Nadine & Adrian's Gorgeous Peacock Themed Wedding!

Nadine and Adrian were just the sweetest, nicest and cutest couple. I will hopefully add some photos of their gorgeous and lovingly designed actual wedding soon, both their wedding outfits were incredible... but for now, here are the cakes I made for their beautiful Sunday evening wedding party here in Vancouver! The buzz and excitement was felt in the room when I came to set up the cakes... peacock themed with a 20's meets 50's twist. The early evening sun was peering in to Heritage Hall, everyone smiling and in perfect and excited moods!

I loved how the cakes turned out: Brown Velour (dark chocolate with vanilla creamcheese frosting) in blue, green and damask cupcake liners, and two tone peacock-colored vanilla cupcake rosettes to echo the design of the decor and colour theme of the event. Nadine dropped off peacock feathers for me to use in the cutting cake, so I trimmed and washed them and used them as toppers, along with a little handmade flag, some ribbon and a craft paper covered cake board!

Ah, love! Peacock themed love!! :)

Thank You, Life! & Cupcakes...

While waiting for our plane back to Vancouver at the Los Angeles airport a few weeks ago, I impulse-bought Dave Eggers' book "What Is The What", a memoir of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who, at seven years old, flees his village which is under attack, and walks with a group of young boys to the eventual safety of Kenya. On the way, they are targeted, murdered, eaten by lions, and all hope is lost that Achak's entire family has been massacred. A 7 year old boy family-less and alone walking across Africa, experiencing atrocity after atrocity, yet Achak grows into an upstanding citizen who eventually makes it to the United States to start a new life. Not exactly bedtime reading but I did happen to read it before bed each night.

I closed the book last night after reading the last page and thought about how lucky I was, and how thankful I felt for everything that I have...

On a Coco Cake related note, I made 20 DOZEN of these Thank You cupcakes for Elsa and Scott's dental office! They wanted to say thank you to many other dental offices that they work with which I thought was a pretty awesome gesture. I made vanilla cupcakes with pink vanilla buttercream, dark chocolate cupcakes and coconut cupcakes with creamcheese frosting and toasted coconut! A yummy trio of cupcakes and the word is the cupcakes were a major hit! Hooray!

Bonjour, Mon Cow!

Cute cow cake I made for Matt, who ordered it for his fine lady Mon's birthday... Dark chocolate cake with vanilla creamcheese frosting, covered and decorated in fondant! I love the matchy matchy covered cake board, party flag and pretty ribbon around Mon Cow's neck...

Heh Heh!

Lookit what happened to Coco Cake sole proprietor L.K.Sung recently here in Vancouver! Too surreal not to share!

Lovely Lime Cupcakes!

I experimented with making lime cupcakes the other day for my dad's sablefish BBQ Celebrate Life: Vancouver Edition party. I really didn't measure the amount of lime zest or juice, I just used up all the limes I had bought recently! The result was a very delightful lime cake, the lime really shone through! I paired it with vanilla creamcheese frosting (I haven't found one cupcake that doesn't work with this frosting thusfar!), dipped it in toasted coconut and topped it with a fresh raspberry.

Party guests gave it the thumbs up!