Mix white cake batter with bright food coloring to create a rainbow effect.
A rainbow cake consists of seven colorful layers, stacked to create the appearance of a rainbow. Typically, white frosting holds the layers of a rainbow cake together and complements the multi-hued layers. The cake's layers are typically thinner than the layers of an ordinary cake. A rainbow cake adds a festive touch to a celebration and serves as a prefect treat during children's birthday parties, summer barbecues or rainy days.
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two round cake pans with butter or oil.
2. Prepare two boxes of white cake mix according to the package directions.
3. Stir the mix thoroughly to remove any lumps. Scoop about one-sixth of the mix into a separate bowl. Scoop one-fifth of the remaining mix into a separate bowl. Divide the rest of the mix into four identical portions.
4. Examine the bowls of mix to be sure they each contain about one-sixth of the total mix. If one bowl contains too much mix, scoop some mix into a bowl that contains too little mix.
5. Squirt several drops of red food coloring in one of the bowls. Sit the batter until the food coloring blends completely.
6. Scoop the red batter into the cake pan.
7. Squirt several drops of yellow food coloring and one or two drops of red food coloring into a bowl to create orange-colored batter. Mix the batter with a clean spoon and scoop the batter into a greased pan.
8. Place the cake pans in the oven for about 15 minutes. Remove the two cakes from their pans and place them on a wire rack to cool.
9. Create the yellow and green bowls of batter. Squirt several drops of yellow into a bowl of white cake batter. Squirt several drops of yellow and one or two drops of blue into another bowl. Grease the two cake pans, scoop the batter into the pans and place the pans in the oven.
10. Bake the cakes for about 15 minutes. Remove the two cakes from their pans and place them on a wire rack to cool.
11. Mix and bake the blue and purple cakes. To create purple, mix several several drops of red food coloring with two or three drops of blue food coloring. For the blue cake layer, simply add several drops of blue food coloring into a bowl of white cake batter until the desired intensity of color is reached. After baking, remove the blue and purple cakes and allow them to cool.
12. Place the purple cake on a cake plate. Spread a thin layer of white icing on the cake using a knife.
13. Set the blue layer on top of the purple layer. Spread a thin layer of white icing onto the cake.
14. Add the remaining layers to the cake, in the following order: green, yellow, orange and red. Spread icing over the top of the cake and the sides of the cake.
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