Just Try to Frown While Eating These Rainbowlicious Sweets, We Dare You!

This bright, multihued cake is a festive addition to any party. For a full-color effect, dye the layers to match a rainbow, or let your imagination take flight. Create your own palette by tinting the cake layers to coordinate with the sprinkles, nonpareils, or dragées of your choice.

Recipe: Rainbow Layer Cake

The fronts of these twee tarts are tiny blank canvases. Try decorating them in a way that hints at what’s inside, using the same colors and flavors as the filling. If you’d like, make the tarts more healthful by filling them with low-sugar fruit preserves.

Recipe: Homemade Pop Tarts

Baked in oven-safe teacups, these darling cupcakes are ideal for tea parties, birthday parties, and baby showers. Fill them with strawberry preserves for a hidden treat.

Recipe: Strawberry Teacup Cupcakes

Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem “Fairy Bread” in A Child’s Garden of Verses, this treat is popular at children’s parties in Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of the world.

Recipe: Fairy Bread Sandwiches

How do you say “delicious” in Portuguese? Brigadeiro, that’s how! These easy-to-make balls are fun to roll in chocolate sprinkles. Box them up for the perfect hostess gift.

Recipe: Brazilian Chocolate Truffles

Any day can be your birthday with this decadent cake-flavored cocktail.

Recipe: Birthday Cake Martini

Thanks to colorful translucent candies, these cookies look like gorgeously intricate cut-glass windowpanes. Use candies in festive hues and two sizes of cookie cutters to create these special treats. Think red hearts for Valentine’s Day, pastel flowers for spring, and emerald evergreens for the winter holidays.

Recipe: Windowpane Cookies