Has anybody ever made a rainbow cake?

[Anonymous]

If you want to try a checkerboard cake with just 2 colors, here is an easy way. Come to think of it, you could use all different colors and it will be quite psychedelic...

http://www.bakedeco.com/detail.asp?id=7586&trng=fgle&gclid=CLrKpZ3u-8MCFdgUgQodk2sAEg#.VO0aE_nF-So

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Anonymous wrote:You can taste the food coloring, unfortunately. I'm thinking it's not too healthy for kids to ingest so much dye.

+1. Yuck. All I can think is tons of food dye.

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Anonymous wrote:Last time we were at Giant there was a cake mix (with a picture of Duff from Ace of Cakes) specifically for this kind of colored cake.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter's 6th birthday is this Saturday and we're doing a wizard of oz theme with... Rainbow cake! For those pp concerned with the coloring (I'll admit to being in that camp), I found a product called Color Garden that is all natural food based dyes. From what I've read, the trick is soft frosting and a cake leveler. Good luck OP - I'll be in the same boat trying to pull this off!

How did the natural dyes work out?

[Anonymous]

Get a large serrated knife to make this task much easier - I don't know how I lived before I got my serrated knife. I had no idea how easy cutting soft stuff could be!

[Anonymous]

A friend made one with very thin, almost pancake-like layers. If you go this route, you'll have to rotate through your pans (unless you own 7 cake pans). Pour maybe 1/2 inch of batter into the pan, bake for about 10 minutes, repeat with all colors.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last time we were at Giant there was a cake mix (with a picture of Duff from Ace of Cakes) specifically for this kind of colored cake.

+1

+10000!!! I"ve made this cake several times and it's always a huge hit (very pretty and REALLY yummy). They also sell it in Target. IT's time consuming, but not terribly more so than a regular cake.

[Anonymous]

MY DD made this cake --she is 13. Put the yolks in there and she used a mix. The blue and green do look alike. You don't have to have 7 colors.

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I think that much food coloring is just super gross and really unhealthy. Sorry. I'm not usually judgmental about food choices (or really anything), but this just seems to me to be pouring chemicals down kids' throats for no good reason.

[Anonymous]

It makes a very beautiful cake that everyone loves. Its not that much dye -- there is more dye in your cereal or the meat you buy at the supermarket.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can make a layer cake you can do it. You just have to use a shit ton of food coloring. And white cake with no yolks. Don't do checkerboard - too many crumbles and too hard to frost.

Will a cake cook properly with no yolks?

Yes, I make egg-free cakes all the time.
To get even layers you need to measure out the batter. The gel type of food coloring will give you richer, more vibrant colors (and it doesn't take as much food coloring). I would advise against store-bought fondant. Plain fondant does not taste very good. Marshmallow fondant is pretty easy to make and is delicious!

"Store bought" fondant is fine. Just don't buy crappy Wilton stuff. Get good fondant. Albert ulster is very good. Satin ice also is tasty.

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Where do you buy it? I've never seen it in a store.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes a very beautiful cake that everyone loves. Its not that much dye -- there is more dye in your cereal or the meat you buy at the supermarket.

Uhhhh... There is no dye in my cereal or in the meat that I buy. And I've read the recipes for the rainbow cake and it is really a lot of dye. We had a rainbow birthday party a few years ago and I opted for just doing a rainbow dei ration on top of the cake because I thought the amount of dye in the cake was really gross.

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The ace of cakes tie dye cake got terrible reviews on amazon.
To those of you objecting to the amount of dye in the cake, it's no more than if you made the whole cake pink or blue or whatever - only plain chocolate and white cake would be free of dye, right? Maybe I am misunderstanding the objections, but it sounds like people think there would be more dye in a rainbow cake in particular.

[Anonymous]

Harris Teeter sells a 4-color rainbow cake (pink, yellow, green, and blue)