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Happy holidays everyone! Coco Cake will be closed from Dec 24-Jan 4. Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season and an excellent new year. 2...
Sandra had a very specific request for her sweet daughter's second birthday party: garden party themed, with two colour rosette buttercr...
I've come to the realization that, apart from making beautiful little artful cupcakes, making cakes that look like other types of food i...
My BFF Amy, who incidentally also works at the advertising agency TBWA, ordered a collection of pretty Coco Cake cupcakes for a baby shower ...
Oh so pretty and oh so delicious: Coco Cake's holiday flavours! White peppermint buttercream topped dark chocolate cupcakes and Chai cup...
A lovely weekend... I experimented with a new flavour creation, milky black tea cupcakes. The result was a subtle, milky tea flavoured cupca...
A wonderful Coco Cake cupcake and cake-topped tower for my sister's father-in-law! Mr.Cole turned 70 and to celebrate, his family threw ...
Sweet Kim from Flipside Creative (remember her? She ordered these Toki Doki cupcakes a while back?) ordered two dozen pretty little Berry Go...
I just love Matthew, Nathan and Ryan! They are the beautiful and hilariously active three little sons of our good family friends Jason and S...
"It's the most wonderful time.... of the year!" I love the holidays. Cold weather, warm hats, mittens, scarves, an excuse to m...
One of my first jobs when I was a teen was working at Produce City Plus, a grocery store that once belonged to our family, and used to sit a...
Sweet and pretty Becky's birthday rolled around last week and her thoughtful boyfriend Michael (who incidentally, I learned recently tha...
I know it's not actually called the BLIM ART MART. But for some reason I call it that ALL THE TIME... yes, crazy times Coco Cake cupcake...
These Coco Cake cupcakes turned out delicious and delightful. A "woodsy" theme ordered by the ever-cool Stephanie for her boyfrien...
Birthday Hello Kitty buddy cupcakes...Meow!!Hee-larious monkey cake for Mike's birthday-- "call me" he says into the banana......
Oh this funny little Coco Cake specialty cake was a real chuckle for me to make. My bro-in-law Geoff and his girlfriend Monique requested a ...
"Thomas! Thomas!" Says my nephew Brody. One of his current obsessions is crazy old Thomas the Tank Engine and the many train buddi...
It was my BIRTHDAY on Sunday! Hooray! I turned... gasp... 33. THIRTY THREE! thirty three. See, I have to write it a bunch of times to get us...
You know when you just get the nicest feeling about someone? Alanna, the sweet and beautiful bride of this story, emailed me a while back wi...
Sorry I'm a bit behind on my bloggin' world this week! I took a relaxing little train trip down to Portland, Oregon to visit my dear...
OH CUTENESS!!! Lovely Samantha phoned me at good old Coco Cake HQ with a request: a Where The Wild Things Are cake and matching specialty cu...
Fondant letter topped vanilla cupcakes for Jenny, for her friend Ken!I love laying out the lettering and snapping a bird's eye view phot...
For my BFF Amy's birthday, she dropped a hint a few months ago that she was dying to try these pistachio rosewater vegan cupcakes from t...
Andrea emailed me with the request to make some celebratory Olympics themed cupcakes for her dad, who was running a leg of the Olympic torch...
You didn't think old Coco Cake had forgotten about Halloween, did you? Lookit these cute little orange sugar sprinkle-dipped pumpkin cup...
Morgan and Brittany had their wedding reception at the Planetarium here in Vancouver. How cool is that?? Live space synthesizer music by th...
Remember this little cutie I made last March for the adorable baby Jamie, inspired by the amazing Eric Carle's illustration?Well the cra...
Did you know I am a fourth generation Chinese Canadian? My grandma (Poh poh) even grew up only a few blocks from where I live now in Vancouv...
A matchy-matchy birthday of pinky red little birdies, a super cute colour theme of green, red and brown... for sweet and adorable Olivia...
200 + minis for an order...dark chocolate minis for another order...solo mini cupcake jam (let's face it, it probably ended up jammed in...
I don't realllly know what noises dolphins make. "ar? ar?" Er, I don't think that's right... Maybe I'm thinking of...
