Blim Art Market This Sunday October 18th!

This Sunday, October 18th, for all you Vancouverites is the Blim Art Market once again! Coco Cake cupcakes will be for sale starting at 11am until 3pm (or until we sell out.) Please arrive early to avoid sad un-cupcakeness! Pre-orders for a 4 cupcake tasting box ($12) or a 1 dozen cupcake box ($36) can be made up until Saturday at 4pm, by emailing me here: lyndsay@cococake.com

This month's Coco Cake Cupcake flavours:

Lemon Love, lemon cake with lemon creamcheese frosting
Buttermilk Vanilla Bean, vanilla buttercream
Dark chocolate with chocolate buttercream, belgian chocolate sprinkles
Matcha green tea buttercream topped vanilla bean cupcakes
Coconut Dream: coconut cupcake with creamcheese frosting, topped with toasted coconut!
Chocolate ganache, raspberry jam (vegan)

Hooray! Hope to see you all there for an in-person high five!

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!!! :)

Where The Wild Things Are Cake for Vancouver Advance Screening!

Well allllllright! Remember this crazy cake I made all the way back in March for the lovely Lisa's birthday? Ever since hype for the Where The Wild Things Are movie started trickling out, the Moishe cake I designed based on Maurice Sendak's awesome artwork has been ripping around Internet Town with lots of super nice praise and comments! Thanks so much everyone!! But the coolest part... Justine, an intern at Warner Brothers Vancouver (pictured above on the left, standing with yours truly), found the cake online too... and contacted little old Coco Cake to make a giant version of the cake for the Vancouver advance screening premiere! Hooray!!

The screening was so much fun-- lots of kids running around all hopped up on movie candy, crowding around the Coco Cake table where the 14 inch round Moishe cake was hanging around! Er, yes that is a Where The Wild Things Are Hummer also... Plus, the excitement of being one of the first people to view the film in our city-- pretty crazy movie! Our conversation on the ride home was that it was totally enjoyable, a little bit dark for children but one of those movies where if you saw it as a kid, it might slightly terrify you but would definitely resonate as one of those movies you'd remember as an adult. Sort of like ET THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL for me. TERRIFYING for a little 7 year old Chinese girl with a bowl cut. TERRIFIED to ever go into the bathroom again, worried ET would be DEAD and all white and powdery lying in there on the cold tile. Eeks, it still scares me... Haha...

We also loved how rambunctious the kid Max was in the movie, and how it encouraged kids to go outside, play in nature, use their imagination and even get *gasp* hurt!! Life's all about skinning your knees and trying new things, having fun and exploring!

Wonderful fellow cake makers, if you want to try this design, please link back to my blog, it would be much appreciated. Yay Moishe cake!!! I like how this one turned out extra hairy!!! :)

Thank You!

It's Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada... so here is a big old THANK YOU to all my loyal blog readers, Coco Cake fans, Coco Cake cupcake munchers, fellow small business/art/craft friends and all the wonderful people who help me so much with my business.

Thank you to my honeybun Richie, who helps me so much with absolutely everything, whether it's Coco Cake related or not. Thank you to my amazing family, especially my dad Gerry Sung a.k.a gls82, who folds boxes, helps with my accounting, goes on coconut milk runs for me whenever I need him. And my mom, Poh poh, and super awesome sisters, and my Trawick in-laws for all of their love and support!

Thank you to all of my wonderful good friends, who constantly provide me with support and fun times, and plenty of ears for me to bounce ideas off of.

And high-five through the computer to all of my Coco Cake blog readers and fans! You're the best!!! :) Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

(Pictured above: Thank You cupcakes I made, ordered by Tara, for the wonderful peeps at Fjord, who got to party it up at Commodore bowling lanes and eat cupcakes!)

White Chocolate Buttercream, Raspberry Jam, Vanilla Bean Cake

For my dear sis Shelley's birthday, I made this buttermilk vanilla bean triple layer cake, with raspberry jam filling and white chocolate buttercream, sprinkled with white chocolate shavings! I used my rich Callebaut white chocolate and used only egg whites in this cake for a very tender and extra-white crumb! Oh it was delicious.. the fragrant seeds from a whole vanilla bean and the smooth white chocolate buttercream! Shelley is the mommy to ridiculously adorable Kensie, pictured here!! Aiyeeee! So cute!

I totally loved how the cake flavours turned out, but I always think of white chocolate raspberry as a little bit 90's ?? But... I was still thinking of making this into a cupcake. Thoughts?