Rainbow cake

So, I'm not the worlds most creative cake baker, but I've decided it's the year of no cheating (ie, getting cakes made) and in going to make my DD her 1st birthday cake.

DH has decided the theme will be rainbow so I agreed to make a layer cake.

Anyone made one? Any hints or tips?

Ive been on YouTube and a few have said to use foil pie tins, I'm worried it will burn the bottom.

Also, would it be cheating to use the ready made Betty Crocker frosting you can by in the shops between layers + as main outside icing too??



Whats best to colour the batter, I have normal food colour dyes here, but I've seen some sites say to use gel dyes (where do you buy them from?)

Are you set on this cake?
If not my DD wanted a rainbow party for her 6th birthday and I made her a cake with the seven colours of the rainbow all mixed in together (so had a tie dye type effect), butter icing and then on the outside I had each colour of the rainbow in skittles going around the cake. Then on top I had a number 6 out of sprinkles
It looked fabulous!! And was so much easier than the layers cake.

Happy to show you photos if you like.

Good luck.

I made a rainbow inside wizard hat shaped cake in December.

It was more time consuming then difficult. I needed a rectangle shape so I used a lamington pan. My only recommendation would be to make lots of your mix up. I found that a couple of my layers turned out thinner then the others cause I hadn't made up enough mix!

Sandwiching them together was easier then expected. I don't see why you couldn't use the premade icing. I used buttercream and didn't put a lot in between each layer. I also used a combination of normal food dyes and gels. It looked awesome when it was cut.

I looked at the rainbow layer cake for dd's secind birthday and decided it was too much effort so made a rainbow swirl white choc mud cake. We had mostly white cake and then swirled the other seven colors through.... Looked awesome

Liviam - would love to see pics!

Im not set in this cake, I'm scared to do it really. I want it to be perfect, and I'm not sure I could pull it off.

There have been a few cakes I've seen where you make up all the colors, then pour them into the centre of the tin on top of each other. I'm not sure if mine would turn out like it should if I tried that.

I've done the cake where you pour it all in and I wasn't impressed with it at the end. Happy to share pic of dd's cake if you're interested

Layer caker is not hard, just the time is very consuming. I ended up doing the Tie dye type instead and it looked great and you don't need any frosting/icing in between and you bake as one cake so quick and easy and you still get the wow factor. I covered in fondant and used M&M's to decorate and my SIL made a rainbow for ontop. I will tag you in a comment so you can see on FB.

I did not do the tie dye the way you described. I used a soup laddle and I tried to make each colour level even on top of each other and not move the cake tin to much at all.

BG - I'd love to see a pic

Kazzo - thanks, I'll keep watch on FB!

Another cake that looks impressive when you cut it is one with balls of denser cake in bright colours cooked in to a lighter cake. Rosie cake-diva on facebook has some easy tutes to follow.

I made one like HotI has suggested for DD1's birthday last year.
Outside: http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/07/yzyhyjeb.jpg
Inside: http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/07/4a4upede.jpg

it's actually a bit easier than it looks i reckon. i am no baker but yeah not too bad!

it takes a bit of time but no biggie.

I cheat and use greens basic vanilla cake packets lol.

i split the batter into bowls for each of the different colours and then put each colour one at a time into a spring form tin. it would cook really quick so you could smash them out pretty efficiently.

then, because my laziness knows no bounds then i just used a sour cream ganache between the layers (white choc melted with sour cream mixed through...YUM!). and a simple butter icing on the outside. I would have used fondant on the outside but ran out of time.

here is a pic of it before it was covered...i was a bit worried lol!

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and here is a pic of it once cut! it was super yummy and the kids just loved it (i didnt tell them what it was before hand lol)

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Tenibear that looks really good!

Cassius2 - what colour dyes did you use...gel or liquid drops? Those colours are great

I used liquid drops....they were really bold colours and you didnt need to use much

Trying to work out how to put a photo on, LOL!

No idea how to add photos!

My cake *so far* looks pretty good, not cut it yet. Ended up using gel colours I found at the cake shop

Can't wait to see it