how to make a rainbow cake!
Aaannnndddd, she’s back!
So I did mention something about health and/or diet food in my last post, and while this recipe is the latter, it is most certainly not to be confused with the former. I posted about my rainbow cake here, and it got a lot of traffic on over to my livejournal, and everyone wanted the “recipe.” The cool thing is that if you’re making something so distractingly colourful, people will think it’s delicious no matter what.
This presents me with the option to use an old Weight Watchers trick—the one-point cupcake. Except I’m making a cake and I created my own frosting. Kinda. I’ve seen it done before, but I swear I made it up first!
This cake is suitable for many occasions:
- A child’s birthday
- Your mom’s birthday
- Coming out to your conservative parents
- If you’re a lesbian, they’ll be thrilled that you won’t be forgoing your feminine kitchen duties.
- If you’re the kind of gay dude who makes cakes for your parents, they were probably on to you anyway.
- Coming out to your conservative parents on your mother’s birthday
- Your friend’s jam band CD release party
. . . so I’m sure you’ll find a use for this recipe soon.
And of course, you can use any white cake recipe you’d like. This is just how I make it because I have delusions of wearing size 2 someday.
Oh yes, and do me a favour: DOUBLE THE RECIPE AS PHOTOGRAPHED HERE!! The recipe at the bottom is accurate, but this made for a really REALLY small cake, and there was not nearly enough frosting, especially considering its lightness.
Okay, on with the ingredients.
That’s all. Notice the lack of fat in here? Mmmmmm . . . chemicals. Though I don’t need to defend my method thanks to the double-dub (WW) aspect, even when I make a “real” cake I usually use box mix because let’s face it: Betty’s been doing it way longer than I have, and has pretty much perfected the art.
Pour a can of soda (12 oz) 2-12 oz cans of soda into the cake mix two boxes of cake mix. No eggs, no oil, no water, no sweat.
The action shots weren’t too thrilling. Now we measure it.
I’m going to round to 30 oz 60 oz because I have six colours and isn’t that just too convenient? It worked out to 3/4 c 1.5 c per colour, measurementwise. So I divvied that up and used my gel colours.
(the gel colours, while not as good as pigment dye, are much bolder than the very liquidy food colouring you probably grew up with)
The first colour you drop into the pan, use about 2/3 of the mix for that colour. Otherwise, the top (last) colour will really dominate. I used a heaping 1/4 c 1 cup of each colour.
Drop the colours, one by one, into the middle of the pan, in neat concentric-ish gobs. Remember the cake is going to be sliced in the side there, so mixing it around on top isn’t going to make your slices any more psychedelic (trust me, I did the three-dimensional thinking for you already).
When you’re three colours in, start doing the reverse with the other pan. Since I’m going in rainbow order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, I got from red to yellow in the first pan, then purple, blue, green in the second. This is so that your two pans are equal if your measurements aren’t exact (and they’re not likely to be).
Now finish up.
Follow the box’s baking instructions and do your dishes.
Such lovely dishes!
Now for the frosting: 1 box 2 boxes of fat free sugar free pudding mix, and 8 oz 16 oz (two of the 8 oz tubs pictured) of fat-free whipped topping. Or sugar-free. Or light. Or regular. They’re all pretty much the same. But that’s it.
Holy shit, the cake’s done! Toothpick clean and everything! Get that shit out of the oven!!!
The purple top kind of made a little turkey silhouette.
The frosting will be a little tough to spread, so treat it like a buttercream (I guess, I’ve never frosted a cake with buttercream). Putting gobs all over, then smoothing in worked well for me.
And look at that thing! It’s so pretty-lookin.
Here’s what this particular cake looked like. See how it’s tiny and too rounded and it kind of isn’t all that great? That’s because I didn’t double the recipe. It’s a mistake I’ll only make once.
Here’s what that really should look like: same process, twice the batter.
Mmmmm.
Sunny Day Rainbow Cake
2 boxes white cake mix
24 oz of clear diet soda (2 cans, ginger ale and sprite work well)
gel food colouring
16 oz whipped topping
2 oz instant fat-free sugar-free pudding mix (2 smallish boxes)
The Dieting
Mix the cake mix with the soda according to regular instructions on box. It will be lumpy afterward. Again, you can use any white cake recipe you want, this is just how I do it.
The Rainbowing
Measure the total volume (by my estimate, 64 oz), then divide by 6 and measure into separate bowls. There are 8 oz in a cup, so 64/6 = 10 to 11 oz, or 1 cup + 2 tbsp.
Stir colour into each bowl with its own spoon. For the first colour into the pan, measure out 2/3 to 3/4 of your mix (in this case about 1 c) as close to the middle as you can. Drop in your first three colours, then work on the other pan with the last three colours. So if you’re doing rainbow order, the first pan should have red, then orange, then yellow, and now the purple, blue and green go into the second pan. As a recap, this is so both layers are roughly the same size.
Bake the cake for however long the box tells you to bake it. Check it when the box says to, but usually it’ll need an extra 5 or 10 minutes or maybe more because of the density of the soda method. Just keep baking, checking back every 5 minutes or so until a toothpick to the center comes out clean. Let cool completely before moving to a wire rack.
The Frostinging
Meanwhile, make your frosting. Just mix the pudding mix in with the whipped topping for a few minutes. Dye if you’re into that.
Frost your fat-free cake with your fat-free whipped frosting. Eat.
