Rainbow Birthday Cake

This cake was just fun.

Though I'm not sure you can avoid fun when you're making a cake for a toddler's 3rd birthday.

Bright colors combined with the look on her face when she saw it = happiness.

I felt like a kid rolling out and dying fondant for the rainbow.

Then I had some extra (everything), so I made little rainbow cupcakes.

It's chocolate cake with fresh whipped cream and strawberries. I love anything with fresh whipped cream. So yummy.

No Reason Red Velvet

I never “got” Red Velvet cake. I went to school in the South, where it’s a huge deal and I never particularly liked it either. I figured out why though. Every time I ate red velvet cake while living in the South, it was some supermarket store bought assembly line cake.

When I finally got inspiration to attempt it myself, I learned “the key” (or at least my key) to amazing red velvet cake: homemade cream cheese frosting. Without it, red velvet cake is just cake made with vinegar (which makes it less appealing to me personally), but WITH it, WITH IT Red Velvet cake is cake and cheesecake combined, and anyone who knows me knows I can eat that all day.