3 Instagrammable Birthday Cakes from Food Network's Molly Yeh

Yeh wanted a rainbow effect for Bernie’s first birthday. What she didn’t want was a cake heavy on artificial ingredients. Her brilliant solution? Store-bought carrot and beet juices and mint leaves. (Don’t worry: All you’ll taste is a color explosion.)

“Bernie will cover anything and everything with sprinkles,” Yeh says. “She is my child, after all!” Yeh loves both naturally colored and traditional sprinkles but says the latter are the better choice for this cake. They create the classic confetti effect and add color that won’t bleed too much into the layers.

Yeh says you can freeze the layers in advance to get some work out of the way. When it’s time to assemble, the frozen pieces are easier to handle and frost.

“Bernie’s number-one favorite food in the whole world is blueberries,” says Yeh. The fruit is what gives this cake its cool spots and lavender hue, but it’s the marzipan “stickers” she uses to decorate that will really bring on the oohs and aahs.