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Pretty Palette: Rainbow Petal Cake

By Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

rainbow petal cake - coco cake land

rainbow petal cake - coco cake land

I made this cutie-pie tri-coloured petal cake and cute little matching mini cupcakes for Alice to celebrate the upcoming birth of her second babe. I have some thoughts about the petal cake which I will relay here: Man alive, it takes a while to pipe and pull, switch colours, pipe and pull, switch colours and keep on keepin’ on ’til the whole cake is done. I kept singing Patience by Guns N Roses, with memories of my friend Ann’s grade 7 graduation party, slow-dancing in the basement with a boy crush, my hair all crunchy from my hairsprayed poodle perm and just FEELING those lyrics. And I was feeling those lyrics big time once again while piping this cake:

“All we need is just a little patience

(patience)

Mm, yeah…”

Yes, it takes a while to make this petal cake. But I thought it was totally worth it – and imagine all of the colours you can make it! Colour palette ideas galore! In fact, you can even use the petal technique and make it into a fish cake, like I did, hehe!

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Alice’s baby shower colours were mint green, lavender, gold and white so I rolled with that colour theme. Loved the colour theme. Totally sweet.

rainbow petal cake - coco cake land

I love finishing any cake with a single berry, or candy, or flag – the cake itself was earl grey and the cupcakes vanilla raspberry – but I just had to get all matchy-matchy on the cake so I added the raspberry. Pretty, simple and now the cake and cupcakes were a family with their raspberry badges.

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Have you tried the petal cake technique? All you need is a piping bag fitted with an open circle tip (or three piping bags fitted with three open circle tips, in my case!) and a small offset spatula. Visit this tutorial from The Cake Blog, or there’s also this great video of an ombré cake version from the Boy Who Bakes which really lays it down pat! Thanks again Alice for the fun order – and all the best with baby #2! xo Lyndsay 

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  1. Sara @ Cake Over Steak

    November 3, 2014 at 8:05 am

    Oh my goodness you make the most beautiful cakes!! I can ONLY imagine how long that must have taken you. Seems like the kind of project where you should have Gilmore Girls on in the background. ;-) You’re a talented lady.

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    • Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

      November 4, 2014 at 6:45 pm

      aw sara you always leave the sweetest comments… ^__^ yes indeedy, i like to put on podcasts or even sometimes watch episodes of the good wife … ! thanks for stopping by! xo

  2. Shikha @ Shikha la mode

    November 4, 2014 at 12:23 am

    This is unbelievable. I’m seriously in awe of how pretty this is, and I LOVE the little banner decoration on the cake too! Make my birthday cake next year plz.

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    • Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

      November 4, 2014 at 6:46 pm

      thank you shikha! :)

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