For R.'s birthday, I decided to redeem myself from his first birthday cake disaster. When he was little, he was allergic to eggs, milk, wheat and nuts. Try making a delicious cake without flour and eggs. Needless to say, although it looked like a cake, it didn't taste very good. I've been wanting to make a rainbow cake for a long time and it was the perfect opportunity to do so.
I started with some white cake mixes and food coloring.
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I followed the directions on the cake mix and then separated the batter into 7 bowls.
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I started adding food coloring to each bowl (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple).
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Each bowl was about a 1 1/4 cup of batter.
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I baked the cake and let it cool.
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At first, I decided to bake the layers individually.
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To save time, I then started to bake two colors at a time. If I had to do it again, I would have definitely baked each color individually so that you can see a definite color change.
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I added cream cheese filling to each layer and made a quick crumb coat around the cake.
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I set the cake in the fridge before adding my final coat.
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R.'s Thomas the train cake.
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He was super happy with the way it turned out.
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Now for the surprise. When I cut it opened everyone loved the rainbow!
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My family who doesn't really like cake, loved the cake.
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I will definitely make this cake again.
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What do you think?
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