July saw four friends sharing a birthday party. We wanted a cake that would give each person a cake at least partially tailored to them, while coming together into one presentation.

We briefly considered a tiered cake, with each person getting a tier each, but put that idea to the side after deciding that it would be unfair to have one person get a large cake while the person who got the top tier would get a tiny one.

In the end all four cakes were 9″ round, with the flavour and the base colour as the favourites of the intended recipient. The patterns are in the other three colours to tie the cake together. Each cake was able to move around the centre pole so they could be positioned as desired, but we felt the spiral looked best.

The top purple cake is a super intense, chocolate fudge cake made with 100% Venezuelan Black Cacao with a chocolate fudge icing.

The blue is a spice cake with a pumpkin buttercream, a new recipe for us that we were very excited to be able to use.

The red cake is a pina colada, a pineapple cake with a coconut buttercream.

The red cake is a red velvet with a cream cheese icing.