How’s your year going? Yeah. I hear ya. I don’t think I’ve been the only one in a braindead, uncreative funk. What, with a pandemic to worry about and all. BUT – December 2020! It’s frigging Christmas again! So here we are, keeping to ourselves, with provincial health protocols banning social gatherings of any kind, […]
Vegan Fried Chicken Recipe
Vegan fried chicken recipe!? On a cake blog? Sure.
Vegan Buttercream Rose Cake
SHEEEEEET CAKEEEEEE! The ultimate crowd pleaser at a family reunion, 100 guest-list birthday party, high school graduation, etc… often procured from megastores and supermarkets, frosted hastily by power-professionals churning them out by the icing-from-a-bucket dozen. Except this one is a perfectly cute little square, topped with a garden of buttercream roses, made on a very […]
Put It In Your Bag And Pipe It: Rainbow Buttercream Cake
Do you like a rainbow top hat made of buttercream??? You are in luck!! Though I wouldn’t recommend wearing this on your head. However, if you wanted to make this rainbow buttercream cake for your next Pride or birthday party, I would definitely approve. A big old rainbow thumbs up. I made this rainbow buttercream […]
How To Make A Fox Cake
A BLUE Arctic Fox, no less! I realized I never shared this “How To Make A Fox Cake” Youtube video tutorial I made with CBC Arts! So here ya go! Happy fox-cake-making! xo Lyndsay
Banana Milk Bubble Tea
Three cheers for homemade bubble tea! My sister gifted us with a do-it-yourself bubble tea kit, including these awesome reusable metal straws. Having just had bing soo at a local Asian desserts spot, I washed the cups out with hot soapy water like a NERD so our homemade bubble tea would look just like the […]
Yuanyang Coffee Milk Tea Cake
What is your favourite bubble tea? We very recently put on masks and scarily hit up THE MALL to get bubble tea at Chatime with Teddy’s cousins. Everything with Horrible Covid feels terrifying until you do it. The first time I went grocery shopping in March, I had so much anxiety. Now, wearing masks in […]
Pastel Painted Cake – Something Pretty To Gaze At
How ya doing? … I know. It’s the most innocuous, casual times question in the normal world. But we’re not in the normal world right now. I thought I’d post a cake from many months ago… just to post something pretty. Something to gaze at, something colourful! I hope you are all doing ok! A […]
Kawaii Chewbacca Cake
Kawaii Chewbacca cake!!! I made this cake for my newest nephew, baby Elliott, future Star Wars mega fan, ha. Cute right?? Well lemme tell you… this Chewbacca cake started off the opposite of cute. In fact, he started off as a big old cake-stuck-in-the-pan mess. I forgot to spray my cake pans with my usual […]
Holy Sheet: Cherry Bombe Buttercream Sheet Cake + Cherry Bombe Jubilee Seattle
Happy 2020! I’ve been hibernating in a deep January funk, but clawing my way out as teensy signs of Spring appear in our neighborhood. Back in November, my favourite Donna emailed me asking me if I would like to create something for Cherry Bombe Jubilee Seattle. After telling her that I was feeling a bit […]
Oh Deer – Kawaii Pink Deer Cake For Saya
Oh deer – I’ve let another few months slip by without posting a single thing to my blog. I had a very busy November and early December – three trips!! And a very busy Coco Cake Land Autumn. Mix that all up with some existential cake career angst. And now here we are, practically deep […]
Jiji The Cat Cake For Totoro Week!
It’s #TOTOROWEEK – also known as the week leading up to Halloween, as created by my blog bestie Steph of I Am A Food Blog! For the past several years, we’ve been making Totoro themed food and cakes just for the Totoro heck of it. Phewf, I got in just under the wire with this kawaii […]
Teddy’s Buried Treasure Cake With Kiddoz Cookbook!
Have you ever baked with your child? AKA, have you ever BLOWN YOUR TOP in the kitchen because of the flour and sugar sandstorm, the cracked eggs all over the counter, the spilled milk… hehe. Ahhh but thank goodness for this awesome Kickstarter project: the cutest new cookbook for kids – KIDDOZ! It’s an interactive […]
Abstract Buttercream Painted Cake
Some days I feel so STUCK in my own aesthetic. While I love creating animal cakes and piping buttercream and coming up with super duper kawaii faced creature cakes, I also long to bust outta my cake box. This is what I love about Instagram – coming across new cake decorating techniques and being awe-inspired […]
Kawaii Ghost Graveyard Cake!
It’s HALLOWEEEEEEEEN month!! Hooray! To celebrate, I made this kawaii ghost graveyard cake to get everyone in the Halloween mood, hehe. is chock full of awesome cake and cookie decorating supplies to help you get your trick-or-treat on! As soon as I saw the and the , a lightbulb went off – I wanted to […]
Happy 10th Birthday Collage Collage!
Happy tenth birthday Collage Collage!!!!! A.K.A. one of the greatest shops in all of Vancouver, where you can find the most adorably and thoughtfully curated children’s books, art supplies, ceramics, children’s and adult art classes, MY BOOK, and so much more. This whole brilliant idea belongs to my dear friend Erin Boniferro, one of Vancouver’s sparkling […]
