Freedom's (failed) Rainbow Care Bear Cake

I'm just now getting around to transferring the pictures from Freedom's birthday to the computer.
I made Freedom a "Rainbow Care Bear Cousin Cake". It's very, very far from what I had first planned on. I was wanting to make a cake in the shape of the monkey. I realized to do that, it would be almost as big as my kitchen table. I guess I could have made it smaller, but I'm not that skilled.

Might just be my lack of awesome cake skills, but it looked more like a tie dye cake. I can handle that though. I cheated. I used a box mix. It was the Funfetti type, the only cake mix permitted in this house! Brye, the pickiest boy alive, will only eat plain Funfetti cupcakes. I tried a cake once, un-iced, but it was NOT a cup cake. Shame on me for thinking it was the same.










I made the cake according to the directions on the box.
I took the batter, and split it into several bowls. I used three for one layer and four for the second one. To have made the cake more of a rainbow, I should have made more colours and used the same number.





Plop the batter in.
Plop the other colours on top, right in the middle.
Don't worry, it will spread out!






Now here is where I think I messed up.
The cake pan was very big, like 13-15". I had a hard time flipping it out of the pan. It broke a bit and I thought I could cover in the "holes" with icing.






This is the only picture I have of the finished uncut cake.
I took it with my cellphone right after I was finished, that's why you can see my lovely mess.

I had planned on making the monkey outline with chocolate and then filling it in with the coloured sugar stuff.
The chocolate broke. The store only had red sugar stuff. I cut out a copy of the monkey and tried to trace it with a tooth pick. Icing is sticky. I learned the hard way. I barely had a line to follow. It was late and I didn't want to head back out to the store in hopes of finding a small tube of yellow or black icing to trace it in. I thought I would be smart and use the only yellow icing that I could find after work... the cupcake stuff in a can. HA! It was horrible. Mostly due to the fact that I had to freehand most of the monkey with a chunky can. I didn't have black icing, so I thought I would outline it with the only colour that was dark... blue. Feel free to laugh.






So there it is, the awesomeness that could have been.