My little girl turned five this past week. Five! In the midst of extensive Christmas baking, I took a break from all this green and red and peppermint and made a perfectly perfect girly girl cake.
With Audrey’s help of course! The last couple years I have let her “design” her cake; she tells me what colors and themes she wants and I do my best to make it happen.
Like this Rose Cake. And this Neapolitan Cake.
Her requests were pretty simple:
1. Lots of flowers
2. Every color in the rainbow.
3. Lots of frosting. (but no chocolate cake because her brother doesn’t like chocolate and she is very thoughtful like that)
I even let her pick the cake stand, which just happens to be one of my all time favorites. I found it in a specialty shop near our new home. The owner of the shop did not want to let it go! Even though there was a price tag on it, they had been using it for display for so long it had become part of the ambiance. I tried so hard to not show my desperation, but in my head I was screaming, “I HAVE TO HAVE THAT CAKE STAND!”
I think her soul heard my souls cries.
Do you think I am being too dramatic? Let’s see… what do most women love?
Ah yes. Shoes. Pretend I was talking about a pair of Jimmy Choo’s.
Back to the cake. Audrey did request a Rosette Cake, but… and this is hard for me to admit… sometimes I get tired of making that cake! So I asked her if it would be ok to change things up a little tiny bit.
She refused.
I asked sweetly. She said no. She crossed her arms and stood up tall and looked me in the eye.
“I promise I will still try to make it pretty!” I pleaded.
“Oh sure mom! Whatever you want.” And she happily flounced away in her princess dress.
So this is my “compromise”. I didn’t make the full on rosette shape, but still tried to make it “flowery”. And it has every color in the rainbow. Except Indigo.
Cause like, I prefer my rainbows with six colors ok?
Audrey loved her cake and loved being a princess for a whole day.
She loved the attention and the gifts.
But most of all, I hope she loved the love.
Happy Birthday Sweety!
Here is a recipe for How to Make a Rainbow Cake.
I shared a picture of Audrey blowing out the candles on this cake on my Instagram account. I am iambaker.
amanda, so beautiful, and more so since it’s so full of love! I love making the cakes for my kiddos’ birthdays and I hope its something they will always remember as they get older. Merry Christmas!
This looks like the perfect, pretty cake for a 5 year old. Happy birthday to your daughter and Merry Christmas!
What size decorating tool did you use?
So lovely and definitely befitting a proper princess birthday! The love is shining through. 🙂
Awesome work done…
I want to bake this cake. Can i have a tutorial please??
Beautiful please i want the recipes
This is such a perfect cake for a birthday princess! It’s lovely! And I think I would have been begging for that cake stand, too. Gorgeous!!
Oh I just love this colorful cake! You give me the best ideas — I am excellent at copying others work but not great at coming up with my own ideas. So is this like a half rose? Whenever you have time I would love to see a little tutorial or detail on the piping. Thank you for your sweet site and Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Can you post how you made that flower design? My daughter wants this cake for her birthday
This month. Is there a tutorial?
Its very similar to my rose cake tutorial, just simply make a smaller “rosette”.