My Dad's Birthday Cake: Hairy Dog With Moustache!

It was my Dad's birthday on December 17th and we celebrated by hitting up an old family favourite Portugese restaurant here in Vancouver...

Happy Birthday Aaro

I have very kind and cool Coco Cake customers and I am lucky for this! I made cute little balloon-themed cupcakes for little Aaro's birt...

Sweet Wedding

Bernadette and Rowan's lovely red, black and cream wedding.

Vroom Vroom: Race Car Cake

Giant race car cake made for Electronic Arts' Need For Speed game, from Engine Digital!

White Fluffy Cat & Alpine Ski Theme Cupcakes

For Brenda's 40th birthday, ordered by the amazing Camille & Chadwick.

Recent Coco Cake Projects

Cutie Patootie Baby Shower!

A lovely order for Anne for her daughter-in-law Stephanie's baby shower. Pale yellow and pale green and white themed baby faced cupcakes...

Crazy Cuteness Children's Coco Cake Round-up!

As much as I love blogging and obsessively photographing and documenting my cakes, sometimes my projects backlog and build up like Cake Moun...

Kelli-Lou, Happy Birthday To You!

It's a true joy in my Coco Cakey heart when I get to make some special delights for the wonderful people in my life! Kelli-Lou is the aw...

Graydon's Guitar Party!

Sweet and adorable Graydon turned two years old... remember his Where The Wild Things Are party from last year? This year his mom Samantha t...

Jeanie & Ian!

cupcake tower!Ian and Jeanie in Scotland!Gazing at their wedding cupcake tower in Vancouver! (heehee)Ahhhh-dorable.Bahh bahh black sheep!! I...

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 m...

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 ...

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 ...

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 quit...

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 di...

My Favourite Cake Lately: Laura's Forest Themed Birthday Cake!

This Coco Cake specialty cake has a real party-time Canadiana sunny Fall day vibe. I think that's what I was feeling when I made this ca...

Recent Cakey Times At Coco Cake!

Another one of them cake round-ups! Sorry I have been so busy, but I haven't forgotten you, my dear blog! A whole bunch of crazytown cak...

Roar! Cute Lion Cake For Lucas's 1st Birthday

A cute yellow and orange coloured "lion" vanilla cake for Lucas's first birthday, and dark chocolate buttercream topped mini v...

Science Themed Birthday: Einstein Cupcakes!

Did anyone else have to dissect a cow eyeball in grade 8? I remember our crotchety old Science teacher bringing out the batch of eyeballs bo...

Pretty Wedding Amongst The Woods

Alex and Steve had a lovely wedding amongst the woodsy background of Simon Fraser University. Coco Cake made some pretty cupcakes for the oc...

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...

"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 ...

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, ...

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 lav...

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?...

Little Girl Cakes!

A mini round-up of some recent cakes made for little girls! Yes, many little girls love those colours of pink and red... I have always loved...

Pauline & Kai's Sweet Woodland Themed Wedding

Good morning Fall. Here in Vancouver, Fall can hit rather abruptly. One minute you're wearing sunglasses, a summer dress and flip flops ...

Baby Tanner's 100 Day Dinner & Tiger Cupcakes!

Wowzers. My sweet and super cute new nephew Baby Tanner, also known as TanMan, or Tan Tan, or Tanner Banner, celebrated his very special 100...

A Few Days In The Life

Recent Coco Cakeing!

pretty mini pink rosette topped cupcakeslovely for a bridal or baby shower, or a shabby chic birthdayhydraenga cupcakeshadows!lettering: ...

Michelle & Timothy's Pretty Pastel Coloured Wedding Cakes

It's like a blind date sometimes, having my little Coco Cake cake business.... ! Who are these mysterious characters who send me emails ...

Bun Bun Fun Fun

Bunny cake! Bunny cake! Bunny cake! A 9 inch round vanilla cake with dark chocolate ganache filling for Abby's birthday, ordered by her ...

Abbey & Alex: Cuteness Match Made In Crafty Adorable Heaven!

