Rainbow Birthday Cake

My “Baby” had her 4th birthday party with some of her little friends over the weekend. When I asked what she would like her theme to be…she yelled “RAINBOW!” Ok girlie…rainbow it is 🙂 I’m not the most “creative” genius there is {remember, I am “comfy” NOT “creative”)…but I have a willing heart, so I scoured Pinterest for some inspiration.

I truly enjoyed making this special cake for her and thought to share with you. It was a “piece of cake” hehe! For those of you intimidated of making double layer cakes– please don’t be. Again…I am not a baker- just a normal gal. If I can do it, so can you!

There IS something special about a homemade birthday cake, isn’t there? This was one very special cake indeed. The kids LOVED the outside of the cake- then I told them there was a surprise on the inside too…you should have seen their faces. Adorable.

This is where I got my inspiration: The Idea Room and Omnomicon. 

The ingredients: 2 WHITE cake mixes, 2 fluffy white tubs of frosting, 2 cake pans {with liners}, gel food coloring {this stuff is vibrant!}, skittles and marshmallows.  

Make cakes separately in two bowls. This will insure them being even with one another. Follow package instructions. 

Gather up 3 bowls. For the first cake I went in rainbow order. There will be 3 cups of batter per cake. Put 1 cup of batter in each bowl- red, orange and yellow. You will have to mix the red and yellow to make orange. There is no special amount I used- I just squirted in there like so. 

Stir well. Do this again with blue, green and purple {mixing the red and blue together}. 

Line your cake pans with wax paper liner, spray with Pam {or butter}, then pour the red in, on top of that pour the orange then the yellow. It will flatten out like so. 

Pretty neat! 

Bake 30 mins in a 350 oven.

Cool on wire rack until completely cool- if your cakes are still warm, they may crack during this next step!

Frost in the middle then place the other cake on top and frost all over. 

Use Skittles to make a rainbow and to decorate the sides. Use marshmallows for clouds. This was SO easy- and {I thought} it was super adorable. 

I found some cute candles at the grocery store- yea! I didn’t have to draw anything on the cake, lol! 

Happy Birthday Munchkin!!!!! 

Surprise inside! Wohoo! Oh and yes….that is “superman” ice cream. I just could not resist.

One FUN cake!!! I would make this again in a heartbeat…just adorable!!!! 

I had a lot of fun decorating the house for her party.

But again, you aren’t going to see anything fancy with me…. that isn’t my strength. I think us ladies can sometimes get overwhelmed with all of the talent out there on Pinterest {esp with party planning}. For those ladies who are super talented- that is awesome! But for those of us who have different talents, we shouldn’t be intimidated 🙂 If we have a heart for opening up our homes -that is the most important thing. No one comes to see your home anyways {unless its up for sale!}, they come to see the people. 

Another thing I don’t get all excited about? Messes. I popped up a table in the garage and we had some good old fashioned kid fun. That garage was covered in glue and fruit loops by the end of the night ….Oh well?! The kids had fun! It can all be cleaned up. Let em be kids. 🙂