Who Says Cammo Isn't Cute??

My nephew turned 1 in January and my sister asked me to make a cammo cake.   So I scoured the internet trying to get an idea of HOW to do this.....

I found this post by Crafty Mama  Brilliant!! I just needed to put it together in cake form....

Now, I made my own cake batter instead of using a box, but other than that I followed her directions.  I divided the batter in to 4 bowls:

1: White batter.

2: White batter with green food coloring and a dash of chocolate batter.

3: Equal parts chocolate and white batter.

4: Chocolate batter.

Instead of cupcakes, I made 3 (9 inch) rounds and I spooned globs of different colored batter in the pans.  I forgot to take pictures until they were in the oven, but you get the idea: 

I also make a large chocolate cupcake for a smash cake :)  Here they are all baked:

While the cakes were baking, I made a batch of chocolate icing to frost the cake and a batch of buttercream for decorating.  (That will come later.....) Now for the fun part! 

Stack and frost the cakes:

I cut the "dome" off this cake to make it nice and flat.

 

2nd cake - cut the "dome" off this one too.....

3rd cake - I leave the dome on the top layer, I like the way it looks :)

I iced the top smooth, and a rough frost around the side.

The edges don't have to be perfect, since they will be covered.

Next I divided the buttercream icing into 3 bowls:

1. White icing with a little bit of green food coloring and a little bit of cocoa powder

2. White

3. White icing with cocoa powder

All decorated with dots of colored icing

The "cammo" was piped with colored icing as well.....

Are you ready for the big finish???
          When we cut the cake I was so excited!  I think it looked great!!

Happy Birthday!!