A Whale Of A Cake: A Birthday Cake for James!

From James's mama Lisa:

"His most favourite thing is... orca whales! It is ridiculous how obsessed he is! I'm not sure exactly where this came from but he is cray for orcas! Blue balloons - when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday he told me a blue balloon! Adorbs." 

The guy is turning three years old. He is the cutest little munchkin with a truly sweet disposition and he likes to run around at top speed. 

Blue balloons and orca whales? Coco Cake can do that for ya, James! I made the orca whale out of rice krispie treats covered in fondant. 

Love how that nutty whale is waddling around on a big old pile of pretty blue vanilla buttercream.

Lisa tells me to watch out - Teddy's gonna be a running around nut, too!

Happy birthday, beautiful little guy! I love how he's happily holding his ballooons!

Thanks Lisa and Shawn for the fun order!

xo Lyndsay

Hello Lehlo!

How cute is my crafty art pal Joanne and her incredible design skills? I love parties with a beautiful design sense, and parties with serious cuteness... such as this whale invite! I made a dark chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling, with a little fondant whale in the color themes of red and blue, and mini dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache and colorful sprinkles.

Such a beautiful story too... Joanne's friends Julian and Catherine have adopted a baby from South Africa and have named him Lehlo... beautiful picture of the two of them cutting the Coco Cake whale-topped cake...! Amazing.

The last two pics (and the pic of the lovely couple smooching!) are ones Joanne took of the party... love the set-up, the heart cupcake pics, the goodie bags and the whale/heart theme everywhere!

Congratulations Julian and Catherine on the new addition to your "pod"!

xo

Moby Dick And Lobster Buddy Cupcakes!!

Oh this blue whale cake and matching red lobster cupcakes turned out soooo cute... I was so happy with them!! The blue whale is a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream, and the cupcakes are buttermilk vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream... !! My good friend Cindy Mochizuki, a truly excellent Vancouver artist working in multimedia projects and illustration, threw the most amazing seafood themed party for her boyfriend Marc's birthday. The theme was fish but you also had to dress up as a fish... ! Cindy sent me a really cute drawing she made of a blue whale and lobsters to be turned into some cake party times. The party itself was super awesome... fresh sashimi prepared by Cindy's dad, daikon and nori salad with sesame dressing, shabu shabu with tofu, pork and chicken, lovely cheese, sake, lobster flown all the way from New Brunswick by Marc's family!! Pretty cool!!!

Sadly, I did not have time to make a costume. I know, super lame, especially because I LOVE dressing up for stuff like this... but when I got to the party Cindy let me wear her big round tako yaki (octopus fritter) hat so all was well!!! :)