Saturday 28th October: Rainbow Cake

Whilst in San Francisco I made a spectrum cake to look like the Apple Mac "spinning wheel of doom" icon with a rainbow of layers in the same colours as their logo.  It took an evening of mixing and individually baking each sponge and then a morning of mixing and spreading icing to build the tower block!  Here are all the stages and the final assembly with icing on the whole exterior and sugar crystals to make the wheel pattern.

My blog has just hit it's 10th birthday so I'll dedicate this entry to such an auspicious anniversary!

Find the recipe I followed for quantities and method here.................. albeit without the pink layer because there's no pink in the Apple logo.  Thank God because I don't think it could have got any higher!

See archive blog posts on Rainbow cakes here, here,  here and here.

Friday 1st April: Rainbow Birthday Cake

From one epic culinary tale to another - this immense rainbow cake by Lena.  It was delivered by stealth and hidden in my front garden by the secret squirrel a.k.a "NiceNutmegs".  The surprise of finding it was only the first wonder.  I cannot work out how she has made this.  Each cylinder is absolutely perfectly formed.  Each moist spectrum layer is sandwiched together with lemon icing to form the upright pillar.  All together, the letter candles spell out "HAPPY BIRTHDAY".  Even the package and wrapping is a work-of-art in itself with iridescent foil and multicolour ribbon.  It must have taken so long to devise and prepare, I feel incredibly honoured.  Lena is a LEGEND.