Dotted Ombre Cake

Ombre cakes are all the rage lately. "Ombre?" you ask... it's a fancy way to say "gradated" and I absolutely love it!

I've always been a color junkie and I pride myself in my use of color; so when a great friend of mine was having a birthday, I thought it was the perfect time to make my first ombre cake. However, I didn't want to do it in a way I have seen done already.

This delectable Irish Car Bomb cake is already a gorgeous creamy color due to the Irish Cream buttercream and I wanted to play off the Guinness Chocolate cake. I used those soft caramel colors Guinness makes near the head of a pint for the dots - creating a simply stunning cake.

I was lucky enough to dig in to this one. Mmm....