Pingu cake! Noot noot!
This past summer I wanted so badly to make Teddy a Pingu cake for his birthday. Every time I’d ask him what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday, he would tell me he wanted a BLUE BEAR BEAR CAKE. FINE, toddler child o’ mine. I know it’s your birthday and not mine!!! A blue bear cake you asked for, a blue bear cake you received!
Happily, just a few months later, a VERY COOL SET OF GRANDPARENTS emailed me to see if I could make a Pingu cake and cupcakes for their grandson Neo’s 2nd birthday. Yes, Neo. Very rad name. So I got to fulfill my dream of making Pingu cakes!! This order was so fun – it reminded me of my olden days of cupcake making, when my whole jam was making cute animal cupcakes and matching cakes.
I don’t really take on orders like this anymore because: 1.I’m old and tired. 2. They are a LOT of work! But dang it, when characters are this cute … I literally squealed like an excitable Vietnamese potbellied pig when I put together Pinga‘s little face.
Watching Teddy watch Pingu makes me smile (maybe cry?) with joy. When my little son busts out into a hysterical giggle fit because Pingu physical-comedy-splatted on the ice or when a flying fish lands on Pingu’s head – oh boy oh boy. Plus, there’s always lessons to be learned in non-verbal gobbledygook stop motion animation – for example, don’t let a seagull shit on you constantly, burp with glorious abandon, love your family and little sis, explore the world around you, be a sweet and empathetic penguin … LESSONS, guys. I’ve seen a LOT of Pingu, let me tell ya.
On another note… man alive, was I surprised and happy to be featured on Buzzfeed a few weeks ago! I dunno if my cakes are truly the cutest cakes on earth but thank you so much for saying so! I sort of had to build up my blog and “cake rep” again on the internets, after I quit blogging for a year and disappeared into a hole of depression – So it’s been a real nice feather in my cap to be recognized around internet town lately. Thanks also to Yahoo Food for loving on my rainbow cat cake, and for asking me to do a holiday food-lovin’ gift guide, too! If you want to read “watermelon coming out of my ladyzone” and delight your eyes with cheeseburger wrapping paper all in one blog post, it’s a must-read!
Hope you’re all enjoying/surviving/snacking your way through December…and thank you to the Scherzers for the great Pingu order! Noot noot, y’all!!! xo Lyndsay
Michelle @ Hummingbird High
Aww these are so friggin’ cute!!! Also really awesome that you’re getting so much recognition after a dark time. You deserve it girl, truly. XOXO
Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land
hehe thanks so much michelle, you are so sweet!! XO
molly yeh
omg this is the cutest and the most hilarious. i love it!!!!
Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land
haha … thanks molly!!! anywhere i can provide comedy to you i am STOKED! XO
Sarah
I loooove Pingu! These are fantastic. :) I want Pinga cupcakes for my next birthday! xoxo
Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land
yay!! omg i wish this was MY cake and cupcakes, too!! thanks sarah! :)
Agnes {Cashew Kitchen}
Pingu! Absolutely love this <3 I think we can safely say you make the cutest cakes on earth :)
cynthia
AHHHHhhhh I LOVE these cakes!!!!!! I lol’ed when I saw them (and when @PinguNoots nooted at us, best day ever). And you deserve every bit of recognition you are getting and MORE, my gorgeous talented friend!!!!! You are amazing. :):) I’m so glad you came back to blogging after your hiatus, especially since it let me find you this year. So so happy I did! Noot noot!!
Emily
these are absolutely adorable! I love pingu! congrats on your buzzfeed fame :-)
Rich
These are a perfect throwback to your cute animal faces era. So cute and delightfully not heavy handed in design and execution. You do make the cutest cakes on earth!!! NOOT NOOT!!
Mariana @The Candid Kitchen
OOOOOOOOMG I LOVE IT SO MUCH! Pingu was my fave x
Christina @ The Beautiful Balance
Okay, these are the cutest cupcakes I’ve ever seen!!
trish
love these! my son and i would watch pingu when we lived in taiwan. we would laugh until the tears rolled. he was 2 then. he’s 18 now and we still have his stuffed pingu!