How-To: Rainbow tiedye cake

The last birthday cake I made, warranted a lot of "oohs" and "aahs" from the kids as they cut into it and saw the rainbow of colors inside. I thought I'd share the step-by-step, since it's really painfully simple!

Start with your favorite cake batter, and some food coloring. I prefer gel, but liquid is fine, too. In these pictures I used strawberry cake batter, which isn't really the best choice, since it's already pink.. but it worked in the end.

Divide the batter into little bowls, and add a different color to each.

Pour one color batter into your prepared pan, covering the bottom of the pan if possible.

Continue with your next color, pour it in the center of the first color, like so:

And do that again...

And again...

You get the picture...

Honestly, that's all there is to it. Pour slowly so the colors don't mix, tap your pan on the counter a couple of times to help it settle, and all you need to do is bake the cake as you normally would.

Hopefully, it will come out something like this, and your kids will be thrilled:

Ta-daaa!

Baby shower cake: Fernanda

This is a  cake with tropical flavors, perfect for a spring baby shower. It consists of layers of pineapple, orange, lemon, passion fruit and banana cake, with banana, vanilla and lemon fillings, butter cream and melon-flavored fondant. Flavor wise, it's probably one of the most elaborate cakes I ever baked. This is one of my favorite cakes ever, even though the marbled fondant originally was a mistake. I mixed vanilla and melon fondant to make the flavor less intense, and had a hard time getting an even color. Then I realized that marbling would be really cute, so I stuck with it.
The baby , blocks and teddy bear are gumpaste, everything else fondant. Everything is, of course, edible.

Baby Shower cake : Brie

Brie's baby shower cake was so much fun to make! The only instructions I got was "just make it girly, and vanilla!" So I went all out with the pink and the hearts. The cake is French Vanilla with buttercream and white chocolate filling, with melon-flavored fondant.
This was a large cake, estimated to feed around 60 people.

Baby Shower Cake: Elisa

Elisa's baby shower cake was a simple, two-tier white chocolate cake with fruit and buttercream filling and melon-flavored fondant. The baby and the little flowers are gumpaste. This cake was made on fairly short notice, so the flowers are glued on with white buttercream instead of tylose gel. It leaves white marks if you're not careful, but is great in a pinch when you can't wait for the tylose gel to dry.