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...
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 ...
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 Whe...
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 cupca...
For my dear sis Shelley's birthday, I made this buttermilk vanilla bean triple layer cake, with raspberry jam filling and white chocolat...
I'm thinking this little nut might speak for himself. Been working on a few ideas on how to make alternate animal face cupcakes that are...
Two separate Hello Kitty orders in one week! Go little white faced kawaii cat with no mouth, go! Hee hee! I like doing these cat-faced cakes...
Oh, love. It is a truly beautiful thing. I got to be a part of the super amazing and super special wedding of beautiful, vivacious Jamie and...
They don't look too foreboding and black foresty though, do they? They kind of look like Pink Forest cupcakes! I love how cartoonish the...
I made 200 of these little Coco Cake chocolate and vanilla mini cupcakes for Engine Digital's 7 year anniversary part-ay! I also made 15...
Rest In Peace to ChubChub, our beloved kitty. 2000-2009Cats the musical. Ridiculous, right? But still, Grizelda crooning those powerful note...
I had a lovely time at my Coco Cake Cupcakes table, catching up with old art/craft buddies and meeting some awesome new people at last weeke...
I usually don't like to do Disney or typical cartoon stuff-- there are people who do it much better than I, and I prefer to do more vint...
Zing!! How cool would it be to work at a great local Vancouver design/marketing/programming firm, and get treated to WICKED AWESOME things f...
Do you know the brilliant illustrators of Meomi? They make the cutest characters, including these soon to be even more famous ones. Monice p...
My super powered gal pal Erin Bonnifero launched her incredible new project this past Saturday, September 12: Collage Collage! A shop, look ...
GOOD EVENING VANCOUVER!!No, this isn't GM Place... just little old me at Coco Cake cupcake headquarters, just wanting to let you all kno...
Ain't it great when the sun continues to stream its lovely rays in to your life, well into September? I was worried there for a while la...
Ain't they cute??I had an awesome time on my vacay, though I couldn't even stay away from baking for 10 days-- I baked a blackberry ...
Hi everyone! I am off on a sailing vacation around the gulf islands of British Columbia. Hoping to do some relaxing, fishing, swimming, rea...
My bro-in-law Gerald is a real cool dude. We even call him the "Dogfather" for his love of bringing friends, family and food toget...
Take me on a train to Kawaii Town, where purple monkey cupcakes grow. Lemon Love cupcakes with lemon creamcheese frosting, topped with fonda...
Coco Cake chocolate cupcakes with swirls of vanilla buttercream and classic colorful birthday sprinkles! For my brother in law Party Man Dan...
Sara contacted me a few months ago with hopes that I could possibly make some delicious gluten free, dairy free cupcakes for her and her man...
My friend Helen sent me this hilarious link to the game "Pizza Party". Doesn't that look like the worst game ever? So boring!!...
I love these kawaii pink color-themed cuteness for Peach Mei's sweet little niece Avah! Berry Good cupcakes topped with vanilla butterc...
Happy Birthday Julie! Raspberry vanilla cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream and fresh berries!
This is what I call the Super Swirl. It's like a mega soft serve ice cream cone! Too much frosting? Who thinks too much? Who thinks juss...
I've kind of avoided making caramel for the past while because of how much I actually love caramel. When I was an office temp a number o...
A blue themed "Hello Thirty" cake for Kara, the 30th birthday gal! Dark chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream filling covered wi...
"Hi Baby Kenshee!" this is what my nephew Brody says to my new niece Kensie, who turns 1 month old on August 7th! Last night my si...
Um, can a couple get any cuter and more attractive and stylish than adorable Alice and Rory?? Alice and I have been in touch for the last s...
Super cute Adele from Dace (incidentally one of my favorite Vancouver clothing brands) ordered a hilarious cake for her boyfriend Ryan's...
Loved doing this. Loved it. A phone call from Whitehorse in the Yukon Territories of Canada-- a pink, girly birthday for a special 17 year o...
Matcha makes me think of: Macho Man Randy Savage from my childhood days of watching WWF Wrestling, and the Village People tune! And of cours...
