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 

Boo-yah!! Happy Halloween Coco Cakers!

An adorable and fun last minute order from Andrea, ordered for her "moms and tots" Halloween bash. So cute. Andrea was hoping for a modern take on a Halloweeny-type cupcake... so we went with some jackolanterns and a clean, modern, white and ghosty look: white fondant "BOO" engraved cupcakes! The cupcakes were the ever-popular Brown Velour flavour -- dark chocolate cupcake with vanilla creamcheese frosting. My personal favourite. I could sit on the couch and hoover them if I let myself!! But I won't, gosh darnit.

This year I am so excited about Halloween day... I booked the whole day off so I could spend it with my niece and nephews!! I'm planning on making some wicked Halloween treats and then going trick-or-treating with them. Man I still remember the sheer excitement of Halloween when I was a kid. Months thinking about costumes, and finally the big day arrives... a parade in the school gym wearing your costumes, candy all day, rushing home after school wishing every hour would pass quicker so night would fall. An early dinner, then jackets on top of costumes and out the door! Hours later, a bag brimming with hard-earned Trick-or-Treat candy after a long cold night of knocking on doors (haha)... hot chocolate with mini marshmallows and fireworks in our backyard, a feeling of tiredness but still lingering excitement as you fall asleep, dreaming of all the candy you're going to stuff your face with tomorrow...!

...and... here is a picture of me from last year, with my little nephew Brody and little niece Kensie in their last year's costumes... heehee! Not to worry, two minutes later I had distracted Brody with Kensie's bumbleebee wings and he was as happy as a...fish.

Happy Halloween everyone... hope you all have tons o' fun!

xo Lyndsay

Coco Cake Cupcake Round-up: Last Week!

Fondant letter topped vanilla cupcakes for Jenny, for her friend Ken!

I love laying out the lettering and snapping a bird's eye view photo!

A single E... atop a fluffy vanilla buttercream swirl!

A different view of Ken's cupcakes...

Hot pink vanilla buttercream topped dark choco cupcakes!

The ethereal light of the cupcake gods... shinin' like a beacon of cupcake hope!

Cute little matching flag I made for the Dolltopia book launch in Vancouver!

Cute little skull cupcakes for Cannon's Halloween birthday party!

Hand drawn white fondant skulls, horror "bruise" colored buttercream, orange liners!

Marina ordered these for a baby shower: Perfectly pretty light green buttercream topped cupcakes; 5 teddies for the kids!

Teddy Bear Ted!

It was a tizzy of a week, especially the weekend... so many lovely cupcakes being pumped out of the Coco Cake headquarters! Above, a collection of some of my work from the past week!

Phewf. On Halloween day, not only did I have major cupcakes to create, but I also performed with my art duo GUIMAUVES for a kid's Halloween show, plus I worked until 1130pm.. and then went out after to see my dear pal Amber sing in Black Mountain at the Rickshaw in Vancouver!! I'm a maniac!!

STAY TUNED for a post on my latest Where The Wild Things Are cupcakes and cake... EEKS so cute... they turned out awesome!!

Howdy, Pumpkin!

You didn't think old Coco Cake had forgotten about Halloween, did you? Lookit these cute little orange sugar sprinkle-dipped pumpkin cupcakes! Delightful, rich dark chocolate cupcakes with generous blobs of orange tinted vanilla buttercream dipped in orange sparkly sprinkles and topped with Lindt chocolate stems or funny chocolate faces and green sugar fondant leaves. Michael ordered these for an afternoon TGIF office party! Cute!!!

And... look at my adorable nephew Brody in his fishie costume!! Dyin' of cuteness here... !

Happy Halloween everyone!