Rainbow Cake

Here we are! My birthday cake. :) This beauty of a confection is *NOT* for a 6-year-old boy's birthday party. I promise! It is for 2 girls' 21st birthdays. Yeah, we're kinda nerdy like that. For those of you familiar with the Katamari video game series, it's Katamari-inspired. For the rest of you, it's rainbows! In SPACE!

Yeah. We're silly. Mainly, we just wanted rainbow cake and I requested little rockets. :D

Rainbow cake is a breeze to make! Really. You can use any recipe that makes a normal 2-layer cake (like a box mix, if you want). Just make sure it's white so that the food coloring can work properly! The cake recipe that we used resulted in a really dense, almost shortcake-like vanilla cake. It was good, but not quite what I was expecting. I'll just post the rainbow cake-making method today, and go into the actual cake and icing tomorrow.

Don't be scared of rainbow cake! It's a breeze to make and takes about as much time in your oven as a 2-layer cake would (especially since you can bake 2 cake layers at once). Just put thin layers of icing between each layer and you'll be fine. 

Plus, you know you want to impress your friends with all the preeeeety colors. :D 

 

Rainbow Cake

Ingredients

• 2 8" pans' worth of white cake batter
• various food colors (red, yellow, green, and blue work fine!)
• icing (preferably buttercream)

Before you start:Preheat your oven according to package/recipe instructions.

Recipe

Take your batter and split it into 6 roughly equal cups. Disposable cups work well here.
Using food coloring, tint each batch a different color. We used pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. The brighter the colors, the better the cake will look in the end!
Pour one of the 6 cups into a greased 8" baking pan, even it out, and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the layer is firm and bounces back when touched. Repeat with other batches.
Decide the color order you want to layer your cakes in. Place the bottom layer on a cake plate, cover with a thin layer of icing, then add the next layer and repeat. Be sure to align the layers and ice smoothly.
Cover the whole cake in icing and decorate as desired.

Thanks for reading and happy cooking!