![]() Piping rainbow frosting on the side of the cake with french piping tips gives it great texture, and a playful look. It is super easy to create, and a great technique for anyone who struggles to get smooth sides on their cakes. You may end up with a lot of dishes, but this cake design has a bright side too! Heaven forbid if I had a sink full of dirty dishes behind me in my cake videos!! I can’t even begin to imagine the comments I’d get. My sink is super shallow, so I’m forced to do the dishes as I make a cake. My best advice for this is to clean as you go. ![]() It’s the price you must pay as a color-loving baker. Rainbow cakes always seem like a great idea, until you’ve actually colored all your cake batter and frosting.Īny cake design that involves different colors is going to make a mountain of dishes. I always use the Americolor brand (not sponsored, just my very favorite food coloring)! Mountains Of Rainbow Dishes The brand you use can affect the color too, as some are more true to color than others. Gel food coloring is much more concentrated, so you can add less and still get a bright color. Liquid food coloring can throw off the consistency of your frosting, especially if you have to add a ton to achieve the color you’re after. To make your buttercream really vibrant, I highly recommend using gel food coloring! When it comes to coloring your frosting, this is an absolute must. This ensures you have enough white buttercream for the cake assembly. I prefer to fill and frost the cake completely before coloring the buttercream to decorate the cake. Once you’ve tackled the rainbow cake layers, all that’s left is coloring the frosting. Patrick’s day rainbow cake for the Food Network, and used the same technique as the cake above! Vibrant Buttercream Frosting This is intentional, since we’re making six colors of batter, and we want to swirl two together in each layer. However, this rainbow marble cake recipe makes three, eight-inch cake layers. That being said, feel free to combine whatever colors you want, or heck, you can even mix them all together! That’s what I did for the painted rainbow cake shown below, and it looked great too!ĭo note that the rainbow cake pictured below cake has four cake layers, because it was made with seven inch cake layers. ![]() In retrospect, it wasn’t the worst kitchen blunder I’ve had! ![]() You have no idea how upset I was when I cut into the cake!! Sometimes you just have to take a step back, and laugh a little. I ended up accidentally frosting the cake in a completely different order!! The joke was on me though, because I forgot the colors of the cake layers once I frosted it. I also thought it would help the inside of the cake match the frosting pattern on the side of the cake. That’s one of the reason why I wanted to combine just two colors at a time. Traditional marble cake recipes use a mixture of two batters, vanilla and chocolate. To make these gorgeous cake layers, I chose to only swirl together two colors at at time. This cake is made with moist vanilla cake layers, and a delicious buttercream frosting. The marble cake layers create a beautiful pattern, and make it so much fun to cut into this cake! Each slice is like a little work of art. I’ve made rainbow cakes before, but I’ve never made a rainbow marble cake! I swirled together two shades of colorful cake batter in each layer to create this cheerful cake design.
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