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Happy St. Patrick’s Day with Rainbow Cakes & Cupcakes!

March 16, 2013 By Rose 2 Comments

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Sooo, I didn’t make anything special for St. Patrick’s day this year. I guess I got too busy, or lazy, or well, maybe it’s because we don’t really celebrate St. Patrick’s day.

Nothing against the holiday… it just sort of passes without much acknowledgement at the Atwater house.

BUT – I did make cupcakes for St. Patrick’s Day last year – and I’ve made a handful of rainbow-themed sweets in the past – so I thought I’d highlight them and this would be my way of saying Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

So… here are some fun rainbow cakes and cupcakes for you to peruse:

1. Rainbow Smash Cake (inside and out!) – made with leftover cake just for fun!

2. St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes made with Sour Power Rainbow Candy - these are super easy to make and everybody loves them!

3. Rainbow Ruffles Smash Cake - made to go with the Rainbows & Sprinkles cake below.

4. Rainbow Ruffles Barbie Cake - this was for my daughter… one of my most favorite Barbie cakes ever!

5. Rainbow Messy Ruffles Tiered Cake - I used the messy ruffles technique for this cake… see the how-to video here.

6. Wonky Rainbow and Peace Signs Cake - this cake was huge… and layers and layers of rainbows on the inside too!

7. Rainbow Ruffles & Sprinkles Cake - love, love, love this cake. Simple, but so much fun!

And one more that I thought of after making the collage and since I’m too lazy to hop back over to PicMonkey.com and start over… I decided to just add it to the bottom here.

8. Rainbow Chevron Cake with Bunting. I have so many favorites… but this cake is near the top of the list!

Please click through any of those links for more details about the cakes! And that’s it!!

Wanna share your rainbow treats?

If you do cakes and post on a blog or Facebook, I’d love for you to leave a comment with a link to picture of your rainbow cake or cupcake or cookie … or any rainbow sweet that you’ve made!

Do you have any questions about these cakes? Please leave them in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer and help out!

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Filed Under: Cake, Rainbow, St. Patrick's Day

Ombre Ruffles Princess Cake with Gum Paste Tiara

March 5, 2013 By Rose 4 Comments

I wasn’t expecting it, but I absolutely fell head-over-heels in love with this Ombre Ruffles Princess Cake. I mean in.love.

When my customer Tana sent me this color palette and asked if I could do the inside of the cake (like a rainbow cake) to match, I knew the cake would be fun and different, but I had no idea how unique and beautiful it would turn out to be.

To get all the colors, I had do do a double-barrel cake – six layers of 9″ round cake, stacked super tall!

Normally with a cake this tall and big, I’d do half the layers, then do bubble tea straws and a cardboard round for support, then the other 3 layers (like I did on the Rocket Ship Cake).

But for this cake, I wanted them to be able to cut this cake all the way through and get the full effect (without having to worry about cardboard in the middle), so I baked and stacked these cakes 2 or 3 days in advance, then I crumb coated really well and let them settle in the frig! That way any bumps and bulging could be trimmed away before the decorating started!

Anyway… I shared this picture on Facebook of the two pictures side-by-side and I think the colors are pretty close!

So, after talking with Tana some more, her little girl wanted a princess cake but Tana didn’t want to go with a “character” cake.

So we had the idea to do matching delicate ombre ruffles on the outside to make the cake more girly and princess-y… and to make it “match” the inside.

She also asked about doing a tiara topper and having it be blue – I thought it was a perfect combination! You can see how to make this gum paste tiara here (step-by-step pictures!).

When it all came together, I was thrilled with the results! It was girly and pretty and delicate, but it also had the “WOW” factor!! Don’t you agree?

As I stated before, this cake had six layers (about 1.25″ inches each) of 9″ round cakes. With all the frosting in between layers, it was over 8″ tall.

The cake was white almond sour cream cake filled with vanilla buttercream (plus a little almond extract).

The cake was covered and decorated with homemade marshmallow fondant that had a tiny bit of tylose kneaded in to make the ruffles stiffen up. The tiara was gum paste.

Do you have questions about this cake? Please leave them in the comments and I’ll answer!

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Filed Under: Birthday Cakes, Cake, Girl Birthday, Rainbow Tagged With: Princess

Rainbow Chevron Birthday Cake & Smash Cake

July 24, 2012 By Rose 24 Comments

I’ve been dying to share this cake with you for a few weeks, but I was determined to post them in the order that I made them and I ~~was~~ am still waaaay behind! But anyway… I finally caught up to this cake! I’ve told you before that I love all things rainbow and I loved the idea of rainbows combined with the chevron pattern.

I attempted to use this chevron tutorial from Jessicakes for the pattern (although it didn’t work nearly as well for me) but I ended up using a tiny square cookie cutter to cut the pattern (thanks to a suggestion from my husband – yay for creative hubbys!) and finally got it done!

For the name, I used the Fox Run Alphabet cutters and I cut tiny dots using a number #12 round tip to trim out the plaque.

And for the bunting… those are shish kabob (or kebab?) skewers, bakers twine… and guess what for the flags? Bright/Bold Post It Notes! They come in so many bright colors these days… they perfectly matched the other rainbow colors!

I also did a small matching smash cake. She wanted it really simple and not too much fondant, so I did 3 stripes for it on top of vanilla buttercream.

Overall… I was in love with this cake!! It was just so bright and happy and colorful and fun!! Dontcha think?

This cake was (3) 9″ layers of vanilla cake on the bottom and (2) 6″ layers of strawberry cake on top. Both were filled with vanilla frosting and the decorations were homemade marshmallow fondant. This post is linked up at Creative Thursday!

Do you have any questions about these cakes? Please leave them in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer and help out!

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