Tutorial: Psychedelic (or rainbow) cake
Published by amberlicious February 25th, 2009 in Cake Tutorials, How we celebrate, Stuff about cakes, What I'm making my kids eatOkay- I knew their would be questions so I took pictures along the way so I could do this post. I’m awesome like that. Your welcome. First of all it’s totally easy- anyone can do it. Probably the easiest cake ever to make and decorate.
First of all you make a cake with white batter. I doctored a vanilla Betty Crocker cake mix. (I’ll post how to do that in a minute).
Then divide into bowls for as many colors as you want. I did six.
Then you color each bowl of batter. Important note- you HAVE to use proper food coloring. Not food coloring/egg dye that you’d buy in the grocery store. You can use Wilton coloring paste- but I don’t really like it. I prefer Americolor- but it’s harder to find. I order mine online generally. You can call them and they’ll tell you where you can buy it locally if you want. If you use the egg dye colors it’ll water down your mix and change the texture- plus your colors won’t be as brilliant.
I used a 3 inch deep pan because it makes a more moist cake- you can use two 2 inch pans and be fine though.
What I did was plop different colors in- trying to layer them a bit. You can also pipe colors in for a little more uniform look. But we weren’t going for uniform.
The batter still tasted delicious.
After baking and slicing in half to fill it looked like this
Cool huh? (If you’re 10)
I filled it with ice cream- more on that in a minute too.
Then made buttercream (and more on that too) and colored it four or five different colors. I crumb coated it (important) and then slapped on the frosting in random patches. On the sides I swirled it together a bit. Personally I think it’s a little gross- but the 10 year olds thought it was the coolest thing they’d ever seen.
Easy, Easy. Promise. Any questions?
Day 5 (woo!) by 1:55pm (double woo!)
I LOVE THIS CAKE! My birthday is in November. Can you make me one?
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I think this is so easy I can do it!!!
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Anything that gets 10-year-olds thinking that Mom is the coolest is worth it.
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I tried the camo cake like this with regular food coloring because I didn’t have time to go and look for the better stuff. I love this idea. Looking forward to hearing about how to do the ice cream.
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This looks so cool! And delicious. Awesome cake making skills.
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Maybe I am lame..but I think its super cool. Okay..so maybe it wouldn’t be my first pick for MY birthday..but its cool..and really does seem easy enough! Thanks for sharing!
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Holy Cow! I love that cake. I wish I had your skills. I have just made 3 cakes in the last 2 weeks and wished I had read this first. I have always wanted to be good at this sort of thing and you have just inspired me. Thanks! BTW what is crumb coating?
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My daughter said “That’s a hippie AWESOME cake!”
She wants to make one like that for her birthday.
Very clever how you saved the pictures of the cake making for today’s post. Way to go!
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it looks like that Play-Doh ice cream they used to have. Do they stil have that? Always kind of grossed me out. but cool! and I bet the kids loved it. i know mine would.
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When you say you are going to do something, you do not do it by halves! Whether it is a cake for your daughter or blogging. Woo indeed!
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WOW –I am the first comment. I am almost never, NEVER the first comment. (I am one of the blogger luncheon babes, and I am trying so hard to get around to everyone’s blog) That cake idea is awesome –my grandkids would love it and they would have SOOOO much fun making it. It is a must do for sure!!
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Dude…that is completely awesome! I am yet again convinced that you are waaaaaaay better at this whole cake thing.
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Oh and could you do a crumb coating thing? I SUCK at doing that for cakes. I know it’s just a layer of frosting or whatever, but I still hate that I can never do it well.
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How funny I just read about a cake like this on another site….
http://www.hostessblog.com/2009/02/fabulous-rainbow-cake-tutorial/
……but I do enjoy your practical application.
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