Sneaker Cake Couture Colab from Japan

Interesting news from Japan and great news for cake lovers, M CAKES, a super original Japanese cake store,  is releasing a brand new kickin’ cake design as part of a collaboration with cake designer Maestro Jumbo Meg and Ms. Sole-Pedia Lil’ Meg from  www.gumminyc.com. The talented team and joined forces with urban culture & fashion inspired brand [M2] for this exclusive cake couture collaboration. M2 will be releasing, the latest icing on the cake collabo-products, 3D sculpted sneaker cakes, in Spring 2011. I’m awestruck by the detail in this shoe! If I lived in in Japan, I would definitely get one of these cakes. Such an awesome…

Xochico, Retire the Cupcake, it’s Conchita time!

My friend in Santa Ana California and I exchange small presents every Christmas. Mine has yet to be sent (and wont be nearly as cool), but before she went to Mexico for the Holidays, she sent me the most adorable coin purse. At first I didn’t really get it. I speak spanish, I’ve been to Mexico, but to me ‘conchita’ meant only “little shell”, then I read the tag “Panaderia Xochico” (xochico bread/pastry shop basically). Then I recognized it for the popular pastry it was, the concha (in chocolate, strawberry or vanilla) and was uber-excited! Had I been more experimental…

The Cupcakes Love You

Valentines Cupcakes! I make cupcakes for lots of reasons, mostly for no reason at all. Most the time.., I don’t even eat them. I can’t handle too much sweet stuff without putting on a pucker face and almost passing out from sugar overdose, not sure why. What that means though is my roommate gets to eat them all himself! My roommate is vegan, so I just make them vegan, especially easy since there’s no eggs or milk in the house anyway. You may think this makes them taste.. well, weird, but they dont at all and they’re way better for…