FeedMy Rainbow Cake!

One day I made a rainbow cake. Duncan Hines Helped. Food coloring was in abundance. As were bowls.

You could make this cake. I promise! Its easy!

Here we go.

break out two 8in. rounded cake pans

Buy two boxes of Duncan Hines White Cake Mix
Follow the directions on the box.  You can combine the boxes, just make sure you double your ingredients since you have 2 boxes of cake mix!

Use Gel food coloring if you can find it. Gel coloring makes the colors more vibrant and shiny looking when the cake is baked.

I copied another blogger for dividing the batter and adding the coloring. Her very clear, precise blog post is found here. Omnomicon's cake is diet though. Don't make diet cake. It's just wrong.
You can just scroll down to her "The Rainbowing" section to find directions on measuring the colors correctly.... or you can keep reading here and I shall tell you.

If you plan to follow the colors of the rainbow in order, you should try to follow
ROY G BIV. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, (Indigo) and Violet.

You will need slightly more batter to be Violet (purple), because it is your outer color and covers more surface area. I measured the batter into 12 bowls (unless you plan to make Blue and Indigo separate colors.... let's just use Blue).  I had a hodgepodge of colors, so I just did the best I could. I used more batter for the first colors i put in the pans, red and neon green. YAY! If you plan for 6 colors the rest of the colored batter should measure out to be 1 cup each.

Mix your colors with their own spoons. plop into the center of your cake pans in layers. Bake your cakes according to the directions.

After they have baked and cooled, trim the tops off of both cakes so your layers are flat and stack nicely on top of each other. Oooo and Ahhhh over your creation.

I "glued" the layers together with canned icing. For the entire cake I only needed two regular size Duncan Hines jars of strawberry icing.

My young Daughter was thrilled with this cake. It was SO pretty, even if I could only find the neon gel colorings!

Baking/cooking is about doing your best with what you have, right!?

I made a cake.

Go FeedMyRainbowCake to people!

You need:
~Two 8 inch round cake pans
~Spray oil to spray the pans
~Two boxes of white cake mix (and ingredients listed on the boxes)
~Your choice food coloring (preferably gel type)
~Frosting of choice (2 jars of bought icing)
~Lots of bowls and spoons!

Duncan Hines is not in any way sponsoring this post. They just happen to have my favorite cake mix and canned frosting. =)


*** There are SO MANY fun ways to make rainbow cakes. please go explore, change and combine recipes. That's what I LOVE to do!

The Momma.


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