Sweet Lillie's 1st Ruffly Pink Cupcake Birthday

A cool thing about having a baby is meeting other ladies who have babies. You become mama pals. And your babies in turn become buddies! It's a wild ride, this baby roller coaster. But having cool new mom pals to hang out with is pretty sweet. I hadn't seen Yani in years, and happened to run into her one evening in September while I was gingerly, nervously strolling my two week old kid - was he going to stay sleeping? Would he blow his top and scream cry in the middle of the street, far away from the safety of our home?

It was my first venture out - going for ice cream. (I had chocolate peanut butter. Heh). Lo and behold there was Yani and her extended family - she had a kid too!! Not just any baby, either - the cutest, roundest, most styling little baby named Lillie! Adorable! Of course she would be styling. Yani and Paul, Lillie's parents, are Vancouver's most fashionable couple!

Yani asked me to make some pink ruffly vanilla cupcakes for Lillie's 1st birthday at Collage Collage. It was a wonderful little party, a giant pink balloon for the birthday baby, drinks and snacks, pompom making (i really wanted to make one!) and plenty of family and friends warming up the place.

So cute. Happy 1st birthday Lillie! Glad Teddy and I got to come and say hi!

xo Lyndsay

(photos of Lillie's party by Lynne Turner)

Birthday Cupcakes For River!

Some lovely, simple frosted dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream and turquoise vanilla buttercream for River's birthday... man I love taking pride in frosting a cupcake. Cake-nerdy but true... and I couldn't help but plunk that vintage ballerina into a turquoise rosette buttercream quicksand for a photo! I LOVE that vase, bought it last year from Dahlhaus, a local Vancouver gal who does amazing ceramic work! My mom bought me those flowers... ^__^

Thanks Sarah for the order... and happy birthday River!

xo Lyndsay

Piper's Little Birdie 1st Birthday!

These photographs are much too lovely to blabber over - Piper's 1st birthday back in July - I made the pink ruffly cake and cupcakes, with a little birdie flag. My amazing sister did all of the party design including signage, loot bags, colouring pages! And she has three little ones still 4 years old and under. Happy 1st birthday adorable little Piper! Love you!

Beautiful photography by Lori K.

Two Cakes

I'm lucky. I have wonderful customers who like to bulk order and book in advance... cakes for all occasions! Bambs ordered a sweet little buttercream vintage-look cake for her husband to celebrate their wedding anniversary... and also ordered a cute Good Earth fairy cake and matching cupcakes for the adorable little Thea.

And I cannot write a post without saying this:

GO CANUCKS GO!

The Vancouver Canucks, our city's hockey team, are in the Stanley Cup Finals!! Read about a new tradition in our family - Victory Fei Fei Ice Cream Pie - HERE!

Tanner's Hawaiian 1st Birthday Bash : PINEAPPLE HEAD CAKE!

Twins! Separated at birth! Just kidding Tanny!!

Tanner's cake table set-up!

Cupcakes by Coco Cake! And my cute little nephew Brody chowing down!

I made this banner... Tanner's Banners!

Aggghhh! Tanny, you crazy cutie!

Tanner with his big bro, and my sis Leanne (she's also pregs! Baby Factory!) and proud Papa Dan!

My favourite of the banners I made. PINEAPPLE DUDES

OMG.

My hilarious, hefty and adorable little nephew Tanner turned 1 years old on May 15th! Since our family straight-up has Hawaii in our blood, my sis threw him a Hawaiian-themed 1st birthday bash! So cute! The party was documented beautifully by the incomparable and amazing Camille and Chadwick of Jonetsu Photography here in Vancouver.

Back to Tanner. I've always described him as a pale, gingery-brown haired little chubalub with an adorable Chinese face smack right in the middle! He is such a chuckling, good-natured, funny little guy. His hair has always had a mind of its own - he had a straight up fully natural fashion faux-hawk until his hair grew into the light orangey brown fashion plate haircut of late! It kind of looks like he's wearing a cute little wig... I love you Tanny!

For his Hawaiian themed party, I made coconut cupcakes with vanilla creamcheese frosting and toasted coconut, as well as lemon cupcakes and chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. I also made a super kawaii cute banner for Tanner (yes, I know this rhymes) with little pineapple dudes... and a PINEAPPLE cake! With a face, naturally, of course. The cake itself was coconut flavoured. ^__^

So much fun! I just love Hawaii. It feels so similar to Vancouver in its diverse and open minded population... but in a tropical setting, of course. Love and shout-outs to Hawaii!

Happy Birthday Tanny!

Love, Auntie Lyndsay

gorgeous photography courtesy of Camille & Chadwick of Jonetsu Photography.

BroBro turns 3! My nephew Brody's birthday!

Brody! You turned 3 years old! What the heck! And you love fishies, and underwater stuff, and anything to do with the ocean and the aquarium!! So Auntie Coco Cake made you a fish themed vanilla birthday cake and matching vanilla and chocolate cupcakes in a yellow and blue stripey motif! And you had a blast and a half at your birthday partying it up in the gymnasium, ripping around in mini cars and climbing over jungle gyms and crawling through makeshift tunnels made of puffy oversized coloured blocks, then eating up your cheese and crackers and pieces of apple and carrots and stuff. And then the whole room sang Happy Birthday to you and you smiled, blew out the candles (sort of) and licked the frosting off a vanilla buttercream topped cupcake and it made Auntie Coco Cake very happy!

Happy Birthday to my little BroBro! Love you lots!

Happy Birthday Aaro

I have very kind and cool Coco Cake customers and I am lucky for this! I made cute little balloon-themed cupcakes for little Aaro's birthday, in Brown Velour flavour. Happy Birthday Aaro!

Kelli-Lou, Happy Birthday To You!

It's a true joy in my Coco Cakey heart when I get to make some special delights for the wonderful people in my life! Kelli-Lou is the awesome mom to my dear friend Sharon and her two sisters Kim and Jillian... the three of 'em are ahhhdorable in every way and they remind me of me and my two sisters and how much we love each other and like hanging out while still getting annoyed with each other sometimes but we're sisters so that's that.

Kelli hit the big 'n beautiful 60 this past weekend and Sharon asked me to make some pretty floral cupcakes for her mum! I also found this awesome vintage wrapping paper in the bottom of my craft paper box (I forgot I bought it off Ebay a few years ago when I had what I like to call my "Ebay problem") so I made some darn-tootin'-cute flags out of it! Sharon and her lovely sisters are all vegan, so the cupcakes were deliciously vegan! Egg and dairy free! I made vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream in two styles: yellow roses and pink rosettes!

I was told there was a wicked young people vs. older people Charades game played at the party, as well as birthday cheer, laughs galore and plenty of glasses of wine down the hatch! Sounds like a truly fun birthday bash.

Happy happy birthday dear Kelli!

xo Lyndsay