Get Your Bunny On For Easter! Bunny Cake + Bunny Cake Toppers

I got pretty bunny-ish this April with some cute bunny buddies. Learn to make this crazy cute bunny cake over on my post for Craftsy!Check it out here: How To Make An Easter Bunny Cake!

And talk about party animals. These simple and adorable bunny bow tie cake toppers are a cool breeze on a hot day to make - the whole bow tie bunny cake topper DIY is on Handmade Charlotte! Hop on over for the full tutorial! Sweet for Easter or for a bunny themed first birthday party.

Happy Easter, cake pals!

xo Lyndsay

Arr arr! Make A Baby Seal Cake!

Heehee! I've never eaten real baby seal... that seems very, very wrong. However, a cake made to look like a baby seal? That's just right! Click on over to my baby seal cake DIY at Handmade Charlotte.

Fuzzy Grey Mouse Cake DIY

Get your squeak on (Lyndsay? Is that even a saying at ALL?) with this cutie pie grey mouse cake DIY! I think this mouse cake would be best served with a sideboard of cheese. Yes, a sideboard. Not a stingy little wooden board, guys. We need mountains of cheese.

I wasn't born with an obsessive love of cheese like my husband was - my mom was a fan of slicing huge blocks of orange cheddar and placing those in our sandwiches along with lettuce and black forest ham. I knew cheddar, brie and havarti. Not until I married my cheese mongering husband did I learn how vast and truly WONDERFUL the world of cheese is! Gouda, gruyere, raclette - I love a good cheese party. So yes, I would highly recommend a mouse and cheese themed birthday party. It just seems right.

As for the dessert - scurry on over to Handmade Charlotte for how to make a fuzzy mouse cake!

xo Lyndsay

Eeks! Pink Heart Mouse Cake + Spell Your Cupcakes Love

I think my brain is programmed to see shapes as potential animal face cakes. I guess animal face cakes are kind of my delightful little cakey obsession. Not a terrible thing to be obsessed with - better than crystal meth or eating slugs, right? So when I finally bought myself one of those heart shaped cake pans in preparation for some Valentines heart-caked DIY insanity, I immediately saw two giant mouse ears and BLAMMO this kind of adorable pink heart mouse cake came to mind. Check out the whole squeaky clean DIY over at Handmade Charlotte!  

Feeling too absurdly lazy to want to procure a heart shaped cake pan and do all of that jazzy mousey piping? Here's a super simple heart-day idea: spell out some cute and non creepy greeting with delicious little mini cupcakes. If the apple of your eye doesn't think this is the cutest display of niceness and let's-get-to-know-each-other romance ever, then you should run the other way because only crazy people don't like cake! Also: old marrieds like myself can get a little jolt of romance from this kind of thing too. Everyone wins!

Ideas of things you can spell with mini cupcakes: 

1. YOU'RE MY LADY
2. HOPE YOU LIKE MINI CUPCAKES
3. HOW COOL AM I THAT I MADE YOU THIS NICE TREAT? LET'S GO OUT
4. YOU'RE ATTRACTIVE TO ME
5. HELLO, KITTY!
6. RAOWR! (this is if you're feeling extra feisty)
7. HI
8. LOVE YOU TO THE CORNER STORE AND BACK x INFINITY 
9. WE'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR 14 YEARS BUT YOU'RE STILL CUTE, BALD AND ALL
10. MON PETIT CHERI 

I chose "hi" because it's pleasantly innocuous and it let's the ruffly minis do the talking, ya know? But feel free to go wild. 

xo Lyndsay 

Polar Bear Cake DIY for Handmade Charlotte

Hellllo there, polar bear face cake with delightful fish dinner ready to be snacked on! This polar bear cake would be so cool (heh heh) for a kid's Arctic themed birthday party, right? Check out my DIY polar bear cake over at Handmade Charlotte for this beary nice cake idea. 

I think it's so fun to think about birthday party themes for Teddy's future birthdays. But who the heck knows what he'll be into each year... I can't realistically force him into having a cute Marimekko vintage car wallpaper themed party or pink French poodle party, can I? I hope I can steer him far away from video games... but I know how unrealistic that might be... well at least I hope he is interested in art and crafting - he already loves music and is very taken by instruments, so that's a plus!

Happy new year, everyone! All the very best for a sweet 2014. I've got a mega Top Cakes of 2013 post coming up with loads of cakey eye candy ... so do come back and visit soon!

xo Lyndsay 

Melted Snowman Cake DIY

This guy! I love this melted snowman face. I was pretty much chuckling away while I was making this. I've seen this idea on sugar cookies before but hadn't yet seen it on a cake. Poor dude. Get the full tutorial for this DIY melted snowman cake over at Handmade Charlotte.