Sweet Abbey and cool Alex got married here in Vancouver... and Coco Cake was lucky to be a part of the celebration!Abbey sent me the adorabl...

Steak Anyone? Steak Cake!

Oh man. Doing fake food cakes is probably one of my top favourite types of cakes to make. I just think it's so hilarious for some reason...

Calgary Cousins Cupcake Cuteness!

Man I'm lucky I have cool in-laws. The Trawicks are prettty prettty sweet, although they are the first to self-deprecate themselves! Not...

Four Party Animals Straight From The Street. Sesame Street.

Heehee! I loved how these Coco Cake created nutbars turned out. As I handcut each little fondant eyeball and made the beaks and such for Bi...

An Apple A Day!

Olivia and I began our Coco Cake cupcake conversation over her wedding day way back in November... and I found her to be so sweet, kind and...

Anniversary Cake For Erin & Lenny

Erin and Lenny are two lovely people who celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary recently... and Erin requested a chocolate cake with pea...

Richard Scarry-Inspired Sneaker Car Cake!

The very excellent Robin emailed me with a request: a special cake for her little cutie Henry (also known as Auggie) who was turning 1, and ...

Kai & Xian's Toy Story & Sanrio Birthdays!

Corrine contacted me nice and early with a request for her two cuties' double birthday bash: A Toy Story themed cake and matching cupcak...

Jen & Ben's Super Cute & Crafty Wedding!

The darling Jen and scholarly Ben got hitched in a whimsically craft-ful swirl of coloured bunting, gingham tablecloths, typewriters, ice cr...

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

What a seriously beautiful song. Judy Garland singing it, only, from the amazing movie The Wizard of Oz! The song makes me think of hope and...

Maneki Neko Cake & Cupcakes!

Eeeeks! I just love it when I get a cake request for something as ridiculously cute as the Maneki Neko. Maneki Neko is the little white cat ...

So Pretty Garden Party Birthday!

The beautiful girl that is Marla ordered an assortment of lovely Coco Cake cupcake goodies for her fiancee Arch's brother and wife's...

Totoro Anniversary Cake For Chibi!

Whee! Another cute Totoro cake by yours truly, Coco Cake sole proprietor L.K.S.When I get asked to do work that I've done previously, I ...

Aaron & Jay's Country Fair Wedding Hoedown!

I love it when a bride and groom has such a strong, fun vision -- for instance, Aaron & Jay's country fair hoedown wedding! Picture...

Artful Cakeful

Kensie's 1st Birthday Bash!

The giant Miga I made out of felt! I made two of these...Miga and Kensie are twins!Mini Miga a.k.a. the birthday girl, Kensie!Cupcake tower ...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

Get On The CatBus (Cake!)

My cute new little nephew Tanner turned 1 month old! We Chinese like to celebrate as much as we possibly can so we had a special "Tanne...

Cookie Monster The Maniac

Piping away Cookie Monster's furry face and sides.COOKIES!Happy Birthday Kingston!Fondant eyeball!Gimme gimme gimme a cookie after midni...

Moustachio & Friends

Moustachio-themed cupcakes to announce the gender of Kellie's upcoming baby! :) I couldn't resist making this moustache into a face....

Crazy Cake For My Pal Raf

Raffers a.k.a. Shogodog (er, real name Rafael) is the best buddy a girl could have. Raffers and I met in 2003 when I did a media technician ...

Coco Cake Round-Up!

Lorna ordered dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercreamfor her boyfriend Curtis' birthday...She also requested one to look like...

Sharon & Cam: 10 Years 'N Counting!

Yay!! Our beautiful friends Sharon and Cam celebrated their 10 year wedding anniversary at Cambrian Hall here in Vancouver... what an evenin...

Look At This Stuff... Isn't It Neat?

Little Mermaid themed under the sea cupcakes!My version of the crab dude and the yellow and blue fish buddy(uh, Sebastian and Flounder, resp...

Happy Spring!

Pretty in pink vanilla cupcakes with pink vanilla buttercream for Siobian's daughter and mom's birthdays! Cuteness. Happy Spring eve...

