Experienced cake bakers! Need your help :)

[toomanyshoes]

For DD's B'day this year I'm making her a giant cupcake cake and I wanted to do a "rainbow" in side.

Usually when you make a rainbow cake you bake 7 layers separately and then ice them together but obviously I can't with the shape of this tin.

So I was thinking I could pour one colour in, freeze it, pour the next colour and so on, then bake from frozen?

Do you think it would work? Or should I give up and just do a marble cake?

Thanks!

[Manhattan]

You are either game, or a really good baker! I did this cake for my dd's first birthday, and it almost got the better of me! It took me 13 hours to get one perfect bottom, and one near perfect top.

So I would prob say try the marble first, and see how you go with that, and then maybe do rainbow icing. I iced the top, and then for the bottom, I made a chocolate mould out of the cake tin for it to sit in, and it looked fabulous, even of I do say so myself ;P

Good luck, and I'm sure your DD will love whatever you make for her x

[toomanyshoes]

I'm going to coat the bottom in chocolate too, white with pink polka dots!

I'm starting to think pink and purple marble will be the way to go but I was keen to try a rainbow.

[Manhattan]

That will look just gorgeous! Are you going to coat it in choc, or make a mould? I found an awesome blog site with directions for a mould which is what I used. Was super easy, and saved fiddling with icing the bottom etc.

The directions are here if you are interested. I just used chocolate melts, and it worked a treat!

Pink and purple will look really pretty. If you have the skills though, give the rainbow a go! What have you got to lose??? And you get to munch on the trial cake

[toomanyshoes]

Rainbow cake is baking right now, so I'll see how it goes.

I was just going to flip the bottom, pour the white chocolate, set, then pipe the dots...hmm might have to think about it now looking at that site. thanks

[sloane]

i think limeslice has made a rainbow cake before - i'm sure i saw some on her fb - a giant cupcake & little ones. hopefully she'll see this too!

i was just wondering about the icing for the bottom of the giant cupcakes yesterday - i was thinking about getting one of the tins!