Tonight was the Blue and Gold Banquet and the boys were asked to bring a cake for the dessert that they had helped make and decorate. Dominic decided he wanted to do a rainbow cake but a happy face (I gave him some ideas and he chose to do those). The theme was positive attitude, happy, or cheerful. It was a really fun cake to make especially at an even like that where you can't tell that the inside is going to be a rainbow of colors (and food dye! eeeek! ha!)
To bake this we used 2 white boxed cakes and divided each box into thirds using 1 1/3 cup mix in each 9 inch round pan.
We cooked two pans at a time, each with a different color for the different layers. (pre mix the food coloring into the batter before adding into the pans).
After they were cooled (we cooled them stacked on top of eachother with wax paper between each layer) I cut off the rounded tops and then began layering the flat layer together on the cake stand with an adjacent layers color of frosting until it looked like this :
Backing up a little. I got to teach Dominic how to separate the egg yolk from the egg whites. The first egg he held straight up in his hand as the yolk was dripping down and the egg whites basically ran down his whole hand getting to the bowl....good thing we washed! But, redirection made for a perfect separation with the second egg. He thought that was pretty neat and did a pretty good job until the 5th egg, he punctured it. But, since the batter wasn't going to end up white it really didn't matter anyways. He had fun learning a new skill!
Since Dominic was wanting to do a yellow smiley face cake, I pre-frosted the whole cake yellow and then he put the decorative flower on the bottom edge. He did an amazing job with this part. I had one finger on the cake stand turning it for him and sometimes steadying the tip, but other than that, he did the rest. His hands were quite steady!
He then started into the smiley face. I really had to just walk out of the room for this part so that it could be his creation (not without pictures though!). I tend to hover too much if I'm watching.
I love these next two. His hand was so steady!
See how great his flowers look?
And here it was all done and at the banquet right next to the pizza cookie (looked so real!) and wolf cupcakes
I forgot to take a picture of my slice so here is a picture of what was left of the cake! It looks so neat when its cut.
Good job Dominic. That was yummy!