So to celebrate my mom and my sister made us this awesome rainbow cake, a pastel GF variation of this!
It was made using just a few regular GF cake mixes and food coloring using the same method as the recipe, minus the egg yolks of course.
I was so excited to see it that I was dancing around and snapping pictures, hence the bad lighting and shaky photography. I even insisted we cut it together like at our wedding!
The frosting was this heavenly whipped cream stuff and the whole cake was really quite good. I mean it. Carrot cake used to be my favorite and it was what they made me for our wedding shower, but I have to say that I think rainbow cake has overtaken carrot cake.
Now I'm not gonna lie. I did eat this for breakfast everyday that week.
And of course I ate it by taking one bite of each layer at a time, in order. No each layer was not flavored differently but I like to think that it tasted better that way regardless.
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| Whoopsie! Can you tell? They accidently dropped it, shh! |
For our anniversary we had the regular white "bridal" cake and a smaller chocolate GF cake for me and my GF family members and of course we cut with separate utensils. We always joke that at our wedding the big white cake was the grooms cake and the small chocolate one was the brides cake!
But I think rainbow cake tops our wedding cake! (Not the GF one ;)
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| The dent is where my sister added straws to support the layers. |
A few tips for making your own:
- Start at least a day in advance, especially if you do not have multiple pans for baking.
- To tint cake batter, leave out the egg yolks. It does not affect the recipe at all. Yellow yolk = yellow cakes, egg whites only = white cake, white cake is easy to tint.
- Sometimes if you use too much food coloring, your cake can taste funny. Not bad, just chemical-y. Choose gel based food coloring for stronger colors, regular liquid food coloring for pastels.
- Once you have assembled your structure, insert straws to support the layers and keep them from moving around. Especially useful if you are transporting your cake! If you plan on transporting your cake, invest in a cake box. They are relatively cheap, the sell them everywhere, even in the cake aisle at hobby stores or Walmart and at the bakery at your grocery stores, they keep your cake from moving around too much and they keep your cake from smearing frosting anywhere.
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