Brody’s 2nd birthday party! How cute is my little nephew Brody?? Not even these little orange cupcake owlies are half as cute as Brody! Awesome sign my sis Leanne made! (she’s also 5 months pregs! Go sis go!) “I don’t give a HOOT if I get eaten! No, really!” Adorable crafty arty owlies… kid’s parties […]
Perfectly Rosy Garden Party Cupcakes
Sandra had a very specific request for her sweet daughter’s second birthday party: garden party themed, with two colour rosette buttercream tops! I loved how these turned out… vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream! I added some pink fondant flower embellishments with white non-pareil candy dots, and green fondant leaves as accents. Sandra sent me a […]
Salmon Nigiri Birthday Cake!
I’ve come to the realization that, apart from making beautiful little artful cupcakes, making cakes that look like other types of food is one of my favourite Coco Cake things to do. (See: hamburger cake, pizza cake, fish cake…) There is just an inherent sense of comedy and whimsy in this concept that I find […]
We Interrupt Our Normal Blogging With…
It was my BIRTHDAY on Sunday! Hooray! I turned… gasp… 33. THIRTY THREE! thirty three. See, I have to write it a bunch of times to get used to it. Actually, about 6 months before every birthday I start thinking I’m the next age already (in order to mentally prepare) so I guess I’m used […]
Wilder and Wilder! Where The Wild Things Are Cake + Cupcakes
Oh man. How I freak out with excitement when I look at these Where The Wild Things Are cake and cupcakes! What an order! Loved it! OH CUTENESS!!! Lovely Samantha phoned me at good old Coco Cake HQ with a request: a Where The Wild Things Are cake and matching specialty cupcakes for her son […]
Pretty Pistachio Rosewater Cupcakes!
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 […]
