Disco Cupcakes!

After making sweet little cupcakes for her little cutie Juma's birthday, Sarah contacted me to make cupcakes for her son Kai's disco themed birthday!

This was a bit of a conceptual challenge. How to create cupcakes for a disco-themed party? My initial idea was to try and make a sparkly frosting dome on each cupcake to resemble a disco ball. Then I thought, how about disco ball cupcake toppers? I loved how the silver circle cupcake toppers turned out. Plus, edible sparkly silver sprinkles and colorful cupcake liners gave it all a mega party vibe!

Isn't Kai the birthday boy (last picture -- photo by Pooya Nabei Photography) just the cutest? I loved this birthday theme! So much fun!

Happy Birthday Kai!

"Remarkable" Cupcakes & Cake!

Another great order from a cool campaign -- getting people to see the light of credit unions. My older sis Shelley has always been the most financially forward-thinking of my sisters -- putting away money all the time, saving, investing, etc... for years she badgered me to switch to a credit union from our soul-sucking bank and I finally did a few years ago and I have saved so much dough since. No pesky fees! Haha.

Anyhoo... Michelle from the Credit Unions of BC contacted good old Coco Cake HQ to make thank you cupcakey gifts for the wonderful people that developed their fun new ad campaign, "Be Remarkable." Check out the awesome stop-motion animation videos here!

The videos are hilarious... they feature farm animals, tigers, robots, pretty much anything. Michelle wanted to do a main cake and matching cupcakes, as well as cupcakes that spelled out BE REMARKABLE (which incidentally fit perfectly on 1 dozen cupcakes!)

Thanks so much for this fun order Michelle. Hope they were a hit!

Doggone It: Jet Pet Resort Opening & Coco Cake!

What a fun order... oodles of cupcakes for the celebration opening of Jet Pet Resort, a new... yes... luxury pet hotel located in Richmond, BC! When you walk into this place it's quite surreal ... the front lobby is like a boutique hotel. Sparkling chandeliers, Juicy Couture pet-wear for sale and a plush setting. Then you walk into the main area and it's built like a film set! Faux exterior brownstones, a pet spa, a central courtyard area in the middle for dog-play, and outdoor area for exercise and fun, and many rooms for your beloved pet's comfortable overnight stays!!

Visiting Jet Pet made me miss all my pets that have long passed into Pet Heaven... or Rainbow Bridge, as some say! Our beloved family dog, Woody the boxer... my hilarious and dear little cat Coco who was with me through all my formative years, as I got her from the SPCA when I was 19! (she inspired my business name... though I have always loved the name Coco...) and more recently, our sweet fatcat ChubChub. I am sad I no longer have any pets of my own but we hope to get another pet one day in the future... !

For Jet Pet, I made chocolate and vanilla cupcakes in red and white striped liners, with grey, white and black accents including grey and white FUR buttercream! Many thanks go out to Lisa, Cate and Cam for having Coco Cake as a part of the fun... and all the very best to the success of Jet Pet! :)

Pale Palette Perfection at Kate & Chris's Wedding!

Kate was a very astute bride in her sense of design and colour! I loved working with her pretty colour palette of white, grey, green and lavender. A slew of rainy days bookended Chris and Kate's sunny late September wedding -- pretty amazing and flukey to have a small block of sun amidst days and days of grey rain!

The cupcakes were white vanilla buttercream rose topped raspberry jam filled vanilla cupcakes, dark chocolate cupcakes with vanilla creamcheese frosting (some tinted lavender) and dark chocolate cupcakes with pale green rosette buttercream, all in silver cupcake liners. The cake was a dark chocolate cake covered in fondant with quilting and pearling, and a simple grey fondant ribbon trim with mini bow!

Matching the colours to the paper colour swatches reminded me of mixing colours in art school... !

Congratulations Kate & Chris! ^_^

Smash!! Annie & Luke smash the heck out of a Coco Cake

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?

If you place a cake in front of a baby, will they smash it to pieces?

This is a question I am curious about now! I made a vegan vanilla "dotty" covered cake for Erin for her sweet little twins' 1st birthday photo shoot with fantastic baby photographer Jillian Kirby. Having been an auntie three times over now and seen the nutty little things my niece and nephews do, I have certainly noticed that babies like to: poke stuff, touch stuff, throw stuff, eat stuff (even nonedible stuff)... would all babies poke and prod a cake, and end up smashing a cake?? Baby Psychology 101!

Happy Birthday Annie & Luke!