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. 🙂
That shamrock in the middle is too awesome!!!! Glad I found your site today.
Absolutely awesome!! I’m obsessed with your blog(s), they are so much fun to read and very informative & inspiring!!! I just wanted to share some funny things we have common. My name is Aubrey (I think your daughter’s name is Audrey), I have son named Kolton (i think you also have son Colton), I’m due with my second baby in 32 days, and i’m also obsessed with rainbows!! Best of luck with your delivery!
awesome, so creative! let’s sclebrate! 🙂 This time I did a guinness hat for st Patrick’s day!
I love you and your surprise cakes! I am so excited to see pictures of your new little one.
Oh my goodness- the inside of this cake is fantastic! So creative- thanks for sharing!
YAY BABY!
Oh, and the cake is pretty too. 😉
Wow! That is amazing. It looks so great!!
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Amazing cake! So cheerful! I bet it was a lot of work. I can’t imagine! Congratulations on the new baby!!!
Holy cow!! I cannot believe this cake. I am just stunned at the shamrock, which totally looks like a shamrock by the way! And all this at this far along in your pregnancy? Are you joking me? I would so be on the couch eating girl scout cookies. Who am I kidding, I totally am doing that and I’m not even pregnant. Ha!
Anyway, congrats and enjoy your last days while you await your newest reason to smile!
Love this! Those rainbows are too cute, and I just knew there had to be some type of surprise inside the cake!