Drippy Chocolate Nutella Birthday Cake

My man of almost 13 years (whutttt!) celebrated his birthday in December - he loves chocolate hazelnut, so I made him a dark chocolate with Nutella buttercream cake with a drippy shiny yummy ganache topping. Frigging perfect. I do love the drippy look - reminds me of Wayne Thiebaud's wonderful cake paintings! I've always loved those paintings. Thick paint spread on like a perfect buttercream as though you could eat the canvas, modest simple cakes displayed neatly, almost obsessively, side by side - ready to be sliced for eager customers or boxed up and gingerly taken home for a sweet birthday party. 

Happy happy birthday RT! Love you so much!

xo Lyndsay 

Happy New Year! 2013 Was Pretty Sweet In Coco Cake Land!

It's been a wild and wonderful year, both cakey and otherwise. My little man Teddy turned one, my husband is plowing through his third year of medical school, Coco Cake Land celebrated its 5 year anniversary, and I managed to jam pack in some seriously fun and cute cakes, whether it was a custom cake for a loyal client or a cakey DIY for Poppytalk, Craftsy or Handmade Charlotte!



It was my goal while on maternity leave to be able to build up enough freelance work that I could stay home with Teddy - so it's been a total dream to be able to do this. I am grateful and thankful for all of the wonderful opportunities this past year! And I am SUPER pumped on 2014, so much Coco Cake Land excitement ahead, including my new blog launch (wheee!) and some very exciting projects!

Here are my favourite cakes and projects of 2013 - enjoy! Happy new year to you all - thank you so much for continuing to join me on my cake journey, you guys!





 





 

 
 
 




 

 
 

 



Phewf! I shoulda broken that up into two posts I bet... oh well!

Which Coco Cake Land cakes were your favourite??

Happy 2014 to you all, cake pals - see you real soon! 

xo Lyndsay

Happy Holidays From Coco Cake Land!

"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night - and God bless us, everyone!" When we were kids we watched the George C Scott version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol every year on a rickety scratched up old Beta tape, taped off the TV, with brutal 80s commercials and all! We finally upgraded in the new millenium with a VHS version. I love Christmas, always have - I think that deep love for the holidays was instilled by my mom at a very early age. Later on we fell in love with White Christmas - oh, the drama, the romance, the costumes! And of course the music... and It's A Wonderful Life always gets me. Tears, I tell ya. Beautiful tears - I love Jimmy Stewart. 

What does Christmas mean to you? To me, it means spending time with my nearest and dearest, baking, cooking and eating, laughing, drinking and snacking, gifting and playing in the snow and gazing at twinkly lights on our Charlie Brown Christmas tree. And Christmas has been re-born for me since Teddy came into my life - watching him be dazzled and delighted by Christmas cuteness is the most amazing thing. We got him a super cute wooden play kitchen - I can't wait to play with it! Haha. 

Happy Holidays to all my cake pals, blog readers, lovely cake fans and passer-by! Hope you get to do something wintry, cozy and fun with those you love. 

xo Lyndsay 

Throw Me A Bone, Guys: Dalmation Dog Cake

Gad I LOVE this guy! He's so cute! I made this cake for Rachel for her sweet little cool guy Fox's 3rd birthday. Yeah, Fox! I love that name. I made Fox's 1st birthday cake in 2011 and it's always so nice to make cakes for previous clients - especially the super nice and cool ones! Fox is nuts about fire trucks so I suggested a dalmation dog cake and a hand drawn firetruck cake topper. And I threw the dog a bone, too - a bone cake flag, that is!

Thanks so much Rachel for the fun order and Happy 3rd Birthday Fox!

 xo Lyndsay

Mountains + Moon Snowy Cake For Poppytalk: Holiday Cuteness!

I'm in love with this super sweet cake topper DIY I made for Poppytalk - I want to face-plant into that white, billowy whipped cream and make, like, fifteen snow angels. Click here to see the full mountains and moon cake topper DIY.

You can find Coco Cake Land (me!) elsewhere this week over at ye olde Craftsy this week, too - with a helpful Cake Inc blog post on Tips On How To Write A Business Plan For Your Cake Business. 

More beauty on the internet - fave posts of the week: 

The coolest puffy sculptural honeycomb wreath DIY by Chiara over at Oh Happy Day.

Gosh darn it Amelia from The Homebook is such a funny, cool creative mama. Love her book-inspired gift wrap over on You Are My Fave.

Love this simple triangle wreath DIY over at Almost Makes Perfect.

Happy weekend, dear cake pals!

See you soon with more cakey cuteness.

xo Lyndsay

My Dad's 70th Birthday + Pineapple Wearing Sunglasses Cake!

I don't think you'd expect anything less than a pineapple wearing sunglasses cake. For my dad's Hawaiian themed 70th birthday party bash, of course! 

I started off with this guy. Coconut cake with creamcheese frosting. Casual, cool as a cucumber Mr. Pineapple Head cake face duder. 

Sunglasses were really the only choice. It had to be done. Gerry (my dad) is the COOLEST GUY EVER. And cool guys wear shades. James Dean, Magnum P.I., Gerry Sung ... you get the idea. 

And here he is, with my mom - beaming from ear to ear - we had a KILLER party at our house for him! Hawaiian donuts and fresh floral leis flown in from Hawaii via one of my dad's best pals, our awesome caterer Ronnie frying it up and BBQing in three huge woks and a charcoal grill in the backyard, over sixty people partying in our home - by the way, Chinese Canadian seniors know how to party.

And here I am with my dad, a.k.a. The Moustache. Happy happy birthday, dad! I love you so much - thank you for always loving me, supporting me in all of my endeavours, making me laugh, and for being the COOLEST DAD EVER! Here's to many more years of love, fun, health and happiness!

Love Lyndsay