You guys aren’t messin around.
When I placed the idea out there.. the idea that I would create three different cakes from one decorators tip… I had NO idea what I was thinking.
The most commonly requested tip was #233.
The grass tip.
Most commonly used to make grass. In green.
Grass.
And nothing else.
I was stumped.
I didn’t even own one. I had to go and buy one.
(actually, I bought four, which really helped when decorating all these cakes!)
I wanted to make sure all these cakes served a purpose, so this cake is for some friends that just welcomed another baby into their lives. A sweet little boy!
I held the tip at a 90 degree angle, applied pressure and make slight circles with the tip. Then made smaller ‘stacks’ in the inner circles.
While I will never claim to be an artist (I have too much respect for the people that are!) I really liked how this technique came out.
I hope its self explanatory, but if not, here is my very technical descriptions.
I took the frosting and made swirly lines and stuff.
And while I can honestly tell you that all of these cakes are very easy to execute, this was probably the easiest.
And my favorite. I don’t know why… maybe because it has all the colors in the rainbow? And I am obsessed with rainbows?
To make this cake I just used the grass tip as you normally would, but didn’t extend the tip to achieve the long grass. Just short little dabs of frosting.
Thanks for pushing me beyond what I knew! I had fun making these cakes and hope that our friends and family will have fun eating them!!
So what do you think I should tackle next???
Do you have any recipes for making all natural food coloring? I’ve been looking but not able to find much that has actually been tested
I love the “Starry Night” feel of your sunshine cake. I would love you to try to do something with either tip 67 (because I have never found out what it is for exactly) or 352 (because I think it has the potential to be so much more but I just can’t figure out what.
I love this cake. It looks like you glued hundreds of tiny pom-poms on it. I have to show this to my daughter…she’s going to flip over it!!!
These cakes made me smile so much! I love the slightly impressionistic look of the sunset cake – visually stunning, and the multicoloured dotty one reminds me a lot of a millefiori glass paperweight – beautiful. I’m in awe of your creativity!
How cute! Thanks for the idea! Trackback: http://blog.joyhey.com/2012/01/17/inspiration-rainbow-party/
Silly question I’m sure… Did you use an icing base on the 3rd cake? Or did you make the rainbow pattern directly on the cake?
Hi…love the dotted rainbow cake! Going to make it! I have a question about the cake itself……how is it so tall? Do you use special pans? How many layers? Do you have a favorite recipe that rises this nicely? Thanks for any info….it will be for my 1st grand daughters 1st birthday! Thx!
Hi Amanda! I just love your cakes! So gorgeous! I just wanted to let you know that another blogger recreated that same rainbow cake! I looked around her post but didn’t see if she gave credit to you but she did say she was on Pinterest. You can view her post here if you’re interested:
http://mirrormirror.typepad.com/mirror_mirror/2012/05/easy-cake-decorating-idea.html
After the most recent drama over stealing of photos, I wanted to make sure you were given proper credit if it was necessary!
Have a great day!
Thank you so much!
The rainbow cake looks like the Mome Raths on Alice in Wonderland. Love it!
I found your blog through a pin on Pinterest. I made the very colorful cake(using a star tip) for my grand daughters’ birthday! Love the cake ! Thanks for the idea that was pinned!