Thursday, December 13, 2012

Rainbow Petal Cake {Virtual Baby Shower!}


I had a lot of fun making this cake,
because it is for a very special occasion...
a Virtual Baby Shower for the fabulous Meaghan 
from The Decorated Cookie & Edible Crafts!

Meaghan just welcomed her darling baby girl, Violet, into the family.
I'm excited to be included in a group of creative bloggers that are celebrating
with lots of RAINBOW treats!


Meaghan is seriously awesome!
First of all, she is amazingly creative. 
She's all famous and stuff (have you seen her cookbook, Sugarlicious?)
and she has been so encouraging and sweet to me!

She was one of the first bloggers to feature one of my cakes,
and I was so thrilled that she liked something I made! Little old ME!


Don't you love rainbows? I sure do!
Have you seen my Rainbow Tie Dye Cake?

To create this Rainbow Petal Cake for Meaghan
I combined one of my favorite decorating techniques with pastel rainbow colors.
I could just stare at these pretty colors all day.

Here is my palette of buttercream frosting.
I filled plastic decorating bags, then snipped off the ends.


To learn how to make this petal design (it's easier than it looks!),
go check out my tutorial here!

 
I wanted to make the inside of the cake a girly pink,
so I whipped up my favorite Strawberry Cake recipe.


Congratulations, Meaghan!


Here are all the awesome bloggers participating in the virtual baby shower...
Go see all their fabulous rainbow goodies!


1.  Vanilla Bean BakerBaby's First Christmas
2.  Not Your Momma's Cookie - Rainbow Swaddled Baby Cookies
3.  Crazy for CrustRainbow Peanut Butter Cookie Cups
4.  Dollhouse Bake Shoppe - Rainbow Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
5.  Creative FoodRainbow Pancakes
6.  Hoosier HomemadeRainbow Jar Cupcakes
7.  Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons - Rainbow Smores Pops
8.  Pink Little CakeBaby at the End of the Rainbow Cake
9.  Love From the OvenRainbow Cake Pop Cupcakes
10. Munchkin MunchiesRainbow Balloon Cookies
11. The Baked EquationRainbow Baby Shower Cookies
12. SweetologyMarshmallow Baby Pops
13. Sugar SwingsRainbow Madeleines
14. Pint Sized BakerRainbow Meringue Tarts
15. Bird on a Cake - Rainbow Petal Cake
16. Haniela'sRainbow Centerpiece
17. Miss Candiquik - Marshmallow Baby Bottles
 
 I share my recipes & tutorials at these fun link parties.

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70 comments:

  1. That is seriously thee cutest cake ever! I made your tie-dye cake for my sister and she LOVED it! I think I might make my other sister this one for her upcoming birthday :) thanks for sharing your beautiful talent!
    (Oh and ps, I have just been called to the Tampa Florida mission and I am from Utah! I've been following you for a while and just noticed that you live in Florida! Anyways, just thought that I'd share! :))

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  2. This cake is stunningly gorgeous. You are a cake genius, really!

    Loulou

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  3. Looks really yum! Congrats to Meaghan ^^ and love to baby Violet!
    You have got my favourite food blog x) xx

    http://jadesmoke04.blogspot.com/

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  4. This is so fun, I absolutely adore this cake!

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  5. this really turned out great! love the strawberry cake too!

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  6. Completely amazing........I just stared at this for a few minutes with my jaw on the floor. Glad to contribute to this awesome collection with you!

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  7. So completely gorgeous!! WOW!

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  8. This is so beautiful!

    In your tutorial you do one row then make your petals, add another row & so on...on this did you do one row on a diagonal or did you make one vertical row using all the different colors? It looks like you should be able to use one color to make the row on the diagonal to make it go a little faster?

    So so pretty.

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    1. Thanks, Jenny! I did this cake in vertical rows as well, which took a while with all the colors. Your idea of doing diagonal lines is great...it probably would have saved me some time! :)

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  9. Your cake is absolutely PERFECT and beautiful! I love the vivid rainbow colors! I wish this wasn't a virtual shower so that I could have a slice:)

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  10. This is beyond gorgeous!!! I love it! Almost too gorgeous to eat :)

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  11. it's so gorgeous, i could stare at it all day too!

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  12. oooh ... I love this Robin! Almost too pretty to eat :)

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  13. THANK YOU!!!! You know I love your genius, and this is perfection!!! You have no idea how much this wonderful, surprise rainbowy shower means to me, it just made my whole day! And I wish we were all in one room so I could cry and hug you all. THANK YOU!! And Violet just said "gee goo blech" which I think means "Thank you!" too!!!

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    1. You are so welcome, Meaghan!! I'm glad to hear we made your day...mission accomplished! Virtual ((hugs)) for you and Violet! :)

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  14. I love this cake SO much. The decoration is awesome...and I want to make it. :)

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  15. This is stunning! I love this decorating technique too but I've never done it in rainbow colours. I just love how you alternated each colour in each row. The effect is gorgeous and the pink cake looks delicious! ~ Paula (VanillaBeanBaker)

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  16. OMG Robin. Every cake you post, I think is my new favorite, then you just post something that impresses me even more. I think this really is my favorite cake so far! LOVE it!

