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 

Pink Tiger Cake + Mini Ruffly Cupcake Buddies

I kind of just want to cuddle this fluffy pink tiger face and give it a big old squeeze hug! But that's just not a cool idea! Especially since I have an aversion to food, namely dairy products, on my face.

Weird, yes. You won't see me indulging in a Cleopatra-inspired milk bath. Yuck!

Although since having baby Teddy in my life, "food on the face" has forcefully turned into a No Big Deal situation for me. Ha.

Back to the cake: very cute vanilla raspberry cake for little Angelina's 3rd birthday party, ordered by her Auntie Jenny! Angelina is a year of the tiger baby, hence the girly tiger cake. Love!

Happy birthday Angelina and thanks Jenny for the fun order!

xo Lyndsay

Cute Grassy Bunny Cake & Lavender Mini Cupcakes

I love this funny little cake with the mini white fondant bunny hiding in the grass! I love it especially too because it making it reminded me of how lucky I am to have such cool, caring and nice customers! I've made a few little numbers for the cake-loving Mack family over the years, and it was so nice to hear from Julie again! Her request: a bunny themed cake for a good friend's birthday, with lavender rosette mini cupcakes too. The cake was vanilla with raspberry jam filling and vanilla buttercream and I made a cute little colorful bunting to display on top of the cake, too. Love how a bunting can elevate a cake into a real party-time feel!

So Julie showed up to pick up the cake, and brought with her sweet presents for my almost 7-month-old baby Teddy! Soooo nice and thoughtful! We yacked it up for a good fifteen minutes, catching up and talking about baby stuff, and Julie held Teddy for a bit, too! He was pumped on his panda bear puffy book and cute owl blanket she brought... and I'm sure he drooled all over her!

Thank you so much Julie for the fun order, and again for the cute presents for Teddy!

xo Lyndsay

Ruffly Little Mini Baby Shower Cupcakes!

Cute little dark chocolate with vanilla buttercream mini cupcakes in a green and yellow colour palette made to celebrate the impending arrival of Marla and Arch's little baby girl! Wishing you guys all the best! Wild, beautiful times ahead!

xo Lyndsay

Pretty Pastel Minis for One Of A Few

Adorable Michelle has one of the coolest stores in town: One of a few, a place to find very lovely clothing chosen with a modern/always fashionable eye. To celebrate the opening of the vintage clothing pop-up shop Gypsy Market, Michelle ordered 100 mini vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream in a pale, pretty palette of pale lavender, pale pink and cream.

Lovely!

Dace 10th Anniversary Cupcakes!

Dace is one of my favourite Vancouver designers... her clothes are often described as "effortlessly chic", which I think is a pretty darn good description. Throw on anything Dace and suddenly your outfit is much cooler than it was before. Simple, but with beautiful "interest" accents such as a puff sleeve there, a drape here or a dart there, suddenly you're looking much more Euro/fashionable/minimalist edgy. Spring 2011 is looking very gorgeous with pale peach tones, light blues and lots of silk/cotton mixes.

Dace has been around for ten years too... I think this is an incredible milestone, especially in the fickle and scary fashion world! And the line continues to grow and mature, maintaining that nicely designed sophistication, that effortless chic, throw-on-and-go appeal.

Coco Cake did 200 mini cupcakes for the Dace 10th Anniversary/Spring 2011 preview party here in Vancouver. 200 mini boxes each packed with a cute little vanilla mini cupcake and a "10" flag. It was a fun party with so many lovely looking people swarming about. And wouldn't those adorable boxed cupcakes make the cutest little wedding favour ever? ;)

Congrats to Dace and all of her hardworking beauties! Here's to many more years of your lovely designs!

xo Lyndsay

Happy New Year!

Happy 2011 everyone! I just want to say thank you so much for taking the time to visit and read my blog... I wish I could meet all of you and high five you in person! Your support of Coco Cake in 2010 was really amazing and I do appreciate it. More fun and exciting times ahead for me and my little crazy cake world in 2011... stay tuned!

This was a beautiful, special wintry December wedding between two lovely people, Laura and Adam! Laura is the incredible Music Together teacher who teaches my nephews and niece about music, instruments, singing, sounds, sharing and family. I had the pleasure of sitting in on a class with my nephew Brody a year ago and it was so sweet, and fun... and I could see how the children adored Laura with her warm, open personality and her lovely singing voice. Laura and Adam requested a Bird singing to a Fish cake for their wedding cake! And with lovely, simple dark chocolate mini cupcakes in silver liners, with white blobettes of frosting and delicate little silver pearls to adorn them. A sweet winter-inspired wedding for a kind and loving couple.

All the best Laura and Adam! And Happy New Year to all!

xo Lyndsay

Baby Shower Mini Cupcakes with Custom Flags

These little custom made baby-faced cupcake toppers I made crack me up with their different expressions! These toppers are what makes the difference between regular little mini cupcakes and an extra special array of mini cupcakes! Nicole ordered these for her cousin's baby shower... vanilla mini cupcakes in silver liners with vanilla creamcheese frosting in pale green and pale yellow palettes.

Perfectly adorable!

Little Sailor-y Cupcakes For Foggy Book Launch!

For the launch of the adorable and wonderfully designed new children's book Foggy (by the lovely Robin and Judith, artists and designers extraordinaire), Collage Collage hosted a lovely interactive party! Visit here for all of the Foggy cuteness and details. And visit HERE to buy the book, or visit Collage Collage to pick up a copy!

Pretty Party

One of my very best friends, the one and only Amy P, got engaged on a recent trip to Mexico with her awesome guy, Stephen! Hooray! It only seemed right to throw her a special little engagement party, complete with pretty-bottled champagne, mini chocolate ganache cupcakes and salted black licorice, Amy's fave.

Aren't those little royal icing flowers so cute? They prettify absolutely anything. You could put them on a meatball and serve them at a tea party, that's how cute those little flowers are!!

Congratulations Burgertime!

xo Lyndsay