This Ombre cake was a request for a little girls Tangled themed birthday party! She wanted the cake itself to be ombre, but also be flavored strawberry which made things a little complicated color-wise, but it all turned out great! This was my first Rosette Cake, and I think I am in love with this style. It is so easy and gorgeous!!! Tips and things I learned from this cake:

1. Always make sure you have the right amount of batter for you pan. Just splitting the batter evenly doesn't necessarily work---measure/weight it out, and if you don't have enough batter for all the layers, make another batch instead of baking really thin layers that won't work.
2. You can use a 1M or a 2D for the rosettes, but I like the 2D best.
3. To create the ombre effect, split your frosting into 3 batches (with the largest amount of frosting for the darkest color).  Once you have the darkest color, you use a little of that frosting to color the next lighter frosting and then a little of that frosting to color the lightest frosting. The above picture doesn't do this ombre cake justice, because the purple color does not photograph as well so I had to do some color adjustments on photoshop. In reality the colors are all really well related to each other.
4. Always hide the "tail" of your rosette with the following rosette.
5. Stagger your rosettes instead of stacking them.
6. Mark your cake to make sure your roses are all the same size.