Last week I made a Rainbow Cake for my friend Tatiana’s daughter’s birthday party, and she asked if she could write a guest blog post about it. I know my friends and family get excited when I bake, but I’ve never read something that articulated the feeling quite like this. I got a little emotional when I read this. Love you Tati!

It may take a skilled blogger and a talented writer to come up with a truly captivating post, but it only takes an experienced dessert eater like myself (+ party guests of ours) to recognize and rave about an excellent cake! This is my first guest post and I shall make it an emotion-filled one.

Ever since the idea of doing a big celebration for our 3-year-old’s birthday, and combining it with celebrating our son’s first birthday, popped into our heads, we knew Robyn would be our *first* choice to bring the “wow” in the form of delicious baked goods. And, from all her previously baked and blog-featured treats, the Rainbow Cake would be the one we’d ask for. I was preparing a little persuasion speech, when Byn just simply said, “of course, I’d love to do it for her” to my Punchi-birthday-cake-please-baking proposal.

It’s special to me that she baked it because even though they’ve only met a few times, from the start Punchi showed a great sense of sweetness and openness towards Robyn (could it have something to do with the mini cupcakes Byn baked for her very first birthday?)

Alright, enough of the introduction. The CAKE? Well, THE cake was simply incredible!! In further details:

1. Taste: wow-wow, niiiice. I don’t ever describe food for people, so if I had to compare it, I would say, imagine a fancy expensive cupcake – kinda like that. There is a place downtown TO that does them very well; well, Byn’s cake was like that but slightly better as the cream didn’t have that heavy buttery taste. It is definitely a sweet cake, which is the way I like them and perfect for a party dessert.

2. Texture: if you ever have 40+ people attending a party and you’ve taken a gamble on having only one cake to go around, you know the pressure to slice it just right. Incredibly, I have never before seen a cake that allows itself to be sliced into perfectly thin pieces while maintaining completely intact its six-layer structure.

3. Look: the bright rainbow colours in contrast with the white frosting, the delicate decoration of smarties just around the edge – I loved it. Of course, the look of surprise and happiness on Punchi’s face when the first slice came out and she saw the rainbow on the inside… priceless! (yes, stealing the cliché from that old ad campaign)

4. Do-ability: nope, I shall not attempt to ever bake this cake. Now, I’m a novice baker with banana-bread specialization, but even if I was more advanced, I honestly would feel like I couldn’t do it justice. Robyn does claim, though, that it was “pretty straightforward to execute”… well, maybe one day under her close supervision?

5. Overall rating: a 100% success, everyone talked about it at the party, the kiddos were blown away, people wrote me emails afterwards specifically commenting on the cake. Will make ask again!  :))

Tatiana @ www.things-weve-got.blogspot.ca

P.S. Thanks for reading and thank you Byn for being an incredible baker, a wonderful friend and a brave blogger.