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 idea came from my 5-year-old and my husband. She wanted a rainbow birthday cake for her 5th birthday party and my hubby suggested using Skittles for the colors. I just made a HUGE round cake, cut it in half and cut the inside of the half circle out to form the shape. Then using … Read more
My daughter was really into the Care Bears for her fifth birthday, so we thought of creative cakes and together we made this rainbow cake. I wont lie, it wasn’t very easy. But it was well worth the efforts. The cake was roughly three feet long and two/three feet high. We took three rectangular cakes, … Read more
I spent a lot of time looking at other cake ideas and just put together what I liked the most for a Rainbow Birthday Cake . To start with I made up the cake batter, I make one from scratch but you can use a packet mix too and then separated it into 6 bowls … Read more
For my daughters seventh birthday she searched for creative cakes and finally decided that she wanted a rainbow cake. So we made the cake rainbow on the outside and the inside. First I used a white cake mix and divided the batter in to six bowls. I then tinted each bowl a different color. Then … Read more
I made this rainbow cake for my daughter’s 8th birthday. She had a very generic unicorn theme with pastel colors and rainbows. I searched for and found the general idea for this cake online (I can’t remember where I saw it). I am all about making homemade cakes that are pretty but fairly easy and … Read more
Ive done a version of rainbow cupcakes for my children’s classes for each of the past 4 years. This year, when thinking of more ideas for creative cakes, I found some rainbow colored fruit leather at one of those mall specialty candy shops. Sure a lot easier than fashioning them yourself out of flattened Starburst … 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