Rainbow Layer Cake
Rainbow Layer Cake
This rainbow layer cake is certainly impressive, with each tier of the cake marking a different color on the rainbow, it’s the perfect recipe to make if you want a challenge.This recipe is courtesy of Ready Set Eat, Conagra
Prep Time
1.5
hours
Cook Time
30
minutes
Servings
24
Total time: 2 hours
Ingredients
- pam® baking spray
- 2 packages (15.25 ounces each) duncan hines® classic white cake mix
- 1 1/2 cup water
- 6 eggs
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple gel food coloring
- 3 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/4 cup heavy (whipping) cream
- 4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 bag (32 ounces each) confectioners' sugar
- cooked, cooled cake layers
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Spray three 9-inch round cake pans with baking spray.
- Blend cake mix, water, eggs, oil and vanilla in large bowl with an electric mixer at low speed until moistened.
- Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Divide batter evenly into 6 bowls, about 1 1/2 cups each.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon red gel to one bowl, 1/4 teaspoon yellow to another and 1/4 teaspoon orange to a third bowl of batter.
- Stir each until blended.
- Pour each into separate pans.
- Bake 14 to 16 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes.
- Remove from pans to cooling racks and cool completely.
- Meanwhile, add 1/2 teaspoon blue gel to one of the remaining bowls of batter, 1/2 teaspoon green gel to another and 1/2 teaspoon purple gel to the final bowl.
- Stir until blended.
- Refrigerate until ready to bake.
- Wash, dry and spray cake pans with baking spray.
- Pour each remaining color into separate pans and bake 14 to 16 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes.
- Remove from pans to cooling racks and cool completely.
- Beat butter, heavy cream, vanilla and salt in large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed until blended, about 1 minute.
- Slowly beat in powdered sugar until smooth.
- Increase speed to medium and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes.
- Place purple cake layer on cardboard round.
- Spread with about 1/2 cup frosting.
- Top with blue cake layer and press lightly to adhere.
- Repeat with green, yellow, orange and red cake layers.
- Spread a light coating of frosting all over sides of cake.
- Refrigerate 15 minutes.
- Frost with remaining frosting.
- Transfer cake to a serving plate.
- Slice and serve.