I begged my friend to let me bake the cake for her daughter's 3-rd B-day, so Iâd have an excuse to practice. Invitations had ladybugs on, so I copied the theme. I had just read that black and red were the hardest colors to get right, so decided to stick with pink and brown (I did black and red on a cake later, and had no issues whatsoever). Cake is vanilla, torted into six layers for the body, with pastry cream and fresh raspberries between all layers. Kids loved it, of course, jellybeans and all :-)