Rainbow Flag Pride Cake

 It's pride month. And I want to come out... as an LGBTQ ally.

I started out by making what felt like a million different colors of fondant, but it was actually only 18: red, yellow, white, three shades of orange, three shades of green, three shades of blue, three shades of pink, gray, black and purple.

I started out cutting 1-inch strips of all the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Red symbolizes life, orange healing, yellow sunlight, green nature, blue harmony and violet spirit.

And I laid them on a 6-inch cake dummy.

I trimmed them to the edge of the cake.

Then I made a very small gay flag. This one isn't very well known. It has seven stripes of three shades of green and three shades of blue with a stripe of white in the middle. It represents men’s attraction to each other and the diversity of men in general. Then I trimmed it and stuck it onto the side of the cake with edible glue.

Then I moved on to the lesbian flag. This is three shades of pink, a stripe of white and three shades of orange. The colors represent Darkest Pink: Femininity, Middle Pink: Love and sex, Lightest Pink: Serenity and peace, White: Unique relationships to womanhood, Lightest Orange: Community, Middle Orange: Independence, Darkest Orange: Gender non-conformity.

This is the bisexual pride flag. This is a stripe of pink, purple and blue. Blue represents attraction to a different gender, pink represents attraction to the same gender and purple represents the mixture of the two.

This is the pansexual flag, which represents attraction to all genders, including transgender and nonbinary people. The pink on the flag represents attraction to women, blue represents attraction to men, and yellow stands for attraction to those who don’t identify with either gender.

This is the asexual flag, which represents people who are not sexually attracted to anyone. Purple represents the asexual community, white stands for allies of the community, gray represents demi-sexuality (which means people who are only attracted to others when they get to know them emotionally) and black represents asexuality.

Finally, this is the abrosexual flag, which I had never heard of before researching for this cake. Abrosexuality is the fluidity of sexuality. Like one day you feel bisexual, the next day more straight, the next day more lesbian, etc. This is a combination of the pink from the lesbian flag and the green from the gay flag.

At this point, all the sides are covered, but the edge of the cake wasn’t even. So, using the three primary colors, I rolled some snakes and twisted them together to lay them on the edge of the cake. And almost as an afterthought, I included a tiny red bow.

This cake was intense.

I literally used 18 different colors.

But I am super proud of it as well.

It’s just amazingly inclusive.

Happy pride month.

Watch us make this pride cake on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/-pM1EVf024s
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