SOUTH COAST PLAZA: THE HOLIDAY SUITE!

South Coast Plaza started off the cheer with these festive cupcakes for their private Holiday Suite last Black Friday! These little morsels ...

GIVING THANKS!

A sweet customer of mine wanted to bring something delicious as house warming gifts as she went to go back home to visit family and friends ...

Orange Pourover Cake

Even if you're still full from Thanksgiving, life -- and baking -- must go on.  And there's no better recipe to continue with  than ...

Gingerbread Houses for Kids

There are plenty of amazing websites out there devoted to those perfect, architectural-wonder gingerbread houses. This is not one of them. M...

Homemade Gingerbread House {Recipe}

We love decorating gingerbread houses at our house. But admittedly, I'd never made them from scratch before this season. I was sure my a...

Black lace, skulls and pearls cupcakes

Lately, I've notice an upward trend in the use of skulls for bridal showers & weddings (till death do us part). I think they'd a...

Egg White Royal Icing Recipe

Royal Icing is the icing that dries hard for cookie decorating. I usually make my Royal Icing with Meringue Powder . But sometimes I'll ...

Chocolate coins finished with edible lustre dust

I find these chocolate coins difficult to find throughout the year, however in the lead up to Christmas they seem to be everywhere, so I sto...

Coco Cake Land Lately

Follow Coco Cake Land on Instagram!  Plenty of behind the scenes cakey times and little snippets of Coco Cake Land life. The top photo featu...

Glamour Strawberries - from Kiwicakes test kitchen

This summer has started with strawberries in abundance! Use white candy melts for a really white snow-like coating. These melts are so simp...

Marshmallow Balls - from Kiwicakes test kitchen

These yummy truffles are perfect to take to summer dinner parties and picnics. It's a good recipe to have up your sleeve at this time of...

National Cake Day

Yes, today is National Cake Day! I had no idea we had a National Day for Cake, thanks to Karen from the blog Trilogy Edibles now I know. K...

Kaben's Fifth Birthday - Snake Edition

Well, all good things have to come to a close, and so it goes with the trifecta of cakes for Kaben's birthday.  The last reptile on disp...

Peacock feather "How to" for cupcakes & cakes

This lovely tutorial comes to us from Autumn Carpenter (my gorgeous friend I met in the USA last year). You can find both of Autumn designs ...

Pretty Pink Ruffle Mini Cupcakes

Here in Vancouver, the days are getting colder, the air crisp and the sidewalks slippery with a layer of icy frost. Can you believe December...

3D Sparkling Snowflakes - from Kiwicakes test kitchen

Today I had a play with another new Wilton chocolate mold. They have released a freestanding snowflake design just in time for Christmas. I...