Gutie's Goodies

As many of you may know, Tuesday was the royal baby Prince George's first birthday. Naturally, I had to make him a birthday cake! I didn't find this recipe on Pinterest or anything, but I'm proud to say that I crafted this strange beautiful idea all on my own. I decided on the Neapolitan because it has three parts, just like the royal family, and each part of the cake is symbolic of one of the majesties. The vanilla layer of the cake is for Prince George his royal babiness because of his purity and childly innocence. The strawberry is obviously her royal highness Kate because it's pretty and pink and sweet. And finally, Prince William is the chocolate cake layer, which was on the bottom, because he's like the foundation of their beautiful perfect royal family and the reason everyone else can be royal, too. Plus he's rich and yummy. Anyway, that was sort of vomit-inducing, but it pleases me regardless. It's worth noting that I made the full recipes of b...

This is a largely Pinterest inspired project. I am fairly inclined to call this at least  a semi-Pinterest fail. I hesitate to call it a full Pinterest fail because it was super delicious and you can tell that it's three different cakes. But I'm still glad I did it because it was indeed a learning experience. So I choose lemon, strawberry and coconut, which are nice summery flavors. But I actually used them because I have random bottles of lemon, strawberry and coconut extracts in my cabinet. Honestly, it was cabinet clean out day. Lemon Strawberry Coconut Checkerboard Cake Directions I used two recipes which I've already blogged out- the ultimate vanilla cake and my standard vanilla buttercream, which can be found here . Make double batch of the batter, and separated it into three bowls, with around 2¼ cups in each. Then I add 1 tablespoon of each extract. Let the coconut one be, then put yellow food coloring into the lemon batter and red into the strawberry...