Amazing Rainbow Cake!

A few months ago I was taking an adventure throughout the blogosphere in search of baking tips. I've never been a great baker and I've been meaning to improve my skills. I'm more of a Sauce Queen...

Anyway, that is when I stumbled across this cake by the Whisk Kid. She is incredible. I was very inspired by her rainbow cake and I've been waiting for an occasion where her rainbow cake would be needed.

It was my sister-from-another-mister's birthday this week and ta-da! I decided to bust out the rainbow cake. I shortened the recipe by using cake mix from a box... I realize this doesn't improve my baking skills but I was in a hurry. Here is my revised recipe (for the full recipe check out Whisk Kid's blog here http://whisk-kid.blogspot.com/2009/08/say-it-with-cake.htm):

Ingredients:

1. 2 boxes of white cake (you will need 8 egg whites, vegetable oil and water to mix up the cake batter)

2. 4 containers of white frosting

3. Food coloring

4. 3 cake pans

5. Butter ( to grease the cake pans with)

Ok- so now mix up one box of cake mix. Preheat the over to 350 F. When you are done divide one box of the mix into 3 bowls. Add your red (20 drops), orange (12 yellow and 2 red drops) and yellow (20 yellow drops) food coloring to the batter. Grease the cake pans and put batter into eat pan. Bake all 3 layers for about 15 minutes.

While the 3 layers are baking make the second box of cake batter. Divide the batter into 3 bowls and put food coloring in to make them green (15 greed drops), blue (15 blue drops) and purple (15 blue and 4 red drops). When the first few layers are done pull them out of the oven, transfer to plates and let layers cool. While the 3 layers are baking make the second box of cake batter, divide that into 3 bowls and put food coloring in to make them green (15 greed drops), blue (15 blue drops) and purple (15 blue and 4 red drops). When the first few layers are done pull them out of the oven, transfer to plates and let layers cool.

When all six layers have been baked and cooled make sure all the layers are even by sawing off any lumpy parts.

Frost in between each layer before frosting the outside:

Now you have a gorgeous rainbow cake! I love that the outside is white! No one knows about the rainbow magic until the cut into the cake! How fun! Yum! This cake is also perfect for gay pride events!