My soon-to-be sister-in-law Elisa’s birthday is on Valentine’s Day, and we had a birthday dinner at our house for her on Friday! My mom prepared a delicious sashimi dinner while I was tasked with making the cake! Elisa is one of the girliest girls I know and loves pink, so I wanted to make a very princess-y cake that would befit the birthday girl!

I have wanted to try a ruffle frosting technique that I’d seen on Pinterest a while back, and I thought that this was the perfect opportunity! I stacked ombre layers of the cake on the inside, and frosted light pink ruffles all around the cake. I was pretty happy with the result!

Ruffle cake for Elisa's birthday
Ruffle cake for Elisa’s birthday

 

Top view of ruffle cake
Top view of ruffle cake

 

Ruffling on the sides
Ruffling detail on the sides

 

Happy birthday Elisa! ❤
Happy birthday Elisa! ❤ The birthday girl loved it – Mission accomplished!

 

Remnants of yesterday's cake. I made the inside an ombré layer cake! :)
The ombre pink layers turned out pretty well, too!