Rainbow Cakes

Today in Piggy's Kitchen: Rainbow Cakes

I found this idea on another blog page, http://www.omnomicon.com/rainbowcake.

I thought that was interesting, and decided to take it one step further as a trial cake run and make the cake itself from scratch. No Box cake today! I figured if it comes out tasting good and looking pretty, I can use that for L's cake instead of plain old one color cake. 

There's the batter, all different colors. That was a bit of work trying to get the purple to come out right, lol. It came out darker than I wanted, but it would work. It was fun to drip all  the different color combinations into the pans I was going to bake in.

The box shaped cakes I think I'll cover in fondant to get some more practice with that. Not decided yet. Here they are after baking in the oven. 

Cool looking, aren't they? I ran out of batter so I couldn't make 12 squares, just 11. Well, 10 now, we had to do some quality control and test one. I wanted to see what the inside looked like. 

Here's a cross-section of the test cake.

Neat little swirls! And it tastes great too. Nice and fluffy and moist. Next I need to get them decorated up better and have a little cake show. LOL

Off to decorate!