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  17. This cake is awesome. I just love the colors and the design. I'm going to check out your tutorial.

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  18. What a bright and stunning cake! I bet it would bring a smile to anyone's face! It was great being in the Virtual Baby Shower with you!
    ~Liz@HoosierHomemade

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  19. Congratulations!!!! I LOVE IT.........

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  20. that is amazing!!! I'm in awe! I came over from Six Sisters Stuff to invite you to sign up to win one of three photo books up for grabs. come on over and enter the giveaway!!!
    http://www.nap-timecreations.com/2012/12/smilebooks-giveaway-over-500-combined.html

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  21. I still don't think that I could make those petals... I have issues with baking. This cake looks fabulous, though. Maybe one day I'll get the courage to try and make something like it.

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  22. Wow!!! I had sort of dismissed the petal cake after seeing them, but this is the worlds best petal cake and actually making me want to try one!

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  23. stunning!! I totally want a piece -but not sure I could eat it, lol. It's too pretty...

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  24. stunning. just stunning. must make. I made your tie dye rainbow cake for my 16-year-old niece and she just loved it. I so admire your creativity. keep it up! we love you!!

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    1. Awww, thanks Missy! I'm glad your niece loved her cake! :0)

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  25. Yum! This looks amazing! Absolutely amazing! I love how bright all the colors are! You are so talented!

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  26. Love this! So gorgeous! Love your blog, I am now following you. :)

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  27. This is freaking awesome. I wish I could bake

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  28. Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! I love this cake!

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  29. That cake is amazingly cool looking! I really like it.

    www.adventureswithcaptaindestructo.com

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  30. Omg this is so cute!!!!!! Love your site!

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  31. That is beautiful! I love buttercream frosted cakes

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  32. This cake is beautiful, and I'm so excited about the petal technique...I need to go an try in out right away.

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  33. I love your cake! It's so fun to look at!

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  34. That is the cutest cake ever! Thank you for sharing. Now I think I want to try making one, because of you!

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  35. hi, mice to meet you. i write you frm italy. this cake is womderful. i follow you :-)

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  36. I can't stop looking at this cake. It's beautiful! You're so talented!!

    http://whatchamakinnow.com

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  37. wow, this is so incredibly beautiful! I love the vibrant colors. btw, your blog name reminds me of that goldie hawn movie from the 80s, bird on a wire. lol! :)

    Loved seeing this at the special link party supporting Sandy Hook last week. Hope you'll come to The Humble Brag link party today to see some features from last week and link up some more cool projects. We also give away FREE AD SPACE every week! Happy Friday!

    http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/the-humble-brag-link-party-13/

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  38. Wow! You are amazing! I'd love it if you stopped by my weekly link party and linked this post up. :) http://thelifeofjenniferdawn.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-little-bird-told-me-link-party-23.html

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  39. I would love to know which colours you used for your buttercream please :) Also a recipe for the buttercream aswell if you could ;)

    Thanks so much :)

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  40. Ah! Those colors! They make me drool, and seriously I can't stop staring at them. So beautiful! :)

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  41. How did you get such gorgeous vivid colours in your buttercream? What did you use? This is just a stunning stunning cake.

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  42. This is gorgeous! How on earth did you get the neat flat dot in the centre of the top rows?

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  43. I luv this cake and making it tomorrow for my son's 16th birthday. Just wanted to confirmed that I do not need to use the round no 12 nozzle and can just snip off the tip of the piping bag? Thanks

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  44. So, I am excited to attempt this tonight for my little girl's 4th birthday tomorrow, but I have never made a layer cake before. Did one recipe of cake make all of those layers, or did you double it? Thanks!

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  45. I loved this cake when I first saw it in December .. finally remembered to pin it!

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  46. Woooooow! This is such a great idea! Will try to make one like this for my daughter's birthday on Saturday.

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  47. Beautiful!! What size cake pans did you use? 2inch deep? How did you make your dots continue into each other on top??? Thanks! :)

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  48. This must have taken hours. You must have been so patient with it haha! I love it, it's brilliant! Xxx

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  49. Hi, I was just wanting to know if you have the recipe you used for the buttercream on the rainbow petal cake?
    Thanks

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  50. Love your cakes. I made the hummingbird cake but was not able to get the petals to stay on the sides so I just did the top. Do you have a recipe for the icing you used here?
    Thanks

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  51. I am art education researchers in Japan. Now I make a book of "color" for children of Japan. In the book and we want to put a great photo of your cake. If I be allowed, please tell me how to put the credit (name).

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  52. Whats the recipe for the frosting? also what food coloring did you use?

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  53. This may b a silly question, but hat food coloring did you use and what butter cream icing recipe? AMAZING JOB

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