Cake time

Ever since I saw a photo of a rainbow layer cake

I have been wanting to make one.

I finally had an excuse!

It was my nanny girls' Grandpa's birthday today.

A ripe ol age of 97. He is incredible. Movin and groovin!

Anyway I figured in his 97 years he may have never seen

such a freaking awesome cake before.

And a cake made by me, what could be better?

I used the white cake recipe from The Best Recipe.

Delicious!

I was on quite the sugar high from licking all the bowls

while making the cake last night.

The girls and I had fun making the colors.

We even got fancy and used a real vanilla bean.

I felt so professional.

Letting cakes cool on paper plates seemed like such

a smart idea at the time.

Easy clean up and simple idea.

Until I tried to frost the cake today.

Ya, wont be doing that one again.

Oh and this was classic.

I used my nanny families cake pans and my cake pan.

Pretty sure I thought my pan looked bigger.

Of course I didn't measure or check,

until after I had all the layers stacked while frosting.

It helped make this beautiful leaning effect.

Just a good thing that Grandpa was 97 and

doesn't care if his birthday cake has a weird leaning cliff.

BOOYAH!

Beautiful. And ever so tasty!

I think I am going to make this cake for birthdays whether

the birthday person wants it or not.

It's just so cute and fun!

I should give myself some credit,

it was my first layer cake ever.

But still... the leaning cliff and the terrible decorating.

I still have some major work to do.

*hint* *hint* Cake decorating classes for my birthday.

Anybody listening?!