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 […]
Happy 40th Anniversary Mom and Dad!!
A shout out to the best parents in the world: Gerry and Linda Sung! Forty years ago today they were married in Vancouver at a church on Oak Street. They had a huge reception at the Westin Bayshore (back when they still had Trader Vic’s restaurant!), then, the next day, an additional 500-guest Chinese reception […]
Berlin! Ice Cream and Wiener Time
Taste Of Berlin: Wiener Time! Wonderful Berlin, Germany. Packed with sordid history, high fashion, excellent Turkish food, major art, gorgeously green in Spring and Summer, 70 cent beer at the corner store, delightful cheeses and the best hearty, grainy bread… While in Berlin on our recent trip to Europe, we stood in a large line […]
Taste of Amsterdam
Dankuvel! My hubby and I just returned from a bonkers trip to Amsterdam and Berlin, where we visited some awesome friends, and awesome cousins for a real trip to remember. Food mania! The main tourist area of Amsterdam is what I christened to be the “munchie capital of the world”… all the junk food you […]
Sesame Street Party Animal Cupcakes
Take a little look at these nutty-faced Sesame Street themed cupcakes for a birthday party. Cookie Monster, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch and Ernie! Cookie Monster is totally my fave Sesame Streeter so I was very excited to make him! Using my “hairy frosting tip”, I created a fuzzy looking Cookie Monster. Using fondant and chocolate […]
Meow Mix: Harold The Cat Cake!
Okay. This cake KILLED ME with cuteness while making it. I was chuckling away like a nutbar, especially when I did the finishing touches of orange vanilla buttercream mini-beard and half moustache to this cutie cat. The amazing Kathy Slade commissioned me to make a likeness Lemon Love cake out of her dear kitty Harold, […]
Insane Totoro Cupcakes!
Totoro cupcakes! Insane because I went a little insane making these crazy guys. They were a bit on the labour-intensive side but I just love love loved how they turned out!!! And the sweetest thing in the world happened… Tina, the awesome woman who ordered them for her sister’s birthday, gave me a PRESENT… a […]
"Where The Wild Things Are" Cake!
Fun fun times! Moishe, the yellow eyed monster dude from “Where The Wild Things Are“, was the request for today’s cake of the day. Chocolate cake with peppermint buttercream covered in fondant, and Coco Cake’s rendition of Moishe’s hilarious face. To make Moishe, first I baked, cooled and frosted (with peppermint buttercream) a 7 inch […]
Flamingo
Imagine a fuschia pink feathered bird in a tropical setting, with long legs and a funny beak. Now imagine that same bird hanging around at a Chinese restaurant having Dim Sum. Flamingo on Cambie Street in Vancouver… a sparkly sign; tanks of live fish, elastic banded brown lobsters and spidery, spindly King Crab; pink tablecloths, […]
