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!
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
My daughter wanted a rainbow cake for her 4th birthday party. I tried to look for something online, but couldn’t find anything that resembled what I was picturing. I decided to at least start with a round springform pan, I only had one size and I think it is a 10″ one. I cut the … Read more
This idea came from the M&M website for creative cakes and was pretty easy to assemble. A batch of cupcakes with plain white frosting, rows of M&Ms and marshmallow clouds. I first individually frosted each cupcake and then assembled them on a white board. There were a few spots where the gap between the cupcakes … Read more
Last year I made my daughter a sunshine birthday cake for her first birthday because she always liked to hear You Are My Sunshine before bedtime. This year she really liked Somewhere Over the Rainbow, so I decided to keep with our song theme and made her a Rainbow Cake. I baked a cake in … Read more
The theme was My Little Pony for my daughters 4th birthday. I had some ideas for creative cakes so this is my cake. There were a lot of people so I made 1 chocolate and 1 vanilla cake. For 1 rainbow bake a 1 9″ round cake and a 1 6″ round cake. You will … Read more