Super Gorgeous Wedding Cupcakes!

After a stylish Vegas wedding, Maryanne and Dennis' wedding reception was held today on this beautiful, hot Vancouver afternoon! A few years ago my oldest sis (now mommy to the ridiculously cute and hilarious Brody!) Leanne had her stagette party in Vegas. Ten or twelve of us descended upon Paris Hotel for a weekend of, let's say "eye-opening!" experiences!! It was tons of fun!

Maryanne obviously has great taste because she chose the cutest combination of cupcakes for her party: Coconut Dream, Lemon Love with lemon buttercream, chocolate buttercream cupcakes with Belgian chocolate sprinkles, and vanilla cupcakes with vanilla creamcheese frosting and silver dragees! I thought all these flavours looked so gorgeous together! I love how WILD Coconut Dream seems. Like Albert Einstein hair.

Congratulations you two! Now you have a fun place to visit on every anniversary-- Vegas!!

Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

I had a super duper craving for banana chocolate chip SOMETHING. And, since I was having my work pals over for a BBQ, I thought-- well heck! There are two brown and spotty bananas attracting fruit flies over there. I'm gonna show those bananas a thing or two. I quickly made up a recipe using the basics-- beat butter and sugar, add banana, add eggs and vanilla, add dry ingredients, beat on low until blended... then I threw in the rest of a huge bag of chocolate chips. No measuring here. A minute after they came out of the oven I took a little knife and cut into one. Then I ate one. Then I covered the cupcakes with chocolate ganache, and topped with a fresh raspberry. Then I ate another one.

"SELF CONTROL!" Nice one Lyndsay... !!! Over the winter I developed what I called my "buttercream belly", from tasting so many of my own little baked goods. This last month I've been huffing it big time at the gym and outdoors trying to whittle the old buttercream belly down. Meh, sometimes you just can't help but chomp two cupcakes in a row. And I'll have one later for dessert, heehee!!

Will this flavour make it into the Coco Cake Cupcakes Hall Of Fame and Order Page? I gotta revise and test it a bunch first!!!

Bye for now,

xo

Matcha Green Tea Buttercream Cupcakes!

Extreme deliciousness alert: if you are bonkers for green tea like meeeee, you will love Coco Cake Cupcakes' very pretty matcha green tea buttercream topped chocolate cupcakes. Delightfully delicous and naturally green from the real matcha green tea paste I made!!! I am in love with these little brown and white stripey cupcake liners too, and the Belgian dark chocolate sprinkles on top! These puppies have since been added to the Coco Cake cupcake flavour lineup, and will be updated soon-ish on my new website! (coming soon when I have time to finish it, oh boy...)

Blue Pup, Little Flower, Cupcake Party

Yuki phoned me to request something special for her sister's baby shower, so I came up with a cute little colour palette and theme of blue dogs and sky blue, white and yellow, to match her very lemony Lemon Love Coco Cake cupcakes!

I just love how the light blue and white lettering turned out... kawaii!! Best of luck to your sister, Yuki!

Fish and Chips, Cute Wedding At The Beach!

Drive about 40 minutes outside of Vancouver and you can get to so many crazy little destinations. Crescent Beach is in White Rock and it's where we would sometimes go when we were kids to go crabbing and play in the sand and eat fish and chips at the beach. There is an adorable little strip of street at the end of "Crescent Street" which has an organic cafe and grocer, ice cream shops, fish and chips shops and a few nice looking bistros. This was the setting for Hayhlee and Mitch's wedding. I met Hayhlee first at Indie I Do at my Coco Cake cupcake booth, and she was very cute and sweet! The wedding colour palette was purple and green, a great combo I thought!! Hayhlee sent me two samples of her wedding invitation to show me the colours; I ended up using the paper to make two cute little flags for her cupcakes.

Hayhlee requested mini chocolate cupcakes, some frosted with peppermint buttercream, and some frosted with creamcheese frosting-- a delicious combination! The cupcakes were on display, but were also the wedding favour, housed in little mini takeout boxes at the end of the night!

Congratulations Hayhlee and Mitch!!