Rainbow Layered Cake

One of my favorite cakes (or cupcakes) to make for friends!

1. Divide your cake batter into 8 different bowls. Color each bowl of batter a different color. Our colors are: red, pink, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple. Bake each layer in an 8″ or 9″ round pan. You will take turns using the pan over and over with different colors. Unless you have 8 round pans. Make sure to grease and flour your pan or put a round of parchment in the bottom to prevent sticking. Let each cake cool slightly before removing. Turn out onto a cooling rack to finish cooling.

2. Once the cakes have cooled completely, freeze each layer individually wrapped in plastic. This will make it easier to assemble and frost the cake.

3. Once the cakes are frozen you can start layering your cake in a rainbow pattern, putting frosting in between each layer.

4. Frost the outside of the cake as well. More complete instructions will be included in the PDF download–available after the whole party has been posted.

Make sure you also check out the Tie-Dye Cake recipe!

Rainbow Cupcakes Cont.

Wanted to add some more pictures of what the rainbow cupcakes look from the inside. They really are phenomenal.

And they may have gotten me a job "catering" a friend's daughter's birthday! Sweet!

And once more of them all together...

Recipe is on: http://meowruffcrashbangding.blogspot.com/2010/09/rainbow-tie-dye-cake.html

Rainbow Tie-Dye Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 boxes Betty Crocker White Cake mix
• 12 oz Sprite Zero
• ~6 different colors of food coloring
• Cool Whip or whipped cream

Directions:

Mix cake mix with Sprite Zero and divide into 6 bowls. Pour different colors of food coloring into each bowl and mix well. Make them very bold.

Drop the colours, one by one, into the middle of the pan, in neat concentric-ish gobs. Remember the cake is going to be sliced in the side there, so mixing it around on top isn’t going to make your slices any more psychedelic

(trust me, I did the three-dimensional thinking for you already).

Bake it at 350 for 30 minutes (or whatever the box directions say.)

Once its done I put it directly into the freezer to cool off (I feel it makes the cake extra moist?)

We topped it with Cool Whip.

http://www.omnomicon.com/rainbowcake