Take a look at these cool homemade Rainbow cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
I got the idea for this cake for my daughter’s fourth birthday from a cake book for creative cakes from the 70’s. I adapted it a little and it turned out better than I had hoped. It takes one round cake to make it and since we have a lot of family that come to … Read more
You may have heard of “rainbow” cakes. I haven’t. Stumbled upon a professional version of this cake on pinterest and freaked out. Thought…this will be easier…no intricate details. True, but still a little time consuming. You are going to need to freeze these layers and you need to make your own frosting. I used canned and … Read more
For my daughter’s 5th birthday party she wanted a rainbow theme. I took that idea and went to town with it! For the rainbow birthday cake, I wanted to have a little surprise. On the outside, it simply looks like a white frosted cake with rainbow M&M’s, but inside it was a six layer rainbow cake!. … Read more
This rainbow birthday cake was so fun to make! I started with a 9″ round pan and ended up making SIX layers of cake! I used buttercream frosting between the layers and to frost the outside. Because it was really tall, I needed to use wooden dowels in the cake to keep it from tipping. … Read more
It was my daughter’s birthday again and this year she had requested a chocolate rainbow cake. I looked around on the web and found a few rainbow cakes that I liked the look of and thought wouldn’t be too hard, but was a bit bored by the idea of it being just a chocolate cake … Read more
My four year old daughter announced that she’d like a rainbow cake for her going away party. I started to do some internet research; I had no idea that it was such a phenomenon! I knew I wanted to make the cake rainbow, as well as the frosting. The shape was going to be difficult; … Read more
This year, we had a tie dye birthday for my 4yr old daughter’s birthday. Every year I like to make a cake that fits with the theme. So right away I knew that I was going to make the inside of the cake, rainbow with some sort of tie dye effect. So I figured I … Read more
This Rainbow Cake is a French vanilla layered cake filled with French vanilla pudding and iced with a homemade vanilla butter cream using 1/2 butter & 1/2 shortening. I added a tiny bit of Wilton’s royal blue to make it the sky coloring. It’s important to ice your cake using thin consistency icing. To make … Read more
This Rainbow Cake was created for my school’s silent auction and raised 17 dollars for a local charity. The cake was a white cake which I divided in six colored then different colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). I then put half of the colors in one mold end, the rest in the other … Read more
I made this Rainbow Cake for my daughter’s second birthday, which had a rainbow theme. For the cake layers, I mixed up the equivalent of three white cake batters (from scratch) and then tinted each of the 6 layers with Wilton gel food coloring. I made red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple layers. I … Read more
My daughter decided she wanted a “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” third birthday party, but didn’t want anything to do with Dorothy or the Wizard of Oz, so that threw out half my ideas right there. lol. I decided to do a cake with a stand up Royal Icing rainbow on it. I found a pattern … Read more
I made this coolest Rainbow Cake for my sister’s daughter’s 3rd birthday. And she is a very struggling girl but we love her very much. She doesn’t like to play with her toys. She is very different. So I thought, thought, thought. What I can make for her. Finally I decided to make a Rainbow. … Read more