Autumn Love - Cake Romance!

It's been a busy beaver Fall for Coco Cake indeed. Here is a round-up of some Fall-in-love cakes and cupcakes... !

Lindsay and Greg's lovely, simple dark chocolate vegan and gluten free wedding cupcakes at the Brock House in Vancouver! I adore the uniformity, red color blast and cuteness a single berry topper can give to a grouping of lovely cupcakes.

An anniversary cake for one of my favourite wedding couples from last year, Jeanie and Ian!

And the sweetest card they gave me to thank me.
Yes, J uses a typewriter to write letters and cards... love it!

Denalda's 50th birthday bash at the Granville Island Hotel - loving how all of those lovely minis looked nestled closely on their stand - dark chocolate with vanilla buttercream, raspberry topped vanilla cupcakes with ruffle-puff frosting, and lemon cupcakes with lemon creamcheese frosting!

A green tea buttercream frosted, anko red bean filling cake for Pax's birthday!

Julie and David's foresty Fall wedding day at SFU's Diamond Alumni Center.
David made the cool stand!

Sweet little mini cupcakes for Natalie's 30th birthday at Canvas Lounge in Vancouver... a place where you can party and paint at the same time!

Thank you lovely Coco Cake customers!

See you all soon, blog world! Lots more to come! xo Lyndsay

Roxanne & Laura's Lavender + Green Rosette Wedding!

My fellow Canadians - we live in a pretty amazing country, don't we? I thank the stars every day for being able to live in my city of Vancouver, having a job I love (every job has their bad days, don't get me wrong!), surrounded by both serene nature and sparkly metropolis, amongst close family and dear friends, with food to eat, a roof over my head and people to love. Yes, I am a lucky woman.

Roxanne and Laura decided Vancouver wasn't half-bad either - they traveled all the way from New York, bringing along their close family and friends, to be with them as they tied the knot in our fair city on a sunny day in September! For their quaint reception at Seasons In The Park, I made a tower of pretty two-toned vanilla buttercream rosette cupcakes and dark chocolate with chocolate buttercream in their wedding colours of pale lavender and light green. Pretty cute! And lookit that view... I must say, Seasons In The Park , the restaurant on the hill in Queen Elizabeth Park, has some of the nicest and most helpful staff around. I just want to give a little shout-out to them! Also thanks to Dreamgroup Productions, who did a lovely job of making the wedding come together.

And to Roxanne and Laura, many congratulations and all the best in your new married life together!

Hooray! My Bro-in-law ties the knot!!

The Sunshine Coast is my future dream world. How amazing would it be to live there? So beautiful, so quiet, so lush with forests and ocean... a happy, bustling community, a lovely seaside small town feel, yet so close to the buzz and glittering lights of the city, just in case you went "The Shining" style stir-crazy with all that beauty and quiet...

So my brother-in-law Geoff got married!!! I call him Big Bro - because he is my brother (my only white brother!) and because he is 6 foot 7 - he is tall! And he married the most wonderful girl he could ever marry, the magical Monique, who I call MoMo. I can't help it. I develop nicknames for the people I like. It's just the way it is! Geoff and Monique had a beautiful get-away wedding in Egmont, and perhaps one of the most beautiful British Columbia places ever, thanks to the spectacular views - The Westcoast Wilderness Lodge. They were married on this huge deck with this bonkers gorgeous view... and the whole weekend felt like a super fun summer camp... the sun beat down during the day, it set over the ocean into the evening, and we partied into the night on that same deck, beverages flowing and music pumping, the clomping of heels to the beat and the clapping of hands. Late into the night the party ventured down through the forest with candle-lit lanterns to a nearby beach, where braver guests jumped into the cool water, swirling their arms to make phosphorescent angels in the dark...

And OF COURSE I made the cake and cupcakes!!! I based the cutting cake on Geoff and MoMo's wedding invitation, which they crafted themselves using stamps (so clever!). The theme of the wedding was nautical, as both G&M love the ocean and love to sail. I simply adored how the cupcakes turned out - so bright and colorful, but still nautical and summery! I think I will always in love with berry-topped cupcakes... The cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate buttercream, and raspberry jam filled vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and fresh berry!