I would be so stoked if this guy became part of a family's yearly repertoire: "Mom's busting out the melted Frosty cake again this year for Christmas Eve!" I can't wait for my Teddy to have Christmas memories. We put up our Charlie Brown tree this past weekend and he can't stop pointing at the Banquet Atelier letterpress star and owl ornaments shouting "cahhr!" and "owrrrlee!" Makes me so happy.

Do you have any holiday cakes or cookies you make every year?

Happy Baking, cake pals! See you soon.

xo Lyndsay  

DIY ABC Stencil Cake + More Cakey Times

Loving this super cute, bright and cheery ABC stencil cake I made over at Handmade Charlotte! Perfect for a kiddo's birthday party - make 'em learn while they're eating their cake, right?

This is a fun post I wrote for Craftsy on how to use social media for your cake business! I hope you find some fun and jazzy tips in it. Let me know what you think! As I'm sure you know, I think social media is just too much fun - I love interacting with new friends and cake fans. I've met a lot of great people through it and I encourage you to use it for any type of business or just for pleasure.

I also wrote a post on Finding Your Niche within the cake design world - however, I think it can apply to all aspects of art and design! Check out my Craftsy post on Finding Your Niche here.

A few more posts for Craftsy:

Illustration based cakes - I am in love with some of these awesome drawing and illustration inspired cakes. Reminds me of my graphic novel/comic hoarding days.

Vintage Cake Design: Birdcage cakes. You'll be blown away by some of these birdy cutie beauties!

Plus, my super cute JOY silver fringe letter DIY and peppermint buttercream cake is featured on Poppytalk's 10 Festive Party Cake Ideas - click through to see all the MEGA cute holiday themed cake ideas she's rounded up for your holiday fetes. I have so many already on my Coco Cake Land Pinterest boards!

Happy Friday, everyone! Are you getting in the holiday swing of things yet?? 

xo Lyndsay

Cupcake photos by Amy Pelletier. All other photos by me! :)

Raindrop and Cloud Cupcake Toppers

File under: easy town. I am in love with the idea of funny, original and possibly silly birthday party themes - how about a weather themed party? Raindrop and cloud garland, a pinata made to look like a big ball of sun, cloud cookies and these simple raindrop and cloud cupcake toppers.

Find the whole raindrop and cloud cupcake topper DIY over on Handmade Charlotte.

What was your most successful party theme? Do tell -and leave me a link to your party - I wanna see! :)

xo Lyndsay

Gray Owl Cake DIY for Handmade Charlotte

Mr.Gray Owl in the houuuussse! I made this adorable gray owl cake DIY for Handmade Charlotte - click on over to Handmade Charlotte for the whole DIY. He would be an adorable addition to the Thanksgiving table, or the centrepiece for an owl or woodland themed birthday party. 

You can find me in a few other spots this week, too: 

My post on cool monogram themed cakes on Craftsy

My post on how to style cakes for photography on Craftsy 

Happy weekend to you all - see you real soon, cake pals!

xo Lyndsay

Happy Halloween! Halloween Cake Round-up

Cute Dracula cake DIY!

Mutant bunny cake DIY for Handmade Charlotte!

Scaredy cat cake toppers for Poppytalk!

Paper plate animal mask DIY for Shop Sweet Lulu!

Mellow mushroom cupcake toppers for Handmade Charlotte

Mini monster eyeball cupcakes - full DIY on Craftsy.com!

Lots of fun Halloween cakey times came out of Coco Cake Land this past month - I had a blast making it all! Happy Halloween, cake pals - hope you have a safe and fun Halloween.

See ya soon!

xo Lyndsay 

Halloween Cake: Mutant Bunny Cake DIY

Oooh I made this hilariously deviously cute Halloween themed cake DIY for Handmade Charlotte! Mutant bunny cake! This will jazz up your Halloween table big time, guys. Let me know if you try it!

Full tutorial over on my mutant bunny cake DIY post at Handmade Charlotte.

 xo Lyndsay

Toadstool Mushroom Cake Topper DIY - Handmade Charlotte

We're shrooming and zooming all the way into wet and damp Fall with these cute as can be toadstool mushroom cake topper buddies! Go take a look-see at the full toadstool mushroom cake topper DIY over at my post on Handmade Charlotte! Wheeeee!

I went on a mushroom picking hunt a few years ago with some good friends ... we were trying to find the great matsutake Japanese pine mushroom ... the most delicious of mushrooms. If you want to read about our damp and fun time, go here! 

See you real soon, cake pals!

xo Lyndsay 

Lamb Cake DIY on Handmade Charlotte

I'm so excited to announce that I will be a regular contributor to the cutest DIY/design blog, Handmade Charlotte! Hooray! My first post is this fluffy lamb cake DIY - please visit my post on Handmade Charlotte for the full tutorial. Hope you like it! 

xo Lyndsay