I Choo Choo Choose You

Party train, party train... Barb phoned me with a cute request: a choo choo train themed birthday cupcake cake for her adorable little grand...

Totoro Cake!

Bob, one of the most literally awesome dudes in Vancouver, emailed me with an adorable request: to make a very special cake as a surprise fo...

Mickey Cake & Cupcakes For Baby Isaac!

Jacob contacted COCO CAKE with a request for his little cutie Isaac's 1st birthday party: Mickey Mouse themed cake and matching Mickey ...

Pomy & Kathy Wedding Cuteness

It turned out to be a gorgeous, perfectly sunny day for Pomy and Kathy's May wedding day! What great colors and flavours they chose - co...

Gone Fishin'

Sweet Cynthia phoned me about a month ago with a hilarious request: make a giant, "80's tight and bright" themed fish made out...

Sweet Sixteen

Man. 16 was a looong time ago for Coco Cake sole proprietor L.K.Sung. Halve my current age and you won't get to 16. Close, but not quite...

Unicorns Know How To Part-ay

Cute! Unicorn and pony themed cupcakes for cute little Megan's farm-themed birthday! All part of last weekend's descent into cake ma...

WOMANKIND cupcakes

I sold cupcakes at my husband Rich's band's recent show here (he is above playing the bass in the background!) in Vancouver. Just fo...

Heather & James Nuptial Cuteness

Love the bright and contrasty colours of Heather and James's gorgeous cupcake wedding tower. When we showed up to set up the cakes, Heat...

Happy Mother's Day!!

To all the amazing mamas out there, 'specially my own mom Linda, my 87 year old Poh Poh, my two sisters who amaze me with their adorable...

Yay Baby Ajay! Baby Shower Cake & Cupcakes

For a lovely soiree for sweet Natallie and her adorable little 2 month old Ajay, Natallie ordered up a whole bunch of specialty cupcakes and...

Animals Round-up!

Oh I love doing animal themed cupcakes and cakes. Love it, love it. Cracks me up every time. Here's a selection of some recent animal th...

Ayla & Tony Cuteness!

Ayla and Tony got married in Maui. LUCKY, right? Then flew home to a stylish reception at Vancouver's the Diamond bar. Coco Cake was a p...

Under The Sea! Cupcakes

The party crew!I love this little starfish dude.this guy's straight from Clown Town.this guy is my favourite. CrabMan! Cool as a cucumbe...

Jamie & Nicole Extreme Attractiveness Alert

How GORGE are Nicole and Jamie, newly married last weekend at Brix here in Vancouver? I love Nicole's dress, and there's nothing mor...

Pineapple Surprise

Okay. Bill Cosby was right. Kids say the DARNDEST things and I learn this every time I work with kids teaching them art. Kids are hilarious ...

Nemo Cupcakes for Ava!

You know what's amazing? When you deliver a birthday cupcake order and the mom hugs you because she is so happy. Trish ordered Nemo them...

Bobbi & Scott's Buttercreamy Nuptials

Bobbi and Scott tied the knot! I was in attendance at the post-ceremony dance party, and oh how lovely and beautiful the newlyweds looked! T...

Coco Cake Round-Up!

I'm a bit behind on my postings of recent Coco Cake work so here is a selection of some recent cuteness! Enjoy! xoCute crayon cupcakes f...

Still Hungry... After All... These Years... Oohh!

So original gangster, Coco Cake style, Mr.Hungry Old Caterpillar cupcake party train was in my life a few times in the past while. The first...

Polly & Lee's beautiful rosette themed wedding

Wedding bliss for Coco Cake... I just loved doing this pretty wedding for Polly & Lee. Sometimes you just wanna shower yourself in the r...

How Now, Brown Cow?

A brown cow cake and matching mini cupcakes for little Carson's birthday! Cuteness! The cake is dark chocolate with vanilla buttercream ...

New Coco Cake Packaging Is Fun!

I get giddy when I see cute packaging. I must have inherited that from my sis Leanne, who is obsessive about cute packaging! With my recent ...

