Rainbow Cake!

As a surprise for my daughters who were returning back from camp, I decided to create a "surprise" rainbow cake. The idea was that from the outside it just appeared to be a boring normal cake, but cut into it... POW, and explosion of color!



So let's make one!

Alright, prepare your favorite light colored cake recipe. I used Betty Crocker's Yellow Cake mix, because I didn't want to stress if the cake turned out less than awesome.

Separate the batter into 6 portions, or however many colors you'll be using.




I decide to use 6 colors, to mimic a real rainbow. Remember Roy G. Biv?

In theory, the 6 colors should have been neon versions of Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Green, and Purple. But as you can see, the colors were less than stellar. Who cares? Let's keep going. Ok, remember our order of colors. Start by pouring half of the red batter into the center of each pan. The, pour half of each of the rest of the colors into the center of the previously poured batters:



ready for the oven:


Out of the oven:


Frosted with whipped cream frosting and ready to eat:


The idea wasn't originally mine. Search "rainbow cake" and you'll find many, many hits. There's some from the Something Awful forums that are very helpful. Next time I think I'll try a scratch batter, and use gel dyes. Regardless, the cake was a hit!