Sunday, March 18, 2012

At the end of the rainbow...is CAKE!

So I've made this before, and always meant to post a how-to blog, because people never believe how easy it is! A friend invited me to a Saint Patrick's Day cookout, and suddenly I had the perfect excuse!  It's very easy, and everyone will feel lucky they know someone so amazingly crafty!  :)

All you'll need is a boxed cake mix (unless you're much more Betty Crocker-ish than I), food coloring (they have neon too, which I've used before and loved) and frosting.  Pretty much exactly what you'd need for a cake).



Once you've mixed your cake mix (I had a moment when I thought I only had two eggs, lol), you'll then need to separate the mix into however many colors you plan to make.  Since mine was for St. Patrick's Day, I chose classic rainbow colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet).  Fun times creating these colors!


Then, just start pouring!  Since I have the slightest touch of OCD (by slightest I mean quite a bit) I poured mine in the order of the color spectrum, lol.  Just pour the first one, then our the second on top and so on....





Then, bake it....mine did this weird bubble thing at the top, but I'm no baker, so I don't know if this is normal or not.  At first I was going to cut it off to level the cake, but in my case, it came out sort of making it look like a shamrock, which worked for my purposes.  LOL!  Everyone totally thought I did it on purpose!  #Winning


Then I used a little more food coloring in the frosting to make it more festive for the holiday.

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See...like I said...an easy and super fun idea!