After a stylish Vegas wedding, Maryanne and Dennis' wedding reception was held today on this beautiful, hot Vancouver afternoon! A few y...
I had a super duper craving for banana chocolate chip SOMETHING. And, since I was having my work pals over for a BBQ, I thought-- well heck!...
Extreme deliciousness alert: if you are bonkers for green tea like meeeee, you will love Coco Cake Cupcakes' very pretty matcha green te...
Yuki phoned me to request something special for her sister's baby shower, so I came up with a cute little colour palette and theme of bl...
Drive about 40 minutes outside of Vancouver and you can get to so many crazy little destinations. Crescent Beach is in White Rock and it...
We had a lovely BBQ in the warm evening air last night in our backyard, in honour of cousin Randy's birthday and visit to Vancouver. Our...
The lovely Sarah contacted me to make chocolate with chocolate buttercream Spiderman cupcakes for her little son Nicky's 5th birthday. B...
How cool is this idea? A 7-11 themed wedding!!! Bright citrus colours in green, orange and yellow, a full 5 cent candy bar, burger station, ...
Oh baby Sienna is so cute! For her 1st birthday, I made 4 dozen Coco Cake specialty cupcakes, in orange, pink and green--vibrant and bright ...
Yay crafty Vancouver! Last night I got to see many crafting pals and gals at the screening of Handmade Nation at the Rio Theatre, put on by ...
I just can't help but post one more photograph from the lovely Coco Cake Cupcakes photoshoot with Amy... !!! Also... I just gotta say,...
Isn't that the cutest photo of a Coco Cake chocolate buttercream cupcake? It reminds me of a family road trip in the station wagon to hi...
A shout out to the best parents in the world: Gerry and Linda Sung! Forty years ago today they were married in Vancouver at a church on Oak ...
Remember this show? Canadians? Born in the 1970s and 1980s? Great little animated intro with nice graphics, nice catchy little children...
You know what's fun? NAMING your cupcake flavours. You get to make up something called "Raspberry Rose"... a beautiful little ...
Inside this pristinely white and smooth covered cake is a very yummy dark chocolate cake with a hint of spicy cinnamon, filled with dark cho...
This was a total blast to make, and a real family affair. Chris turns 30-- so for this special event, his sweet mother, who lives in New Zea...
My other work, Arts Umbrella, hired me to make mini cupcakes for our year-end art show for all the children's work at the Buschlen Mowat...
For a beautiful June wedding at the Rowing Club in Vancouver's Stanley Park, I made 140 cupcakes and 70 mini cupcakes, to make a lovely ...
No, it isn't Chucky from Child's Play. It's me, your old pal Lyndsay, of Coco Cake Cupcakes!!! I am sorry I haven't posted f...
When I was a kid I was OBSESSED with the movie The Karate Kid. Loved it, loved it. My dad dubbed it for me on VHS and I remember watching it...
These are cute--! And, because I taste-test all of my Coco Cake output (heh heh) I can also say they turned out rather deliciously!!! I thin...
Berry Good!A collection of beautiful mini Berry Goods topped with fresh raspberries, in cute little red cupcake liners, made for little Bryn...
I made 100 mini cupcakes for a Women's Health event in Vancouver... a gorgeous bright fuschia tinted buttercream! I also made dark choco...
How gorgeous is my sis Shelley, 8 months pregnant in a beautiful, super colorful dress! (above in the pic)! This past Sunday, my other sis L...
Michelle ordered two dozen of these pretty purple kitty cupcakes and their pals Pink Swirlie cupcakes for her sister's wedding shower! T...
A beautiful, sunny May wedding day for a union of two young loves. Aren't they a beautiful couple? With Coco Cake! Raspberry Rose cupca...
How to get to COCO CAKE Street? Haha. Tricked you. You thought I was gonna sing something else. Heh heh. Ha ha.Hi everyone! I missed you all...
Oh I was on a wonderful, relaxing vacation retreat over the long weekend, we went to Saturna Island with a group of old friends and new. I e...
Okay. This cake KILLED ME with cuteness while making it. I was chuckling away like a nutbar, especially when I did the finishing touches of ...
