I made my sons 2nd birthday extra special this year. Not only did I whip up a rainbow colored cake for him and tie dyed some family shirts to match the occasion. I also found some rad Eric Carle birthday party supplies! For those who do not know, Eric Carle is my now 2 year olds favorite author. I know, I know it sounds silly that at his age he has a fav. author but his face lights up every time we pull out one of Carle books.
Anyhoo, for those who are curious and would like to give this rainbow cake a whirl here is what I did :
First I whipped up my favorite white or yellow (yellow will need a little more food coloring) cake recipe. Then as seen pictured above I separated the batter into 6 (or however many colors you wish to use) different bowls. Added some food coloring to each till I got desired color and lastly poured one color (bowl) at a time into the center of the cake pan, one on top of the other.
The one on the left is what it should look like when your done (concentric circles) if you want pretty symmetrical layering. The one of the right was me experimenting, this cake came out not so symmetrical ~ still had awesome colors but when you cut into it you only saw chucks of red or blue at a time with very few other color layers coming through.
This is the cake after baking flipped upside down.
Here is le finished product ~ colored layered goodness!
Happy birthday little love of mine! ( I know his name looks like he was the one that iced it on! but those new icing bottles are kind of a pain to write with; I'm thinking they are more for decorating!)
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