Rainbow Cake

I feel bad because I posted pics of my rainbow cake on FB last night, but I was too tired to explain it...and to say that the idea is NOT my own! I don't want to take credit for something that wasn't my original idea, so let me tell you where I got the idea from....a blog I found through Pinterest!

By the way, have you gotten on Pinterest yet? OH MY WORD so much simple fun...haha....I love it. I love the idea of making a 'bulletin board' of your dreams/wishes/goals and Pinterest makes it easy. You can browse hundreds of pictures and 'pin' the ones you like onto your own boards. Or just 'pin' a picture up when you come across one you like online. So much fun. Love it. Join now (free). Click here.

ANYWAY I digress. So yeah, this is the pic I found on Pinterest, and the cool thing about Pinterest is that you can usually click on the picture and find who originally posted it, and therefore how to make that wonderful bookcase/clothing item/culinary delight.

Doesn't that look AWESOME??? But don't wait any longer, click over to the ORIGINAL blog to see how to do this. And guess what....this is Weight-Watcher's approved!! Yep! Here you go, click here.

Ok, so I didn't follow her recipe though, for two main reasons:

1. I wasn't worried about doing it Weight-Watcher-approved

2. I'm not that good of a cook. I don't do complicated recipes. Period.

So mine was simple; I got the white cake mix and followed all the directions to make the batter. Since it calls for only egg whites I was super impressed that I knew how to quickly & manually separate the egg whites, thanks to my years of working at IHOP in college and watching the cooks do this. A nod to those slavery years, thank you IHOP.

Then I separated the batter into roughly equal portions. I decided to only do 4 colors because it was late and I was tired, but my imagination could see all sorts of colors and combinations possible. The purple came from mixing blue/red dye.

Then I plopped the batter (dividing it into two of course) into the WELL GREASED cake pans. This was fun. Actually this whole cake was fun but probably because I love colors and these are awesome bright colors, yes?

Bake these beauties like the box says to do. And here you go. I didn't do the stacked cake like the original blog does because I was making one small one for my family to enjoy, and the other is for a friend. But yes, the stacked one would be fun. I also want to do cupcakes this way but thanks to my husband, I didn't have access to my cupcake pans. That's another story I won't delve into here.

And I didn't go fancy with colored icing because, as stated above, it was late and I was tired. Next time, I want to do fun icing though. I'm visualizing a red/white/blue cake with some sort of matching icing...for the Fourth of July? Or whatever...let your imagination run wild...

YUM YUM!!! My husband & the kids were in love with this cake and couldn't wait to eat it.

OK so if you go into Pinterest, enter "rainbow cake" into the search box and be inspired by all the pics that come up. The next time you make a cake for your kids, make it FUN!

Seriously, if I can do this, anyone can do it.