Tuesday, January 27, 2009

RAINBOW CAKE!

This cracks me up.It's all too cute.
This cake is suitable for many occasions:
A child's birthday (MISS AVA WILL HAVE ONE! IN LESS THAN A MONTH!)
Your mom's birthday
Coming out to your conservative parents
If you're a lesbian, they'll be thrilled that you won't be forgoing your feminine kitchen duties.
If you're the kind of gay dude who makes cakes for your parents, they were probably on to you anyway.
Coming out to your conservative parents on your mother's birthday
Your friend's jam band CD release party. . . so I'm sure you'll find a use for this recipe soon.And of course, you can use any white cake recipe you'd like. This is just how I make it because I have delusions of wearing size 2 someday.Oh yes, and do me a favour: DOUBLE THE RECIPE AS PHOTOGRAPHED HERE!! The recipe at the bottom is accurate, but this made for a really REALLY small cake, and there was not nearly enough frosting, especially considering its lightness.Okay, on with the ingredients.






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Pour a can of soda (16 oz) 2-16 oz cans of soda into the cake mix two boxes of cake mix. No eggs, no oil, no water, no sweat.




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I'm going to round to 30 oz 60 oz because I have six colours and isn't that just too convenient? It worked out to 3/4 c 1.5 c per colour, measurementwise. So I divvied that up and used my gel colours.






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(the gel colours, while not as good as pigment dye, are much bolder than the very liquidy food colouring you probably grew up with)





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The first colour you drop into the pan, use about 2/3 of the mix for that colour. Otherwise, the top (last) colour will really dominate. I used a heaping 1/4 c 1 cup of each colour.


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Drop the colours, one by one, into the middle of the pan, in neat concentric-ish gobs. Remember the cake is going to be sliced in the side there, so mixing it around on top isn't going to make your slices any more psychedelic (trust me, I did the three-dimensional thinking for you already).When you're three colours in, start doing the reverse with the other pan. Since I'm going in rainbow order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, I got from red to yellow in the first pan, then purple, blue, green in the second. This is so that your two pans are equal if your measurements aren't exact (and they're not likely to be).



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Now finish up.

Follow the box's baking instructions and do your dishes.



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Now for the frosting: 1 box 2 boxes of fat free sugar free pudding mix, and 8 oz 16 oz (two of the 8 oz tubs pictured) of fat-free whipped topping. Or sugar-free. Or light. Or regular. They're all pretty much the same. But that's it.


Finished results! The cakes done!


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MMM Finished cake:


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REMEMBER TO DOUBLE THIS RECIPE FOR RESULTS TO TURN OUT RIGHT!!


I am so excited to have found this it'll make a perfect 1st birthday cake for miss Ava!

1 comment:

Amanda said...

I LOVE it! I got a little confused on the directions tho...I'll just call you!