I’ll admit…my first reaction was “a what??” when I heard this from my little girls mouth.

“Mommy…I want a chicka chicka boom boom cake”

But since I do my best to make birthday dreams come true…I dove right in…

and because I tend to appreciate over-achieving in life…I decided to make it a rainbow cake, with homemade fondant to boot.

So, pull up a chair, sit down and enjoy the creation!

The cast of colors…

I used gel food coloring. I’d never used it before, but it turned out to be way easier than the liquid, and way less messy. And if anyone really knows me, less messy is automatically better for me!

Layering the colors.

Two beautiful pans of cake batter waiting to go in the oven!

And those same two beautiful pans, out of the oven.

I didn’t have any round cake pans myself, so I borrowed these from my friend Beth. They were so pretty…and the cakes literally fell out of them when I went to turn them out onto a cooling rack.

My fondant draped cake. I just like the word draped.  The fondant…homemade marshmallow fondant. Yummy…and fun to play with. A HUGE mess to make, but fun if you’re into that sort of thing.

And…the decoration stage.

A big thanks to my friend Rachel who lent me the letters to complete the chicka chicka boom boom cake.  Because it wouldn’t have been much of a cake without letters. The tree and the palm fronds I just cut with a knife, but used scissors to make the leaves look more realistic.

The book has pink edges with orange polka dots…something I just couldn’t resist adding! Plus, I thought the cake needed a little more.

The dots…waiting patiently to be put on.

The finished cake.

One happy four year old!

The rainbow inside.

I will definitely be making a rainbow cake again…so easy…so pretty…and it elicited quite the response from the party goers! (And it tasted good too!)