Birthday cake number two was unveiled today…

And, when it was cut…what an impact it made.

I found this amazing cake on Anna Spiro’s gorgeous design blog, Absolutely Beautiful Things. It was originally posted on Count It All Joy, where you can find very detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make this. This was not a hard cake to make but it took me a whole lot longer than I was expecting! I guess the sheer size of this meant a whole lot of cooking and a whole lot of icing. In hindsight I simply didn’t allocate enough time. I cooked the cakes yesterday when I had an hour before I had to leave for a party. It took an hour and a half from start to last cake being cooked.  Opps…a little late for the party.  Then again this morning when I was icing the cake I didn’t anticipate that it would take close to an hour to make the icing, sandwich each layer together, then finish the whole cake with a crumb coat followed by a final layer of icing. But the results and the ‘ahhhh!’ when the cake was cut made it all worth while. Hamish loved the gorgeous rainbow layers.