Maximum Overdrive birthday cake also known as: I turned 41! In my crotchety old mind I thought I was referring to this Sly Stallone movie all about ARM WRESTLING. But I guess I was actually referring to this Stephen King schlock-a-block 1980s movie Maximum Overdrive – all about when machines attack?? Perhaps this is a good […]
Flower Crown Cat Cake
MEOW MIX! I’ve got lots of cakes to share in the coming weeks, including this furry yellow buttercream cutie cat made for sweet little Rosie, two-year-oldย Vice President of Collage Collage! Rosie loves cats, she loves yellow. Together, with her namesake flower crown? Flower Crown Cat Cake, headed to the feline version of Burning Man or […]
Pretty In Pink Cake Faceplant
I made this GORGE pretty in pink cake for my food blogger pal Samantha of My Kitchen Love.ย Before I tell you more, may I bore you with some life inner monologue? My “cake career” has had so many ups and downs, and has morphed and changed with the tides over the course of a decade […]
Matcha Frankenstein Totoro Cake
“IT’S the most … wonderful time… of the YEAR!” Yep, that’s right – TOTORO WEEK! Where a coupla kooky fun loving blogger buddies get together and make some Totoro stuff to flood the internet, including my main blog squeeze, Steph of I Am A Food Blog! This year, I decided to combine a Halloween kawaii-spooky […]
Rainbow Caticorn Cake
Updated April 9, 2026 Sometimes in life you just want to look at a freaking cute picture of a rainbow caticorn cake, you know? Yes, that’s right. A majestic unicorn and a very cute chill cat got together one extra-sparkly afternoon and decided to make a baby. I’m not even going to say who was […]
Banana Bundt Cake with Bourbon Caramel
This banana bundt cake recipe comes from my pal “Call Me Cupcake.” I’ve known sweet Linda Lomelino for almost a decade now – we’ve both been on the damn internet that long, and I’ve watched her popularity explode, and rightly so: she is so crazily talented, baking and photographing everything in her home in the […]
Ghost Cake
Happy ghost cake. Sad ghost cake! Hallowiener is upon us so I thought I’d post this ghosty guy I made in the hot drippy heat of July, for no reason at all, except, whoops it’s October and I have an accidental ghost cake to post. I’ve been lite-googling “dinosaur mask paper mache” because I was […]
Cake Walk Birthday Party
Back in June, we had aย cake walk tragedy…ย and it came to pass that we would have a CAKE WALK BIRTHDAY PARTY this year for Teddy’s fifth birthday.ย Does the world generally know what a cake walk is?? Or is it a Canadian thing, or a carnival game of yesteryear? It’s like a cake-version of musical chairs, […]
Rilakkuma Cake For I Am A Food Blog!
Look at that dreamy fluffy adorable face! It’s so hard not to just snuggle the daylights out of this Rilakkuma cake face. I made this lil guy as a secret surprise for my blog bestie Steph!ย Three years ago now, I received an email from her saying “hi” and seeing if I wanted to meet up […]
Red Panda Cake For Teddy’s 5th Birthday
On Teddy’s last preschool field trip, the big old yellow bus rumbled along the highway all the way out to Aldergrove, BC to the Greater Vancouver Zoo, a place I had no idea existed. Lions, giraffes, zebras, gorillas??? white timbre wolves… all of these disparate animals from all over the world converging on a piece […]
Buttercream Rose Meringue Kisses Cake
I’ve been on a bit of piping train lately CHOO CHOO -if you can’t tell! I’ve always loved vintage buttercream piping techniques but I am really into this buttercream rose meringue kisses cake with its mix of modern meringues and “old timey” piping vibes. Crispy chewy sweet meringues give such a nice textural element to […]
Square Buttercream Flower Cake + Teddy’s “Graduation”
My lil man T “graduated” from preschool in June. My heart was both filled with joy and pride but also brutalized by sadness – hearing his scratchy little singing voice belting out “He’s got the whole world in his hands!!” amongst his class of cuties, well, I was basically a puddle on the gym floor […]
Strawberry Sheet Cake
INTRODUCING, COCO CAKE LAND SALMON MOUSSE!! Jk, jk – this is not salmon mousse. In fact, it is a light and fluffy pink tinged strawberry sheet cake piped rather OCD-like in strawberry swiss meringue buttercream.ย The cake base recipe is from A Cozy Kitchen, except I didn’t roast my strawberries, I just purรฉed them – […]
Piped Rainbow Buttercream Flower Cake
I made this CAYOOT piped rainbow buttercream flower cake for another local school’s cake walk – one of the teachers follows me on Instagram and has asked me for a few years now to make a cake – so this year I rolled up ye old sleeves and power-piped out this cake. It was supposed […]
Macerated Strawberry Pavlova
Summah, babies!! Sorry, I’ve been listening nonstop to Two Dope Queens and it has been affecting my casual times Canadian vernacular. Listening to a current podcast is very 2017 of me which I am somewhat proud. Starting Breaking Bad Season 1 Episode 1 is very 2008 of me, which I am also proud, because millions […]
Chocolate Caramel Mac Nut Tart
Back in March 2017, my entire family took a very special trip to Maui – my mom, my dad, my sisters, husbands and all of our kids, a trip a few years in the making, as my dear dad hasn’t been able to travel due to health issues and had finally gotten the okay from […]
