Rainbow Cake!

This cake was the most time consuming and complicated cake that I have ever made! But then again, I don't have much experience baking or cooking. Like almost everything else on this blog, this was my first attempt at making this cake.

Here is where I got the decorating idea....

http://thegreatcakecompany.blogspot.com/2011/04/fat-tuesday-rainbow-layer-cake.html

My cake obviously didn't come out as nice looking, but here it is! I will post tips and ingredients under the pictures! :)

INGREDIENTS
3 boxes of WHITE cake mix
GEL food coloring
A LOT of sprinkles
*For the frosting I used a cream cheese buttercream recipe that I found online.  I believe I used powdered sugar, cream cheese, vanilla,  and butter


TIPS
*Be sure to cut all 6 layers of cake so that they are even! You can do this using a knife or the Wilton cake leveler.  This will keep the cake from collapsing like mine did! haha
* As you can see from my pictures, I put buttercream in between each layer and then stacked them on top of each other.  This was a big mistake because my layers were NOT even so some of the layers ended up cracking.  I had to throw out a couple cakes and start over.  The second time I frosted 2 cakes at a time, froze them for 2 hours, and then stacked them.  I still had trouble with making sure all the cakes were even.
* The last step was to stack all of the layers and place the sprinkles on.  Basically my kitchen looked like a rainbow explosion by the time I was done...
*The most important thing to do while making this cake is to make sure all of your layers are even!!


:)


It will probably take me a couple more attempts to get this cake to look nice