Bow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippee Yay

Hello, Hunter the dog! How cute is this little bulldog named Hunter?? Elaine, who currently resides in the Yukon, wanted to surprise one of ...

Little Sailor-y Cupcakes For Foggy Book Launch!

For the launch of the adorable and wonderfully designed new children's book Foggy (by the lovely Robin and Judith, artists and designers...

Lil Ducky Cake

Happy 1st Birthday baby Jocelyn! A Lemon Frill cake (lemon cake made with real lemon juice and fresh lemon zest, with lemon creamcheese fros...

Who Let The Dogs Out!

Yep. I did just call my post that. Woof!How much did I love doing this hilarious sheep dog cake and cute little bulldog cupcakes? So much. L...

Pretty Party

One of my very best friends, the one and only Amy P, got engaged on a recent trip to Mexico with her awesome guy, Stephen! Hooray! It only s...

Hello Lehlo!

How cute is my crafty art pal Joanne and her incredible design skills? I love parties with a beautiful design sense, and parties with seriou...

How A Coco Cake Cupcake Gets From A to B

Or, alternately titled... how the cupcake gets baked, cooled, frosted, sent off to Happy Party Land... and leftovers get chomped into by Coc...

Ebi Sushi Cake!

Remember Coco Cake's Salmon Nigiri from a while back? Here's his pal, Ebi! Made for Celina for her boyfriend Roy. Pretty thoughtful ...

Princess Esme The Cutie

One of my dearest friends, Tara M -- her super cute and hilarious daughter Esme turned 3 at the end of February. Eeks, I can hardly believe ...

Super Mario Brothers!

I think I've mentioned on this blog about how I used to be quite a tomboy when I was a kid. Sure, I had Peaches n Cream Barbie too but I...

Downtown Brown Velour & Blim

"Le Petit Dejeuner!"Brown Velour!Soup's on! The Coco Cake cupcake trio I made for the Blim Market.Coco Cake table view... dig ...

Grey Cat!

I've heard of the eponymously monikered Grey Cat from several reliable cat-stoked sources, and I must say Grey Cat may well be the coole...

Coco Cake Cupcakes This Sunday At Blim!

Come and get 'er. Coco Cake cupcakes for sale this Sunday, February 21st, at the monthly and newly expanded Blim Art Market, now being h...

Celebrate Life

Hi everyone.. well I have had the most stressful time lately... my beloved dad had to have emergency heart surgery last Saturday evening. He...

Indie I Do Party Times

My table at the Indie I Do wedding fair!Table view: portfolio of Coco Cake photos!Just Married: stripey blue and yellow themed!My little lov...

Coco Cake Round-Up: Children's Party Times!!

Oh, crazy children of the world. They love to part-ay like it's 1999. And they love to part-ay with their cakes, and their cupcakes! Her...

Dun Dun... Dun Dun...

JAWS!!! AGHHHHH!!!!Seriously though. Jaws was my total absolute nightmare when I was a kid. I was terrified of Jaws. I couldn't even pro...

Announcing... Coco Cake Cupcakes the Sequel!

The beautiful and talented Jamie Anderson of Fort Design designed and created my super awesome and adorable new website and new logo!! I thi...

Coco Cake Specialty Cupcake Bonkers-ness

Is bonkers-ness a word? The incredible Engine Digital placed a mega-order for 8 dozen specialty Coco Cake cupcakes, as New Years presents to...

Hoot Hoot! Brody Turns 2 Years Old!

Brody's 2nd birthday party!How cute is my little nephew Brody??Not even these little orange cupcake owlies are half as cute as Brody!Awe...

Princess Cake & Cupcakes!

A sweet order I had in December-- a cake and matching cupcakes with a princess theme, but also a "brown princess" theme for half-A...

Scottish Animals for a 60th Birthday!

Growing up in Burnaby BC, one of my best friends in the world was my pal Kaila (now Kaleb). Endless hours of hanging out, playing sports tog...

Happy New Year!

2010. Hard to believe. I hope everyone had lots of fun over the holidays...! I always find it hard to go back to work, yes even if work is s...