Rainbows and Ponies

My three year old wanted a rainbow pony cake for her birthday. It's a chocolate cake filled with chocolate frosting, salted caramel swiss meringue buttercream and salted caramel.  It's covered in fondant and gumpaste decorations.

Rainbow Cake with Swirl Rose Decorations

Sarah had a cake walk at school this week and I decided it was time to try my hand at a rainbow cake. I've seen a few variations of this cake on different sites here is what I came up with.  I did have grander plans for the outside of the cake, but since I'm less than two weeks away from delivery, I decided to forgo fondant decorations.  Well, that and I still need practice on my butter cream piping techniques.  Overall, it was a fun cake to make and I think I'm going to try it again for Brenna's birthday in August.

 Before the icing...

 Can you taste the rainbow?

 Little dots and swirl roses.