Wheee Miffy! Miffy is so cute, but not as cute as baby Ryan... I made a Miffy birthday cake for baby Ryan's 1st birthday! Thank you for ...
For Baby Hazel's 1st birthday, I made raspberry jam filled chocolate cupcakes, topped with soft pink vanilla buttercream, and some with ...
To my mom, (pictured with her grandson Brody) who has always supported me in all of my life's crazy choices so far, and gives me so much...
With all the fondant-covered cupcake and cake madness lately, Coco Cake must remind its dear friends and readers of the original party anima...
Polka dot fondant topped chocolate buttercream cupcakes were on the long list of today's Coco Cake orders! A 30th birthday present for E...
Nikkei Center's wonderful Asian Art Auction ordered oodles of Coco Cake cupcake minis for their fundraising event this past weekend. I w...
Wheeee!! What fun... a beautiful color theme of pink, orange and brown made up this adorable baby shower cake and matching cupcakes-- with b...
tokidoki cupcakes!! A last minute order from Kim, desperately seeking someone to help her out in making her Little Sister Dante's birthd...
I've written before about how NUTS my family is about the Vancouver Canucks. My mom is also nuts about BC LIONS FOOTBALL. I'm nuts a...
Coco Cake Vanilla Bean with Vanilla Buttercream cupcakes!Party time display! Coco Cake CupcakesMy friend and one of many Coco Cake mascots, ...
Insane because I went a little insane making these crazy guys. They were a bit on the labour-intensive side but I just love love loved how t...
Okay super weird cosmic times this week. I got a phone call to make three dozen Coco Cake cupcakes for a young girl turning 13, to deliver t...
I love arts and crafts! I especially love the beautiful wave of arts and crafts that has been happening in the world and especially buzzing ...
Do you love green tea flavoured things as much as I do? As a Chinese Canadian family growing up in Vancouver, we were always surrounded by l...
Coco Cake Cupcakes will once again be at the wonderful Blim Art Market, the last Sunday of every month at Cambrian Hall in Vancouver, E.17th...
Yellow canaries singing in my ear, made of vanilla cupcakes, vanilla buttercream and fondant. "Chirp! Chirp!" Vanilla buttercream ...
So you know how whenever I make a cake it looks like it's for an 8 year old child? This cake is for a 28 year old man. Am I getting a bi...
One of my growing gang of loyal customers, Charlene, had a specific request for a friend's birthday: "Coconut cupcakes, hot pink ic...
What was I doing in the 1980s?Walking around all cool as a cucumber with my Expo '86 passport in an Expo Ernie tshirt and probably one o...
Fun fun times! Moishe, the yellow eyed monster dude from "Where The Wild Things Are", was the request for today's cake of the ...
A pretty collection of recent baking: Lemon Love swirl-top cupcakes in lovely red liners, and tart lemon curd and raspberry jam filled cocon...
Yum yum yum! Sorry BunBun. I had to try you.Love,your creator
So I've been taking this super radically fun cake decorating class at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts with the awesome April, and...
Bunny box! Perfectly cute little vanilla cupcake bunnies, teamed up with their friends grassy town cupcakes with malted milk speckled eggs! ...
There's many ways to have two moms-- one of the ways is marrying an awesome, awesome dude with initials RT, who happens to have a very a...
Eeks, my nephew Brody is the cutest little rascal. Only last week he started walking, arms raised up in "grizzly bear" position w...
When someone loooooves pickles, you just gotta make them a crazy cake: starring a pickle with a face on it wearing a top hat, sitting on to...
Vancouver people: do you know Sunrise Pizza? It's on Commercial Drive, close to Venables? It's one of those ancient Vancouver establ...
What a blast at the first of the monthly Blim Art Markets at Cambrian Hall! Cupcake fever was on, and Coco Cake cupcakes sole proprietor L.K...
Two clown-ish memories of elementary school: Memory One: Being 7 or 8 years old (in grade 3?) and watching an assembly in the school gymnasi...
Hi Vancouver cupcake fans! As the blue scallop says, "come on down to cupcake town and say helllooo" to me and my cupcake friends!...
