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
This rainbow cake is the first cake I did at the cake classes I am taking. It uses Wilton supplies and techniques. I started with a 2 layer 9″ round Duncan Hines strawberry cake that cooled, was chilled, trimmed and filled with vanilla store bought pudding. I then covered the cake with light blue thin … Read more
Obviously this isn’t an original cake idea. My friend and I were looking all over this cake gallery and this site at cake ideas for her sons 1st birthday and she LOVED the caterpillar cakes. So she asked me if I could do this one. She wanted it to be the colors of the rainbow … Read more
I wanted to give my best friend and her daughter a surprise birthday cake to share. I had a slight brain wave and came up with the idea of a Rainbow Surprise Birthday Cake, stacked layers with each one been a different colour. I did one yellow, orange, blue, purple, red and green. Once cooled … Read more
My daughter turned 5 and she wanted a purple rainbow cake. I decided that the rainbow wouldn’t be on the outside, but rather the inside of the cake. So I baked 6 different round cakes each a different color. I used a raspberry filling I made to place between each layer. Once the 6 layers … Read more
When my daughter turned 2 years old, I wanted to show her what a little rainbow she was in our lives! We planned a Rainbow Birthday Party, with a six layer Rainbow Birthday Cake at the center. Since I enjoy decorating cakes more than baking them from scratch, I made the cake out of 3 … Read more
My daughter turned 3 in September and since about May she has talked about rainbows non-stop so we thought that would make a great idea for a birthday cake. We looked at lots of pictures on the Internet but in the end did our own Rainbow Cake with Pot of Gold Birthday Cake using a … Read more
This Homemade Rainbow Birthday Cake is my 1st attempt to do the rainbow cake. It was requested by my party planner. Actually, I bake cakes as my hobby and like to try new designs and taste. So I took this opportunity to bake this cake. It’s quite difficult to do this cake because you have … Read more