Auld Lang Syne

When I was a kid, every New Years Eve was spent up at our family cabin in Whistler, British Columbia, a two-hour drive from Vancouver, from ...

My Honeybun's Birthday, and Snow Days!

Ooooh, a lovely light green and pink mint buttercream chocolate-ganache filled cake! Is it an 11 year old girl in a frilly frock's fanci...

Hamburger Cake: The Reprise

For those of you who know Gerry Sung personally, you know he's a man of few words (although inside he's quite likely chuckling away)...

I Am Lion, Hear Me Roar

Or does he meow? These little lions might make baby roars! Coco Cake made these little specialty lion cupcakes, chocolate ganache with fonda...

Pinky The Pup and Coco Cake

"Woof woof!" said Pinky The Pup."Yesssss???" said Coco Cake sole proprietor L.Sung."I love fancy and delicious cupc...

Coco Choco Peppermint!

Holiday flavours are fun to come up with. A classique holiday flave is chocolate and peppermint-- precisely the two fine flavours featured i...

TOOK

What a wonderful day at Toque, the art sale at the Western Front in Vancouver! I am happy to say that Coco Cake cupcakes were indeed a hit, ...

Coco Cake at Toque this Saturday!

This old gal's probably thinking: "Ahhh, my leg!!"In Vancouver there is a most excellent and lovely art fair called TOQUE, hel...

Oh No You Dih'nt L.Sung...?

Oh yes you did! I bought myself a new camera, woohoo!! I've been doing the "I got five thousand doll-ahs" dance for a whole da...

The Choklit Shop

Call me Pop Tate Sung. We never learned much about Pop Tate in the Archie comics, did we? I can't remember a single personal story line ...

Pink Berry Goods, And A Debate...

Did you know I also instruct Digital Arts to kids? We do fun projects such as mixed media collage, animation... all done on the computer, ho...

Lee Mon Gai

Sometimes when our family goes to our usual Chinese restaurant we're not in the mood for fish and tofu on rice, or Chinese mushroom and ...

Part-ay! Cupcake Part-ay!

Sing it to the tune of "pizza party." Is that actually a song or is it just what we sing when we're getting late night pizza a...

Bacon, Persimmon, Numbers

What do these have in common? They were all part of Coco Cake's Friday baking party, starring Coco Cake and a lone but happy Chinese Can...

Miniature Things

Those mini cupcakes, they're wonderful little things, aren't they? A bite or two of moist and luscious cake with a creamy frosting c...

It's My Party, I'll Make A Cake If I Want To

A cake if I want to, a cake if I want to... I just love Leslie Gore. "It's My Party" has such sad lyrics. It's about a gir...

Unko Smoked Salmon Cupcakes + Friends

Sometimes, even when you do something for part of your living, such as baking boutique cupcakes, sometimes even you too might make a chocola...

Teddy Bear Cupcakes

What do you do when you have the cutest little rascal of a nephew? You make chocolate TEDDY BEAR CUPCAKES with peanut butter filling! I love...

Berry Good

The Coco Cake favorite "Berry Good" has been getting a lot of attention lately, likely because of its inherent Adorability+Rather ...

Holiday Road...

A head's up to those who are considering Coco Cake Cupcakes for holiday soirees-- special holiday flavours are in the works, such as Dar...

Flags, Flags, Everywhere There's Flags

How I love the look of the adorable cupcake flag, announcing with pride the occasion of its making, bursting with celebratory paper and stic...

Candy striper cupcakes & Macaron!

An early afternoon potluck at my dear friend Tara's house (with her hilarious kid Esme) called for a fun little dessert. I made cocoa-cr...

Crazy times for Coco Cake: Night For All Souls

Crazy day! This evening was Vancouver's Night For All Souls event at Mountainview Cemetary, a truly beautiful and contemplative evening ...

Tokyo Banana-- Sing To Tune of "Buffalo Soldier"

In 2001 a small obsession began. This obsession began in Tokyo, Japan in a tiny hotel, staying with my sister on tatami mats. We are a Chine...

A Lovely Fall Wedding Day... with Coco Cake!

For my good friend Miko's fall wedding on a sunday Thanksgiving afternoon, the pressure was on to devise the cutest of cupcakes for the ...

Summer of '69

I could look at old photos forever. I just love them. Especially pictures of my parents! They were married in a church in Vancouver, with th...

Gems Of Times Past

Glossy pink seven-minute frosting, those beloved maraschino cherry chunkers in festive red and emerald green floating in a chiffon cake. Plu...

When Cakes Are Deemed Clinically Insane

What a weekend. Saturday my husband and I played in my sister's friend's fundraiser DODGEBALL tournament. 5 hours of 80's themed...

Because They're Pretty And So Are You

I made these for my mom last Mother's Day... lemon cupcakes with creamcheese frosting and fresh raspberries, one of my fave cupcakes to ...

Ginge Cookies For Fall Chill

I made these for my Dad, to say thank you for taking me and my sister to Seattle over the weekend and spending all his money on us! They tur...

Peaches And Cream He-Man Muffins=Crazy Delish

When I was a kid I was into both girly toys and boy toys. Barbies and He-Man. Peaches n Cream Barbie would frolick at Castle Greyskull and H...

Vintage Baking Book Beauty

I have a growing collection of lovely and hilarious vintage baking books and even baking flyer-type things that always contain truly wonderf...

Ganuts About Ganache

Sometimes a title of a post doesn't always have to make sense. I am nuts about ganache, but sometimes I even feel ganuts. Ganache is a w...

Coconut Cupcakes With Pink Creamcheese Frosting

Oh lovely day! I baked these for my Auntie Lorraine for her birthday. We went to a Shanghainese Chinese restaurant in Richmond called "...

The Journey Of A Sugar Cookie Elephant

A year ago I was like, "How in heaven's name does one make those sugar cookies with the icing done in such a precise and fancy mann...

Pie, Oh My, Pie

A crust, a crust, what a wonderful thing to lust, a perfectly fine and buttery flaky crust. To emulate the fork splashing down on the Tender...

Welcome to my cupcake land!

Hi everyone! Welcome to my crazy new world of cupcake baking for the lovely people of Vancouver, BC. I am a self-taught baker with an adorat...