Number 1 Rainbow Cake

This is a special cake for a mummy celebrating her little girl's 1st birthday. She wanted to have a cheerful, colourful cake for her rainbow baby. Her son had sadly passed away from Kawasaki disease a couple years ago. We are in the same mothers' chat group and it was heartbreaking to go through the loss with her. She now thankfully has a happy reason to celebrate, with her little girl turning one year old! 

Number 1 Rainbow roses cake

The cake is made from two sheet cakes of decadent Devil's Food Cake, filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache and Callebaut dark chocolate Crispearls for that added crunch. 

dark chocolate ganache and crunchy chocolate balls

I don't have a number 1 shaped pan, so I cut the sheet cakes up and pieced them into the correct shape, making up 3 layers of cake, and 2 layers of filling. There were enough cake scraps to fill a Ziplock freezer bag, but those will be turned into yummy cake pops later on. 

hard not to eat some of those scraps!

I dyed vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream six colours of the rainbow, and then spooned them into piping bags fitted with 1M piping nozzles. I wish I had just dyed larger batches of buttercream yesterday, instead of having to do the work twice, since these were pretty much the same pastel rainbow colours as the un-Unicorn cake from yesterday!

pastel ROYGB in buttercream!

Anyway, I wanted to do "random" colourful buttercream roses all over the cake instead of organized rows of roses. 

carefully piping buttercream rosettes, colour by colour

It took a bit more time cuz I had to keep alternating between the colours after piping every rose, but I love the overall effect! A cheerful, "messy" and interesting pastel rainbow all over the cake!

pink block lettering

rainbow lettering name plaque

I cut lettering out of fondant for the birthday girl's name, one in block letters and another in pastel rainbow letters that went on a fancy plaque. I tried them both out on the cake and decided that the name on the the plaque looked much nicer :)

lots of rainbow buttercream rosettes

I am so so happy that this cake brought smiles, joy and happy memories to everyone celebrating Kayle's birthday.  It was indeed a rainbow baby birthday to remember. Happy 1st birthday, dear baby Kayle!!

Happy 1st birthday, Kayle!
(pic courtesy of her mummy)