Chocolate Raspberry Purple Ruffly Cake Cuteness!

Honestly. Sometimes I just want to put it on my head and wear it around like a pillbox hat. But then it would tip and unbalance and flop on the floor and I would have a big old cakey buttercream insanity mess to clean up! No to wearing cakes as hats, says me.

This cake! I loved it. And it was for a really lovely baby shower for the amazing Miranda of Blue Olive Photography, and all of her dear and crazy-creative friends threw her this really amazing looking party. Jeanie and Andrea were behind the shower awesomeness set-up and gorgeous decorations, in such a cute colour palette - yellow, grey, blue, orange and purple! No one asked me to make the cake purple but when I think of Miranda's photography and style I think vibrant, fun and bright. Violet purple ruffle-puff buttercream cake just seemed like the right thing to do!

Thanks ladies for having Coco Cake as a part of the beautiful celebration. 

And CONGRATULATIONS Miranda and Riley! Super exciting baby boy times ahead! 

xo Lyndsay

Last photo of cupcake set up with adorable bunting by Jeanie Ow!

Baby Face Cupcakes - Baby Shower!

Baby shower cupcakes ordered by Fei! Lemon Frill cupcakes - lemon cupcakes with lemon creamcheese frosting, and chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache! And... some fondant topper baby faces givin' some attitude!

Thanks Fei for the cute order!

Cutie Patootie Baby Shower!

A lovely order for Anne for her daughter-in-law Stephanie's baby shower. Pale yellow and pale green and white themed baby faced cupcakes in Lemon Frill! Cuteness alert!

Baby Shower Mini Cupcakes with Custom Flags

These little custom made baby-faced cupcake toppers I made crack me up with their different expressions! These toppers are what makes the difference between regular little mini cupcakes and an extra special array of mini cupcakes! Nicole ordered these for her cousin's baby shower... vanilla mini cupcakes in silver liners with vanilla creamcheese frosting in pale green and pale yellow palettes.

Perfectly adorable!

Yay Baby Ajay! Baby Shower Cake & Cupcakes

For a lovely soiree for sweet Natallie and her adorable little 2 month old Ajay, Natallie ordered up a whole bunch of specialty cupcakes and a matching cake. She requested a theme of light blue and white for the cupcakes, and of course little baby faces and baby blocks and a matching Baby Face cake. Holy cuteness. I was really stoked on trying out making little baby faces and a baby faced cake! I love trying stuff I've never done before. Challenges are good, creative problem solving can be fun... unless you're stuck, which is a real drag! Luckily I haven't felt too stuck lately... The Coco Cake flavours were Coconut Dream and Vanilla cupcakes, and a 9 inch vanilla specialty Baby Face cake!!! I was worried this might turn out creepy, but I think I got the cuteness down!

I felt extremely excited and happy about how these little baby faces and baby blocks turned out. I also made some cute little paper flags to stick into the cupcakes that didn't have fondant on them. Joy, joy! Too fun/funny. And out of all the baby faces, Rich's favourite is the crying one... Aiyahhh, Rich!!

Hello Lehlo!

How cute is my crafty art pal Joanne and her incredible design skills? I love parties with a beautiful design sense, and parties with serious cuteness... such as this whale invite! I made a dark chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling, with a little fondant whale in the color themes of red and blue, and mini dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache and colorful sprinkles.

Such a beautiful story too... Joanne's friends Julian and Catherine have adopted a baby from South Africa and have named him Lehlo... beautiful picture of the two of them cutting the Coco Cake whale-topped cake...! Amazing.

The last two pics (and the pic of the lovely couple smooching!) are ones Joanne took of the party... love the set-up, the heart cupcake pics, the goodie bags and the whale/heart theme everywhere!

Congratulations Julian and Catherine on the new addition to your "pod"!

xo

Pretty Baby Shower Cupcakes

My BFF Amy, who incidentally also works at the advertising agency TBWA, ordered a collection of pretty Coco Cake cupcakes for a baby shower for Jules at the office...

Pink rosette topped raspberry jam filled vanilla cupcakes, and vegan dark chocolate raspberry jam filled ganache covered cupcakes with hand-chopped sprinkles of Lindt dark chocolate! So pretty and so yummy! :)

Monkeyin' Around At Old Coco Cake HQ

Wheeee!! What fun... a beautiful color theme of pink, orange and brown made up this adorable baby shower cake and matching cupcakes-- with baby girl monkeys!! Kawaii!! Janice and Brent will be adopting a beautiful little girl from Vietnam, and have named her Jocelyn. The cake was chocolate with chocolate ganache filling and chocolate buttercream, covered in fondant; the cupcakes are Lemon Love, scrumptious lemon cake made with real lemon juice and lemon zest, and lemon creamcheese frosting. Yum!

I must have drawn about 30 monkey faces. They just kept looking like bears... until I realized--- I had to put the EARS down on the side of the head! Like humans! Not like teddy bears! Eeks... I was so happy with how it all turned out.

Congratulations on the new and wonderful excitement in your lives, Janice and Brent! Yay Baby Jocelyn!