The smiley, happy, silly rainbows on this cake are totally inspired by those amazing frosting covered sugar cookies you get at the bakery. Or at least, at the grocery store bakery that I would frequent in my youth.
Those cookies were the only thing that made shopping trips tolerable for my mother when I was young. The promise of just one of those delectable cookies was enough to exhilarate my senses and make me… well… behave.
Its funny how sugar still triggers that emotional response in me today!
Anywho… here are some over the top, crazy, supposed to make your heart happy rainbows.
All of those rainbows are pure sugar highs… courtesy of my favorite buttercream recipe of all time.
Since this is a St. Patrick’s Day cake I actually made hundreds of gold coins for the base of the rainbows. I just made my homemade sprinkles, only bigger. But since I made them bigger they were taking forever to dry and I got impatient.
Hence, fluffy frosting clouds.
Next year I will plan better.
I mean, I probably wont, but I can pretend.
And then, because it seems to be physically impossible for me to make a cake without a surprise inside, I decided to add a shamrock.
Seriously… I made so many impulsive choices on this cake! I dont know what I was thinking.
Like instead of a bright green jolly shamrock, mine is really, really dark. I thought it would be a fun to make Nigella’s Guiness chocolate cake (beer… St. Patrick’s Day… it seemed like a good idea) and then just add a little bit of green so it wouldn’t be IN YOUR FACE green.
Like with this St. Patty’s Day cake.
I will show you what I mean.
Its dark.
And mostly resembles a shamrock.
At least it tastes fantastic!! (white cake recipe here)
This was one TOUGH cake. I really dont think a tutorial is possible because I need a full year to forget how much work it was.
Sorta like having a baby. Which I will be doing in 17 days. (scheduled C-Section)
TMI for a baking blog???
Sorry. 🙂
LOVEIN that cake girlie! Totally reminds me of the rainbow shirt that I LIVED in during the early 80’s (I think it was the early 80’s).
Can’t believe you’ve only got 17 days to go! I’m SO excited for you!!
Such an awesome cake! You’re amazing! Happy soon to be baby day!
Holy Guacamole! I was already impressed and then I scrolled down. I can’t believe the Shamrock in the middle. Don’t even mention that the color is too dark, ANYONE would be completely blown away!!
AMAZING! I want to taste that! :p
Your talent and imagination astound me! Great job, again! The shamrock center is incredible, and I love the bright, cheery rainbows around the outside!
Wow, awesome work.
Absolutely impressive.
Wishing you s lovely weekend ♥
I LOVE IT. Wow!!
Amazing as usual. I so want to make this. Thanks for the inspiration.
that’s soooo cool! I need to start thinking like that! awesome!!!
Fantastic looking cake!! When will they invent taste-o-vision?!
Congrats on the upcoming baby! Mine turns 11 months next week.