Lovely Milky Black Tea Cupcakes!

A lovely weekend... I experimented with a new flavour creation, milky black tea cupcakes. The result was a subtle, milky tea flavoured cupcake with a milky-tea buttercream. Maybe I should call them Milky Tea cupcakes? I modified a wonderful recipe from the book Sky High Cakes-- I love this book. The photographs and design elements are beautiful and any cake I've made from this book has had the most wonderful, tender crumb.

These cutie little milky black tea buttercream topped tea cupcakes I made partially for a trade with my friend Claire of My Favourite Dress-- go to her etsy for the cutest, finely made things imaginable. She has a lovely sense of craftswomanship to her products too. I got the most beautiful scalloped bunting in shades of blue vintage materials, which I will use to hang up for my husband's upcoming birthday party.

My intention was also to make the cupcakes for my friend Bobbi's champagne engagement party! Hooray! So much mileage out of these delightful little cupcakes... ! :)

Been Around The World Cupcakes...!

A wonderful Coco Cake cupcake and cake-topped tower for my sister's father-in-law! Mr.Cole turned 70 and to celebrate, his family threw him a lovely party! Mr.Cole loves to travel, and his goal is to completely travel the world and visit each continent by air, land and sea. Pretty amazing! I made buttermilk vanilla cupcakes with light blue tinted vanilla buttercream, and Lemon Frill cupcakes-- lemon cupcakes with lemon creamcheese frosting! Everything was matchy matchy in green stripes, blue plaid and bright blue mini cupcake liners! I made flags for each city Mr.Cole has visited and with the help of my geographically inclined husband Rich, created the world globe cake out of fondant! Thanks Richie for your help, as usual! xo

I am an extremely lucky person because I really have gotten to see the world--family trips to China and Hong Kong as a young girl, a trip to Japan to visit my sis and my one of my besties Tara, a trip to Europe touring and playing music in a huge double decker bus that had 15 bunks, touring North America playing music many times with friends... sailing in the British Virgin Islands on our honeymoon...

The world still boggles my fragile little mind. I like the fact that the blogging world has given me internet friends from all over the world! Glimpses into people's lives and tons of inspiration in Australia, the UK, Singapore, Greece, all over the States of course, other cities in Canada including Toronto and Montreal and even people in my own city I have met through my blog and my cupcakeing! If you haven't said hi before in my comments, please do so, and I would love to know who you are and where you are writing from!

and... a Happy Happy 70th birthday to Mr.Cole! He is pictured above with Mrs. Cole and the newest addition to their family, granddaughter baby Kensie!

Berry Good Thank You!

Sweet Kim from Flipside Creative (remember her? She ordered these Toki Doki cupcakes a while back?) ordered two dozen pretty little Berry Good purple and white cupcakes as a thank you gift for a printshop...

Tranformers Cake and Cupcakes for Matthew!

I just love Matthew, Nathan and Ryan! They are the beautiful and hilariously active three little sons of our good family friends Jason and Susan. These days Matthew and Nathan are both obsessed with TRANSFORMERS! And for good reason... Transformers really are pretty cool! Even I was into Transformers when I was a kid!! Yes, I was a tomboy. I was the daughter who would go to car shows with my dad and smash spiders dead with my fist wearing brown corduoroy pants. I had Optimus Prime and I had this awesome one that was like a 1950s rockabilly turquoise Chevy with FLAMES on it. Oh wait, I think that was MASK.

Aren't Matthew and Nathan the CUTEST? Look at how excited they are-- and look at how lucky they are-- their parents decked out their nice living room head to toe in TRANSFORMERS! I love it! I made a dark chocolate cake filled with chocolate ganache, frosted in vanilla buttercream and covered and decorated in fondant. The cupcakes were also chocolate, with red and blue "Optimus Prime" colours! I also made it look like the grey Transformers logo guy was saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I thought the paper I chose looked very "Max Headroom!"

Happy Birthday dear Matthew! Hope you had a super fun birthday!!

Coco Cake Cupcakes Holiday Special!

"It's the most wonderful time.... of the year!" I love the holidays. Cold weather, warm hats, mittens, scarves, an excuse to make hot chocolate on the stovetop, bake pies, make cookies.. spend time with family and friends, wear sparkly fun cocktail dresses and drink eggnog... I used to get to excited when I saw that there was eggnog in our fridge growing up... sometimes I would fill a tall glass all the way to the top and GLUG GLUG GLUG like a little eggnog piglet! Only once a year did that special milk carton show up... !

So my Coco Cake holiday flavours this year-- the first is pretty holiday-ish, and one that was a real hit last year- dark chocolate cupcakes with white peppermint buttercream topped with candy cane shard! But, my second flavour... is a spicy yummy Chai Masala cupcake with creamcheese frosting! Hooray! Mostly because I want to eat that flavour myself... heehee!!

And now I present...

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COCO CAKE HOLIDAY DUO BOXES! 2 boxes total- 1 dozen of each flavour-for $75. The perfect hostess gift! Show up at your holiday parties with these boxes and they'll be hustling you through the door straight to the mistletoe! Or, choose 1 mixed box of the two holiday flavours for $40!

Pick ups ONLY the following dates: Friday December 11 or Saturday December 12 between 3 and 6pm sharp and Friday Dec 18 or Saturday December 19 between 3 and 7pm sharp.

Dark chocolate cupcake with white peppermint buttercream, finished with candy cane shards in candy cane striped liners, AND... a spicy holiday treat: Chai masala cupcake with delectable creamcheese frosting in dark brown liners and festive flag.

Order must be placed by Wednesday, December 9th or Wednesday, December 16th by emailing lyndsay@cococake.com with HOLIDAY SPECIAL in the subject line.

Coco Cake would like to thank you for all of your support in 2009! Happy Holidays!