Happy Birthday Little Gorilla Cake

Omg cuteness alert - I loved making this cutie pie gorilla cake for Eidee's 1st birthday - it's based on the 1976 book Little Gorilla by Ruth Bornstein. It's such a sweet book ... and all the more special because we've been reading it to our little son Teddy since he was 3 months old. Teddy loved the animal pictures when he was tiny, and I'm pretty sure the book showed him what a "birthday cake" was all about - after reading it 500+ times to him, Teddy got that a birthday cake with candles meant that something special was happening! Pretty cute! We've gone through three of these - the first one got lost on a plane, the second was chewed up pretty badly and the third one's in pretty good shape...

This gorilla cake was coconut flavoured with chocolate buttercream and fondant details. I drew the little butterfly cake topper based on the pink butterfly that appears in the book! Loved it and didn't want to see it go! Haha. Cake nerd.

Thanks Marla and Arch for the sweet order - and happy 1st birthday Eidee!

xo Lyndsay 

Cakes

Happy summer, my beautiful Coco Cake Land friends! I just came back from two weeks on a tiny populated gulf island here in British Columbia. I managed to make one cake while I was there, a no sugar, no dairy banana spelt cake for my now 10 month old Teddy to try! Um, it was gross. I dunno what happened. But that's okay. Because I was on casual times relaxation island with zero percent cares and a hakuna matata attitude. 

Aren't these some lovely cakes? A tiny roundup of some cakes from the recent vaults. 

Hope everyone's well and good! See ya soon!

xo Lyndsay 

Coco Cake Cupcake Round-up! Yee-hawww

Birthday Hello Kitty buddy cupcakes...

Meow!!

Hee-larious monkey cake for Mike's birthday-- "call me" he says into the banana...

Dark chocolate with vanilla buttercream, purply blue tinted sugar fondant.

Before, above: and after, below!

Oh, and it's that little vixen Tinkerbell, made into a birthday cake for cute little Giselle! This cake reminds me of the days when I used to spend hours drawing fashion pictures when I was a kid...

Monkeyin' Around At Old Coco Cake HQ

Wheeee!! What fun... a beautiful color theme of pink, orange and brown made up this adorable baby shower cake and matching cupcakes-- with baby girl monkeys!! Kawaii!! Janice and Brent will be adopting a beautiful little girl from Vietnam, and have named her Jocelyn. The cake was chocolate with chocolate ganache filling and chocolate buttercream, covered in fondant; the cupcakes are Lemon Love, scrumptious lemon cake made with real lemon juice and lemon zest, and lemon creamcheese frosting. Yum!

I must have drawn about 30 monkey faces. They just kept looking like bears... until I realized--- I had to put the EARS down on the side of the head! Like humans! Not like teddy bears! Eeks... I was so happy with how it all turned out.

Congratulations on the new and wonderful excitement in your lives, Janice and Brent! Yay Baby Jocelyn!