Rose To The Occasion: How To Pipe Buttercream Roses

It's tough to deny how pretty a rose topped cupcake is, especially a buttercream rose that you cram-jam into your mouth... mmmm!

Find the whole DIY over at my How To Pipe Buttercream Roses post for Craftsy!

xo Lyndsay

Holiday Party Idea: Pink + Green Cupcakes

Make cupcakes for your holiday party this year! Update the classic Christmas colours with a party blaster of light pink, a fresh raspberry for contrast and green cupcake liners. Totally cute, totally party time and a nice modern feel.Find me elsewhere this week: Check out my post I wrote for Craftsy on how a blog may help your cake business! As you know,I'm a blog lover and fanatic - but along the way it's really helped Coco Cake Land grow! Plus my favourite holiday DIYs of the week: Sparkly sweet DIY geometric pastel garlands from La Maison De Loulou.This adorable and majorly simple gold triangle garland from Almost Makes Perfect!The cutest mini boxwood wreath DIY via Poppytalk. The most gorgeous photos of Linda's soft gingerbread cake with creamcheese frosting over at Call Me Cupcake - these photos will make you cry deep, beautiful Christmas tears, they're so lovely!Happy weekend, everyone!xo Lyndsay 

Hair Gets In Your Eyes: Sheepdog Cake

Gad I love this guy's face. I just want to cuddle him and pet him and feed him multi-colored milk bones and be his dog mom forever more. Sadly, he's going to be feeding himself to a bunch of super cute kids. Yes, Shyloh's 4th birthday cake - and to top it off, this sheepdog cake has pastel pink and green cake layers! What! This was a fun order, a remake of an older cake I designed - the very sheepdog cake that was featured on Bon Appetit a few years ago - yeah, sweet!

Thanks for the fun order, Genieve!

Question - what type of dog would you like to see in cake form, Coco Cake Land style? I've got a plan to make more of these puppies! (ha)... 

xo Lyndsay

Pretty Pink Ruffle Mini Cupcakes

Here in Vancouver, the days are getting colder, the air crisp and the sidewalks slippery with a layer of icy frost. Can you believe December is on its way? Still, my winter pansies are blooming and the oven's on full blast practically every day. Baking, photographing, writing and then chomping away at my cake props.

Flowers in winter seem like such a luxury. It's nice to grow some even in the cold. 

Dark chocolate mini cupcakes with vanilla buttercream tinted the lightest ballerina tulle pink and dusted with teensy rainbow sprinkles. The cupcakes are so little I ate one with a sugar bowl teaspoon.

Happy Monday, cake pals!

xo Lyndsay 

Mini Monster Eyeball Cupcakes DIY

Countdown to Halloween is totally on! For simple and cute cupcakes to bring to work or school on Halloween day, you can slam together these hairy eyeball cupcakes in no time flat! 

You'll need some colourful cupcake liners (I used orange) and a piping bag fitted with a multi-opening tip and filled with a bright colourful buttercream colour. I also made simple eyeballs from fondant and some mini sharp "teeth", too. Find the full monster cupcakes DIY over on my post on Craftsy!

These guys could totally be the weird offspring to my mutant bunny cake DIY I made for Handmade Charlotte, too!

Happy baking, pals!

xo Lyndsay 

How To Ice A Cupcake - 6 Designs

An icing style is like a hairstyle - ponytail, perm, straight, bangs, short cut, undercut, mohawk! Here are six different ways to instantly style and change up your cupcake frosting! The full tutorial is over on my post at Craftsy! What's your favourite way to ice a cupcake? 

Find Coco Cake Land elsewhere this week:

My post on awesome airbrushed cakes on Craftsy!

Sensational silver cakes! 

Happy Friday, dear readers! Back on Monday with more cakey bloggy goodness for you!

xo Lyndsay  

Dip Dye Cupcake DIY

I made the cutest little simple and easy dip dye cupcake DIY over at Poppytalk today. Click on over to Poppytalk now for the whole tutorial. It's simple as pie, guys, and colour-block cute to boot.

Happy Wednesday, cake pals!

xo Lyndsay

Neon Striped Cupcakes Tutorial

Zinnnng! I just zapped you with outrageous neon colours. No, I didn't. But I did create these neon striped cupcakes for you. They are cute and not really that outrageous at all. 

If I had piled on neon buttercream and a bunch of neon fondant doo-nads on top of each one and then dipped the whole shebang into a bucket load of rainbow sprinkles, that might be outrageous. These are more ... subtly neon! 

Perfect for an 80s themed party, a circus themed party, a primary colours party, a tight and bright party, a Pride party... oh, the list goes on. 

I used these cute little cupcake separator thingies that worked pretty well! They are made of food safe plastic and they nestle into your cupcake liner so you can pour the batter in stripes. Neat, right? You can find a link to the batter separators, called Batter Babies by Kimberware, here. 

Happy stripey times, cake pals!

xo Lyndsay 

cupcakes, photos and styling by Lyndsay Sung. 

Thank you Kimberware for sending me the batter babies! 

Artful Cakeful 4

Lemon cupcakes with pale pink and pale green frostings in the modern blobette style. Cute!