Rainbow Wish Cake
Rainbow-themed first birthday cake decorated with colorful star rainbows and frosted clouds, with the baby's name written on top.
Ingredients
8 x 2 inch round cake pans (for baking the cake)
1
Buttercream frosting (see page 118) (for spreading and assembling)
to taste
Sky blue food coloring (for rainbow)
to taste
Pink food coloring (for rainbow)
to taste
Purple food coloring (for rainbow)
to taste
Leaf green food coloring (for rainbow)
to taste
Lemon yellow food coloring (for rainbow)
to taste
Cake board (for placing the cake)
1
Aluminum foil (to wrap the cake board)
to taste
Instructions
1
Bake the cake
Bake and cool 1 layer of cake, 1½ inches high. Cut it in half, stack the two halves with frosting, cut side down, on the cake board cut to size and wrapped in aluminum foil (leave space at both ends for clouds)
2
Apply frosting and mark
Spread the frosting evenly and smoothly; mark rainbow sections 3/8 inch wide with a toothpick
3
Decorate the rainbow
Pipe stars in the rainbow sections using a size 16 piping tip. Write the name using a size 4 piping tip
4
Decorate the clouds
Pipe spherical clouds using a size 12 piping tip. Serves 10
