipe
Peanut butter cups addiction level high. Remedy: this epic birthday peanut butter chocolate cake recipe!
Party Like It’s 1994 – Pink Rosette Cake + A High School Reunion
Cakes with roses remind me of high school. Sheet cakes with electric blue borders and custard filling, Safeway cakes with hastily piped roses, cheesy flowers like the carnations and baby’s breath I had delivered to the ex-boyfriend who crushed my heart after I heard he broke his leg during a football game. Memory one: using […]
Lomelino’s Cakes: Raspberry Brownie Cake Recipe
Rich, brownie-like cake layers with a swiss meringue raspberry buttercream and drippy chocolate glaze, enter the gates of cake heaven with this brownie cake recipe
Look Who’s Talking Four: Pineapple Cake
Look who’s back… back again! Look who’s back … tell a friend! Pineapple cake, pineapple cake, pineapple cake. These pineapple eyes are smillin’… Sunglasses or not, dude’s a total fruity party animal. Where the pineapple goes, the party goes. CONFETTTTTTTI!!! Flowers, paper bits, whatever ya got! Happy 2nd birthday sweet little Flora! You are an […]
Pretty Palette: Rainbow Petal Cake
I made this cutie-pie tri-coloured petal cake and cute little matching mini cupcakes for Alice to celebrate the upcoming birth of her second babe. I have some thoughts about the petal cake which I will relay here: Man alive, it takes a while to pipe and pull, switch colours, pipe and pull, switch colours and keep […]
Totoro Week Gone Wild: How To Make A Catbus Cake
Catbus may very well be the ultimate feline party train – a flying fat cat faced furry magical bus that flies through the air, splaying eight fluffy spider-like legs, transporting sad children to catch a glimpse of their ill mother who is recovering in hospital. Continuing my celebratory snack attack EDIBLE TOTORO WEEK with I Am A […]
Gimme Gimme Ghibli: Totoro Cake Tutorial
It’s TOTORO WEEK! Self proclaimed by myself and my fellow Asian Vancouver love-her-to-bacon-bits blogger Steph of I Am A Food Blog. To celebrate, I made for you a Totoro cake tutorial! For some reason I’ve been humbuggy about Halloween posts this year. Maybe it’s because I bought a 128 piece box of Halloween candy and have been mindlessly […]
