Bright Sky Birthday Cake


Bake a rainbow

The May/June issue of American Girl magazine calls this simply "Colorful Cake." Daughter came across it and immediately demanded it for her birthday party. Because I'm a sucker, I agreed.

Make a white cake cake-mix batter according to directions, and divide it into four parts. Add a tablespoon of Jello to each part of the batter; they used cherry, orange, lime, and berry-blast and I followed suite. They specifically state that one should not use grape. They call for using 9-inch cake pans and baking 15 minutes; I have 8-inch dark, heavy, no-stick pans that call for setting the oven 25 degrees F cooler than the recipe and I ended up baking for 20 minutes. 15 minutes was too little, although I might have gotten away with 18.

Put the layers together in rainbow-order with a can of yellow icing. I didn't want to use lemon, so used the "butter-cream" flavor. Then you reserve a 1/4 cup of a can of white icing and mix six drops of blue food coloring into the rest. Frost the outside of the cake with the blue, and use the white to make clouds.

The layers cooled and ready for assembly (the furthest right really is blue):



The layers assembled:



The cake, frosted (name blurred):



The first slice:



My writing-icing rainbow ran, blast it. It was still a pretty cake.

This is a pain in the fanny to do, especially if you don't have four of the same-sized cake pans. It is also super-sweet, using two cans of icing and regular Jello in the batter (it didn't say one could use sugar-free and after the caveat about using the grape flavor, I wasn't going to risk it.) It was ok to make just once for the helluvit, but if she wants another one, she can bake it herself.

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