Baking, The Art You Can Eat!

My hubby's sister's hubby turned 30, so she asked me to make a cake - Yay!! She mentioned his current obsession with Butterfingers, so a chocolate peanut butter cake it is!  I ended up baking six cakes in total - the first batch wasn't thick enough, so I doubled up on the amount of batter the second time around. So many cakes!!!  The theme this time around is weights, so a dumbbell is perfect!  These are my first two cakes, which I ended up crumbling up and making cake balls with them :)  Peanut butter frosting! So easy and delicious :) Just peanut butter, cream cheese, butter, a bit of vanilla extract and some powdered sugar! I made a double batch here and then another one for the cake balls. I decided to not microwave the marshmallows this time around to get a smoother texture with the fondant. Added a bunch of black food coloring. And then the powdered sugar! A little bit at a time so I don't add too much. Once it go...

My daughter is now 5!!! Woooo! For such a big milestone of all of us surviving these past five years, I wanted to make sure she got a pretty big "WOW" from her cake! Her theme this year was My Little Pony, which was a very spur of the moment obsession for her that really came flying out of nowhere.... Thankfully, she had a ton of MLP hand-me-down toys and it's still pretty popular in party & toy stores - had MLP balloons, plates, napkins, banners, and plenty of stuffed ponies (added plenty of blue since that's her favorite color and helps balance out the crazy amount of pink).  Anyways, on to the cake!  So the idea for the cake was make a normal cake but drown it in rainbows. That means the inside has to have rainbows and the outside has to have rainbows!  Because I didn't realize I was going backwards, the bottom layer started as red (rather pink in the picture - strawberry flavored!) and it would go up from there - red, orange, yellow, green, blu...