The very nice and cool Jen from Powell River's Kennedy Photographik took photos, and has graciously allowed me to use them here! (Last two photos are by Coco Cake)

G&M, I just want to say how happy I am for you two - you guys make an amazing couple and I'm very excited to spend many fun times partying together for years and years to come!

xo Lyndsay

Happy (Stylish) Matrimony: Jenny & Alex!

Are you dying of cuteness? Those bird toppers? Yep. Insane cuteness alert... unfortunately I can't take credit for those birds - they were made by the very talented bride, Jenny!

I just loved working with Jenny - she was a super cool and friendly bride with the cutest vision for her wedding: a gorgeous palette of grey and purple, mixed with that dang adorable little birdie theme. Her groom was a really cool dude too.

Jenny requested Earl Grey cupcakes, lemon cupcakes and dark chocolate cupcakes with a lavender colored vanilla buttercream rosette design - I did it all up in silver and purple cupcake liners, along with an Earl Grey flavoured cutting cake with the birdies perched (heehee) on top.

The wedding reception was held outdoors under a giant tent on the lawn at Hart House in Burnaby, BC - a gorgeous venue overlooking Deer Lake. Love that Ikea frosty/artful snowball globe light and the purple lanterns, and the lush, colorful flowers!

Thanks so much Jenny and Alex - I really enjoyed working with you - here's to a lifetime of fun and love!

xo Lyndsay

Glorious Weddings!

Loved doing this gorgeous palette-coloured wedding for Leah and Yat. Another super cool fact: Leah loved my wooden cake stands and I suggested that perhaps Yat could put his skills to the test and make some! And he did, with flying colours!

Brown Velour cupcakes in silver liners, white cupcake liners for vanilla cupcakes in three frosting styles: pale sage rosette, pale peach rosette (so cute!) and white roses with green leaves... loved the combination of these four...

So pretty, so simple. Vanilla cupcake with vanilla buttercream rosette.

Yat! You are a superstar! Look at those awesome cedar cake stands!
I loved how woodsy rustic and romantic their wedding colours and design was.

Cupcakes and flowers... pretty good combo!

Cupcake flag!

The day's program, and some excellent wood shaved pencils!

Lush, romantic but rustic blooms. Perfect! Congrats Leah & Yat!

Laura and Matt's Brown Velour cutting cake, and Lemon Frill cupcakes with bright coloured liners and fondant daisies!

They did a tower of Lemon Frill and Brown Velour cupcakes, and lemon minis too!

300 minis in 3 flavours and styles for Puneet and Aman's engagement party! Coconut cupcakes with vanilla creamcheese frosting and white coconut in silver liners, dark chocolate minis with pale lavender dollop frosting and pink vanilla cupcakes with mini pink rosettes... !

Isn't she gorgeous? Yes, he is handsome too!

Loved how these all looked on the stand...

Chomp chomp! Many happy returns to all my brides and grooms! ... and still more to come! xo

Love Is In The Air...

Summer love! Summer is known for being the Time Of The Weddings. A busy beaver time for Coco Cake indeed... I will be posting some truly lovely weddings over the next week which I was lucky enough to be a part of! Here's to Summer Love!

Jen and boB's super cute gothic/dark wedding at the Teahouse in Stanley Park! A chocolate cutting cake with dark purple fondant, lavender cherry blossom tree with black flowers, black hearted cupcakes and raspberry topped jam filled vanilla cupcakes...!

Sara and Herman's adorable sweets table, complete with Coco Cake mini cupcakes and cutting cake! Bride made the super cute cake toppers!

Ruffle-puff mini vanilla wedding anniversary cake for the super sweet Erin & Lenny! They welcomed a beautiful baby girl - Penelope Sloan - into their lives 8 weeks ago! Love!

Bonnie and Ken givin'er on the dance floor! Loved their modern, sweet wedding colours, as reflected in the mega Coco Cake cupcake tower and cutting cake! Their cupcakes were Berry Good cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, and matcha green tea cupcakes with vanilla frosting. B&K photos by the amazing Blue Olive Photography!

and... Plenty more to come this week on the Coco Cake blog... stick around! xo