Rainbow Mousse Cake + A Mega Giveaway!
Happy blog birthday to ME!
This month marks 3 years of SugarHero-ing it up with you guys, making ridiculously tall cakes, using unhealthy amounts of butter, singlehandedly supporting the chocolate industry, and putting luster dust and gold leaf on absolutely anything and everything, darlings. It has been a blast and it just keeps getting better.
I wanted to celebrate my blog birthday with two things: a crazy rainbow dessert, as per SugarHero tradition, and a big ole giveaway to thank YOU GUYS for being amazing friends and supporters and readers and comment-leavers and social media friend-ers. I love you and you deserve all the good things. So feast your eyes on some rainbow mousse cake, and then scroll on down to win yourselves some sweet prizes. Love you, mean it!
For the last two years, I’ve celebrated my blog’s birthday with an over-the-top rainbow-themed dessert (see these Rainbow Cake Push-Up Pops, and these Birthday Present Mini Cakes.) To me, nothing feels more celebratory than a big ole dessert packed with layers of bright colors. Pass the food coloring!
This year’s version is a seven-layer beauty alternating layers of moist butter cake and rich mousse. Each colorful layer is a different fruit flavor, so this cake is bursting with bright, sweet-tart flavor. I thought about calling it a “Taste the Rainbow Mousse Cake,” but it doesn’t actually contain Skittles (plus I’m scared of getting on the wrong side of the powerful Big Candy industry) so I kept things simple.
Here’s the actual breakdown of the cake: four layers of cake (lime, blueberry, raspberry, and lemon) sandwiching three layers of mousse (blackberry, cranberry, and passion fruit). The layers are flavored with a mix of extracts, zests, fruit purees, and powdered freeze-dried fruit. (Oh freeze-dried fruit, I wish I could quit you!) Although it could be made with just extracts, I love that each layer contains actual fruit products in the form of juice or puree or powder, so each has a different bold, vibrant realistic taste. You’ll notice that I used a lot of tart fruits, which went a long way toward keeping this cake from being too sweet, cloying, or overwhelming.
The cake is topped with a quick buttercream, lots of colorful sprinkles, and every rainbow candle and lollipop I could find. After all, you can’t spell “blog birthday” without “star-shaped rainbow lollipops,” right? (Oh hush.)
This cake is as fun to eat as it is to look at! It’s sweet, for sure, but also refreshing in the way that the best fruit desserts are. Jason basically deconstructed his slice, and mixed-and-matched the flavors, trying new combinations of fruits, just like you might do with a handful of Skittles. And of course, since it’s such a tall cake, it serves a ton of people, making this perfect for a big celebration.
It was a big culinary project, but I can’t think of a better way to celebrate three years of sharing big, beautiful desserts with you in this space! I have some huge plans for the next year, and I hope you’ll be along for the ride. Thank you for reading!
Still in a rainbow state of mind? Great! Here are the Birthday Present Mini Cakes I made last year for my 2nd blog birthday, made from lemon-raspberry cake and pistachio buttercream:
And for my first birthday, I made Rainbow Cake Push-Up Pops:
And now for what you’ve been waiting for: the giveaway! To say thank you for three wonderful years, I’ve assembled some amazing dessert cookbooks (some of which are signed!) and some of my favorite rainbow-themed kitchen tools, as well as fancy-pants sprinkles, cupcake liners, luster dusts, and more. The full list of prizes is below, with as many online links as I could find so you can check out the goods. The retail value of everything is approximately $300!
Here’s what this MEGA PRIZE PACK entails!
- World Class Cakes by Roger Pizey
- Homemade Doughnuts by Kamal Grant
- Couture Chocolate by William Curley
- Extreme Brownies by Connie Weis
- Making Artisan Gelato by Torrance Kopfer
- SprinkleBakes, SIGNED by author Heather Baird of Sprinklebakes!
- Sally’s Baking Addiction, SIGNED by author Sally McKenney of Sally’s Baking Addiction!
- The Sweet Book of Candy Making, SIGNED by me
- The Sweet Little Book of Candy Making (gift sized book), SIGNED by me
- “Live A Colorful Life” journal & recipe book by Molly & Rex
- Candy thermometer for making hard candies
- Chocolate thermometer for tempering chocolate
- Set of 4 rainbow paring knives from Cucina Vita
- Set of 8 rainbow nesting bowls & cups
- Set of 6 EcoSmart Purelast rainbow measuring cups
- Assorted colorful cupcake liners (multiple sets)
- Six sets of sprinkles: jimmies, confetti, sugar pearls, and gold and silver sparkling sugar
- Gold luster dust and silver luster dust
Additionally, I will be picking a SECOND PLACE PRIZE WINNER, who will receive seven of these cookbooks!
Big huge special thanks to co-sponsor Quarry Books for providing many of the books for giveaway! They have an amazing array of cookbooks you can browse here. A big thank-you also to Heather and Sally for providing signed bookplates for the books! Please visit these sites—they are all incredible!
To enter this giveaway, use the widget below. It will be open through Friday, December 5, and I will ship worldwide. Good luck!
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