WOOF! Amy's "Dogs Playing Poker" Birthday!

My little buddy! FluffPup the peanut butter frosting dog!

The party inspiration. Dogs playing poker poster.

I made dog masks out of felt for my hubby and I!

The ever-adorable birthday girl Amy,
and Coco Cake Boss as a jaunty JAZZ DOG

A slice o' fun!

Hangin' with Amy's cat Dooblevay!
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One of my best friends, the crazy talented Amy P, had a "dogs playing poker" themed birthday party, based on that ridiculously amazing poster from the 1980s!! So as a surprise I made her a dark chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling and PEANUT BUTTER frosting. Extreme deliciousness alert! And... it was also vegan, as she can't eat dairy!

I tried to base the dog on the supercute little pup from the hilarious movie Best In Show. I made dog masks for Rich and I out of some leftover felt and a few spare headbands I had lying around! Et voila... maybe the scariest dog masks ever?? I tried to make them cute but really, when you cut holes out of anything and put it on your face... horror movie material!

I went for a "jaunty jazz dancer dog" look with a black and white themed outfit with white gloves... ! The last pic is of Rich and I posing with Amy's amazing fatcat Dooblevay!

Happy Birthday Amy!! Hope you have an amazing year!! xo

Coco Cake October Round-up!

Eekers! So many cakes in the last while. Here is a selection of some recent Coco Cakeing here at Coco Cake HQ.

A Hello Kitty themed cake for Isabelle, sailing themed cakes for Maleah's mom's 60th birthday party, Sesame Street cuties for little Hazel, rock star themed cupcakes for Lei-Lei's birthday, and a cute Smile themed cake for Jaylyn's 10th birthday!!

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Boo-yah!! Happy Halloween Coco Cakers!

An adorable and fun last minute order from Andrea, ordered for her "moms and tots" Halloween bash. So cute. Andrea was hoping for a modern take on a Halloweeny-type cupcake... so we went with some jackolanterns and a clean, modern, white and ghosty look: white fondant "BOO" engraved cupcakes! The cupcakes were the ever-popular Brown Velour flavour -- dark chocolate cupcake with vanilla creamcheese frosting. My personal favourite. I could sit on the couch and hoover them if I let myself!! But I won't, gosh darnit.

This year I am so excited about Halloween day... I booked the whole day off so I could spend it with my niece and nephews!! I'm planning on making some wicked Halloween treats and then going trick-or-treating with them. Man I still remember the sheer excitement of Halloween when I was a kid. Months thinking about costumes, and finally the big day arrives... a parade in the school gym wearing your costumes, candy all day, rushing home after school wishing every hour would pass quicker so night would fall. An early dinner, then jackets on top of costumes and out the door! Hours later, a bag brimming with hard-earned Trick-or-Treat candy after a long cold night of knocking on doors (haha)... hot chocolate with mini marshmallows and fireworks in our backyard, a feeling of tiredness but still lingering excitement as you fall asleep, dreaming of all the candy you're going to stuff your face with tomorrow...!

...and... here is a picture of me from last year, with my little nephew Brody and little niece Kensie in their last year's costumes... heehee! Not to worry, two minutes later I had distracted Brody with Kensie's bumbleebee wings and he was as happy as a...fish.

Happy Halloween everyone... hope you all have tons o' fun!

xo Lyndsay

Sandeep & Nishidha! Wedded Bliss!

Social networking sites can really reunite you with those really great people you remember from high school, friends who you didn't quite keep in touch with but you remember as being awesome. People like crazy Sandeep M! I always remember Sandeep as being smart, funny and somewhat goofy. Extra tall and always making some hilarious deadpan remark in his deep, cartoonish voice. So it was great to meet up again on a certain social networking site a year or so ago. Sandeep soon also noticed that my current occupation happened to be cake-making, and he and his fine lady happened to be getting married on the best date ever, 10/10/10!!! (though some Chinese would say 08/08/08 is the best day ever, heehee!).

I made 300 delicious cupcakes, plus a cutting cake and 100 matching flags for Sandeep and Nishidha's wedding party (well, one of their wedding parties! -- the wedding party lasted for 7 days!). Dark chocolate cupcakes, mango cupcakes (a requested flavour from S&N) and vanilla cupcakes with two tone turquoise and green buttercream rosettes.

Sandeep has the sweetest parents... and delivering the cupcakes took me back into the 1990s when I was in high school into my old neighborhood and familiar haunts. Many of my pals lived around where I was delivering so it really made me jog down memory lane! I can't believe so many years have passed since high school. It's so nice to see how well Sandeep is doing and what a fine human being he has turned out to be. I can tell he and Nish are so in love and I am sure have so much fun together. It's all anyone can hope for!

Congratulations you two! Thank you for having Coco Cake be a part of your wedding!

xo Lyndsay

Baby Shower Mini Cupcakes with Custom Flags

These little custom made baby-faced cupcake toppers I made crack me up with their different expressions! These toppers are what makes the difference between regular little mini cupcakes and an extra special array of mini cupcakes! Nicole ordered these for her cousin's baby shower... vanilla mini cupcakes in silver liners with vanilla creamcheese frosting in pale green and pale yellow palettes.

Perfectly adorable!