I miss our old dog Woody. He was a very sleek and adorable boxer dog with the most hilarious and sweet personality. When Woody's back l...
I loved doing this so much! I get such joy when I receive a phone call or email from someone with a great request. The Hungry Caterpillar fo...
When my sisters and I were kids, we were SUPER OBSESSED with SANRIO! Do you know Sanrio? It's the home of Hello Kitty, Little Twin Stars...
These little mini fondant cakes, they are getting rather popular over in old Coco Cake Land! Today I made two, so here is the first of two! ...
My talented friend Melissa requested a birthday cake for one of her best pals, with the only requirement being a fondant rat in a teal sweat...
Did you miss me? I was a tricky rascal, I saved up a few drafts and posted them while I was away in Maui paradise... Now I am back with many...
Believe it or not: this cake is VEGAN! Dark chocolate super moist cake with raspberry jam filling, covered with chocolate ganache... zingggg...
"Go long and lovely... you want to make the longest brushstrokes in Canada!""You want to go gentle with the paintbrush. Prete...
Two tiers of bright pink colored fondant joy... ! Coco Cake chocolate ganache filled mini cake, pretty flowers, custom flag on modern but vi...
Tara, the maid of honour at my wedding and one of my best friends, (who was carrying a bump that day!) now has a ridiculously cute and smart...
Dot the Deer joins Pinky the Pup and Ling Woo the vintage Lamb in the very exclusive "I appeared in a Coco Cake Cupcakes photoshoot...
One of my BFFs, Amy Pelletier, had a wonderful art opening of her conceptual photo show "Collector", running until March 22 at Mal...
I have a mild to medium spending problem when it comes to vintage knick-knack items. Especially when the item is a ridiculously cute lamb va...
Hollah! Coco Cake Cupcakes will now have a monthly "retail" spot-- at the super awesome new monthly BLIM Art Market, run by my pal...
Bonjour! Je m'apelle Lyndsay! Je suis une femme qui habite a Vancouver, Columbie Britanique. J'aime parler en Francais, mais malheur...
Vancouver Canucks hockey team (hockey is big in Canada, people!!) cupcakes for a husband and wife birthday party-- both Canucks fans!!
It's a big claim, to call cupcake flags the cutest flags on planet Earth. Lately I've been throwing around this saying quite a bit. ...
Some say love... it is a river... We sang "The Rose" by Bette Midler when I was in elementary school choir. Coincidentally, years ...
Ooooh I loved doing this event! A wonderful book called Vancouver Matters held its book launch at the Charles H Scott Gallery at Emily Carr ...
Valentine's Day! Wild weekend for Coco Cake... pictured here: Hamburger cake for my dear friend Amy's boyfriend Stephen's 30th b...
I remember when I was a kid hearing this peculiar jingle, "blue and green, should never be seen-- except for in the washing machine!...
Didja know? Didja hear the news? Je t'aime, non, j'ADORE les cupcakes! I love making them just as much as I love giving them as pres...
I really thought I was making adorable little pink furry bears for a cute baby named Kiana's 1st birthday... but I think I ended up maki...
Just because it rhymes. For a lovely Indian food feast at a neighbor's house, I was in charge of dessert-- so of course I had to make CU...
Try it in your best robot voice:"Transformers...More than meets the eye!Transformers...Robots in Disguise!"I was born in the 1970s...
When I received a call to make a beautiful cupcake display for a retirement tea party, I could tell from the start that this was a very spec...
It's been a while since I've posted, and let me tell ya I love to post on my blog so I apologize for being a busy beaver! First off:...
Coco Cake and sister company Cake & Lemonade Super 8 Wedding Films had a ball of a time at their very first wedding fair, Indie I Do. Co...
Above: photos from the Indie I Do Show, by Tracey Heppner!Cupcake fans everywhere! Coco Cake Cupcakes will be hosting a cupcake bar at the v...
Many Canadians enjoy the sport of hockey. Even Chinese Canadians. Chinese Canadians such as my entire family, particularly my mom, who is an...
Wahhh, how cute is my little nephew!? For his Totoro-themed very first birthday party, Coco Cake (also known as: L.K. Sung) busted a serious...