Coco Cake in Elle Girl Korea magazine!

I didn't believe it until I got a knock at the front door with a UPS guy holding a package for me. Confused, I thought, "man did I buy something off Ebay and I totally forgot? I have a problem." and then I looked down and saw it was from KOREA! Cool!

So Elle Girl Korea indeed asked me to make a cake for them, and they put a nice little article in their magazine about me and Coco Cake! Shocking!! I was sure it was a prank of some kind, another spam/scam of someone wanting me to make them a $2000 strawberry wedding cake!

And since I have a Korean connection via my cousin from another Asian mother Christa, she had her friend translate the text for me!

"Birthday cake makes your birthday, the most special day in your life, more meaningful and memorable. It's a gift you like to make for your family, love and best friends one day. Vancouver's Boutique Custom Cake Company 'Coco Cake' sent a beautiful birthday cake for Elle Girl's 8th Birthday. Lyndsay Sung, the owner and cake designer, self taught Baking and cake decoration art after completing a degree in Media Arts and opened "Coco Cake". Talented Lyndsay is not only interested in food but also in Photography and Visual Art; between the busy days at Coco Cake, she also teaches Fine Arts to kids. You can order special cakes on special days such as Wedding, Birthday. Orders can be done online and offline so adults and kids really like it. If you are curious about pretty cakes that make your eyes and mouth happy, please check www.cococake.com"

Pretty cool!!! Thank you so much Elle Girl magazine! ^__^

I Heart Cake! I Heart You!

Happy Friday everyone! and happy weekend of Valentine's Day-ish love. Love comes in many forms... relationships, friends, family... so treasure those who are close to you. I'm sending posi-love-rays through the internet to you all right now... and with this cake!

I love this cake! Elle Girl Korea contacted little old Coco Cake to make a super cute cake for their 8th anniversary issue, along with a little mini spread on Coco Cake's cake work. Kinda crazy and kinda cool right! Will be the first time I'll see my cakes in a glossy magazine. Ooooh I can't wait to get it in the mail! I'll be monitoring the mailbox come March! And of course I also have my doubts that it will even make it into the magazine?? The cruel hard world of publishing... ^__^ Even if it doesn't make the cut, I still have these ADORABLE pictures to show you!

Since I was making this cake for a photoshoot, I had to give it away ... and what better place to give it away to than my other place of work, Arts Umbrella... where I teach art to crazy little kiddies! Fun! Let's just say surprise cake in the afternoon was received rather well... !

The cake was vanilla with raspberry syrup, and vanilla buttercream. I felt compelled to make the layers different shades of pink... I love the surprise of a white cake, and inside a gorgeous colour spectrum! Going to experiment with some natural colouring ideas. My fellow cakers/readers out there, anyone have any suggestions? Beet juice? Raspberry puree? Anyone had any luck with these?

Happy Weekend to you all! And to local Vancouverites, there's still time to order a special little party box of cupcake delights for your loved ones -- email lyndsay@cococake.com!

xo Lyndsay