Fun with Funfetti

I had a customer request a funfetti cake for their daughter's birthday. This daughter is a "fun new mom in her 30s". What a happy idea for an adult birthday cake. There are so many colorful ideas out there. I really enjoyed the playfulness of the unicorn cake I did recently, piping with all the colors and shapes, and then the watercolor cakes and drip cakes are trendy and...well colorful. Too much? These are some Pinterest ideas I found.

 I pulled inspiration from the sites: www.ashleemarie.com, www.stylesweet.com and www.sugar and sparrow.com. Plus I needed advice on how to make a funfetti cake from scratch. Basically it is sprinkles, jimmies if you're East Coast, in a white or yellow cake. We decided on a colorful watercolor cake complete with drips, and covered in flowers, topped with a lemontini. ☺ I added 3/4 cup of jimmies to the batter of my white cake recipe. The outside was frosted with buttercream colored with Americolor Neon gel colors. They really intensified overnight, so beware. Sugar and sparrow reminded me to flour my jimmies. The colors mirrored the colors of the jimmies inside. I didn't want it to look like an Easter cake. This was a small 6 inch cake for a family adult birthday dinner. 

The customer was very pleased with it calling it "spectacular"!