Little Pink Cakes for New Babies!

I never knew it was possible to love so many little people so dearly the way I love my little nephews and nieces. If I'm ever having a crapola day and feeling down in the dumps all I need to do is look at some hilarious photos of Tanner eating soup or watch a video of 2 year old Kensie pounding on the piano singing a made-up song and suddenly life seems much better...

Recently two more babies were added to the growing brood my sisters have created - baby Piper and baby Brooklyn. To celebrate, my parents threw a combined 100 Day Chinese Baby Banquet celebration at one of our top favourite Chinese food haunts, Golden Ocean here in Vancouver...

Baby Brooklyn and mama Shelley (my middle sis!)...

baby Piper and my eldest sis Leanne!

Adorable Tanner with his chopstick

Kensie and Brody going loco-dingo wild, post-cupcakes

I made pink rosette frosted vanilla cupcakes and little bunny flags (as both babies are Year Of The Rabbit)! It was a magnificent dinner and there were guests a-plenty, including tons of kids who darted out and around the legs of bustling servers carrying trays of hot food, running around like wildchilds and gazing with mystery and laughter into the live water tanks of crab, lobster and fish.

It was a great evening and Auntie Coco Cake is just thrilled to have two more sweet and adorable nieces to love and help care for (and, of course, to make cakes for...!) I love you Pipey and Brooky!

xo Lyndsay

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 her a 100 day party at a Chinese restaurant here in Vancouver! Red eggs, pickled ginger and a 10 course feast with many family members and friends helped welcome Kensie into the world. My sis Shelley, Kensie's mama, requested vanilla cupcakes with a pink rosette top, so I made 150+ of these pretty little cupcakes in honour of Kensie!

So many of my favorite people came out to part-ay with us, and above is a selection of pics of some of them enjoying their Coco Cake cupcakes!!

The last pic is of the cutie Kensie herself-- chillin' in her puffy bear suit at the end of the night!