Rainbow Layer Cake

Jamie and my adorable niece Charlotte is coming to visit us for her 6th birthday. (She chose visiting us for the weekend over having a birthday party!) We're going to have a little party for her up here and when my sister-in-law Katie asked if we could get a cake for her, I thought it would be fun to do something special. Enter the rainbow layer cake. (I did try an easier version once before.) Not sure if you've seen this all over the pinterest-sphere, but it's a beautiful cake with six colored layers - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple - with white icing in between and on the outside. So it looks like a plain, white cake, but is all rainbow when you cut into it. It is definitely more work than a regular cake, but worth is if you have a little kid to impress.

Ingredients:

Two packages of white cake (pick whatever kind you want)

-follow the instructions on the back and use just the egg whites if that's an option - it will lead to crisper colors

Alternative Birthday Cake

I had a surprise 30th birthday party for Jamie last weekend (he was completely surprised and it was really fun). He is not a huge fan of cake and prefers pie, but pie is not really easy cocktail party food. I remembered this post from Cup of Jo and went and got three round cheeses of different sized and made a little birthday cake of cheese. This is good for cheese lovers and cake averse.

Fancy Birthday Cake

It's my dear friend Charlie's 25th birthday so I wanted to make him a special birthday cake. I rarely go on Pinterest, but there are fancy cakes all over the place. I love the look of the ombre cakes - where there are like 8 layers inside going from one shade gradually lighter, lighter, lighter. I saw this one and thought I could try to copy it, but make it a little easier. I loved the look of the sprinkles all over the outside. I opted for just three layers, and a simpler color scheme - red, orange, yellow. I think everyone liked it!

Ingredients:
2 boxes white cake mix (and whatever they require)
2 containers frosting
Food die
Rainbow nonpareil sprinkles