Lucy's Birthday Cake

As I was making plans for Lucy's birthday cake, I was inspired by the rainbow cake I stumbled across in blogland (I think I found a link to that blog on the Apartment Therapy Nursery blog). Of course, Lucy would have none of the rainbow cake - it had to be PINK. So I tried dying the white cake batter in two shades of pink (leaving one part white).

She then agreed to chocolate frosting, so her final cake looked like this:

As you can see in the second picture, the pale pink batter is hardly visible. I should have marbled it a bit by dragging a chopstick through the batter in the pans before baking. The cake was fairly tasty, but I am not terribly imprressed with the white cake recipe in my Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, but maybe that's because white cake is just like that and I am used to flavoured cakes.

Here is the birthday girl herself after successfully blowing out her four candles.