Buttercream Birthday Cake Pint

Buttercream frosting, golden cake, and a rainbow of sprinkles.

Let’s rewind to the era of real buttercream worthy of a once-a-year celebration. Spongy, pale yellow cake. Bouffant-high buttercream frosting. Blue and pink rosettes all over. It’s time these perfect, pastel-hued, tiered confections of the ’40s and ’50s stop living in our imaginations and cartoons. This is what a birthday cake should taste like. Don’t call it a comeback. Call it a return to glory.