Edit 1 (one week later)
No children were harmed in the making nor consumption of this cake.
People seemed to miss the point that I am a 25-year-old woman on a diet with no kids. Since kids don’t really need fat-free anything, there’s no need to use the soda recipe if you don’t like the idea, and if you don’t like dye, don’t make this for dinner for them every night for a month. Okay, folks, thanks for the allowance to disclaim.
Edit 2 (two weeks later)
A note to Weight Watchers (the people on the diet, not the company):
WW has long advertised 1/12 of a cake mix with diet soda to be a “one point cupcake.” I have no idea why they insist this is the case when according to the “as packaged” nutrition information, this much cupcake has 170 calories, 3g fat and no fiber . . . by my calculation, that’s 4 points. That said, 1/12 of this recipe, (2 box mixes + 16 oz whipped topping + 2 oz or so pudding mix) works out to 10 points a slice. Not bad considering that a comparable cake would be 14 points.
Edit 3 (two months later)
FAQ
Here are questions I get over and over again about this cake. I just don’t want to answer any more emails about it. These questions apply to any cake, so please don’t blame your epic fail on me.
Omg my cake burnt!
Next time don’t bake it for as long.
My cake stuck to the pan!
Grease your pan better next time.
My cake burnt/stuck to the pan/was underdone/crumbled. Is this because of the food colouring I used?
No, the food colouring has nothing to do with the failure of your cake. You baked it too long/didn’t grease enough/didn’t bake long enough/moved it before it was cool.
I’m making this for my kids, can I use non-diet soda for this cake?
I don’t know why you would, you certainly wouldn’t be saving much in the way of calories, and I don’t really think your kids need more sugar. Just make a regular cake and then put food colouring in it, it will look the same, promise.
If I don’t make it with soda, will the colours run?
No. In fact, like I keep saying, please just use whatever the hell cake recipe you like. Please. The rainbow part has nothing to do with Weight Watchers.
The frosting, it’s so thick!
Yes, buy a tub of Duncan Hines frosting as a backup plan.
The cake, it fell apart!
Let it cool before you move it, and more importantly, don’t jostle the thing about.
I don’t like the cake this made, blech!
You probably aren’t on a diet, so I don’t know why you bothered to make diet cake.
I don’t get it, you make two cakes and then you put them on top of each other?!
Yes, it’s called a layer cake, and pretty much any cake you buy at a grocery store is constructed in the same manner.
But I don’t *like* food colouring.
Well, you’re wasting your time reading this, aren’t you?
I totally saw this on Something Awful’s Goons with Spoons Rainbow Cake thread, way to steal the idea, asshole.
Me too, fellow goon, me too. And in fact, I posted my original rainbow cake there. If you have no idea what I’m talking about and would like to see about a hojillion rainbow cakes, and a rainbow cheesecake, please check out the thread that put this on my radar.
mmmm cake! this isn’t rainbow at all, but i am partial to chocolate cake with diet cherry coke in it… but i had no idea how to make “diet” frosting. yum!
Hmmm… I’m sure I’ve seen those pictures before, or ones very similar. Not accusing you of anything, I mean! I’m not!
(Except maybe being an SA Goon?)
Yum! I bet this would be the HIT at some of the music festivals this summer! I vend clothing, but I’m always cookin’ and people love to come and eat it! Thanks 4 sharin!
Wow what a great idea. I have seen the zebra cake before but not a rainbow. I may have to try this!
FUN! I totally have to make this. Like Danielle, I’ve seen the zebra version, but never thought of the possibilities with COLOR. Awesome!
Cool cake! Beautiful photography!! Love the combo of both. I posted a link to your blog and this cake on my edible crafts column, part of craftgossip.com (you can see your post at ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com). Thanks for sharing and the step-by-steps!!
Love the photos
Not only has Betty perfected it, apparently she’s perfected it in Spanish too! (notice, on the box)
Thanks for posting this. I had admired your previous post in the past.
Great idea! I have seen this in cupcakes but I never thought “bigger”! I’d love to make for the kids but why the soda instead of regular ingredients?
So, do I double the recipe you’ve given or is that is doubled?
I found this from tastespotting.com this morning and thought I’d tell my friend whose favorite color is “rainbow”, but then decided I’d just make it for her some time. Later today I got an email that she was just offered a job so now I have an excuse! She’ll love it because the rainbow under the frosting is such a surprise!
a little too much food coloring for me. I’ve heard differing opinions on the health risks involved with eating too much of it.
…Plus I’d just be afraid of sh!tting rainbows.
Thanks for posting this! I always thought gel food coloring would be something you find in specialty stores. I was at wal-mart today and picked up all the ingredients and baked one tonight. Mine didn’t turn out nearly as well formed as yours but it was pretty and it was fun and the whole family loved it. Thanks!
Actually my name is Leah I guess my husband has a gmail account on this computer. so the above comment is from me not him.
This looks awesome. I made cupcakes like this for my birthday. They’re the best.
This is awesome! And what I love most about it is that you don’t use eggs!
Now even my boyfriend can enjoy it.
thank you so much for this post!
i am absolutely making this for my baby’s first birthday!!!!
I’m fully cooking this up for my son’s first birthday. He won’t care too much, but my nieces will totally lose it. Thanks!!
NOTE TO ALL DIETING: This cake is beatiful, I would just like to inform some of you of the risks of adding diet soda to your cake. ANYTHING you want to replace in this cake is far healthier than diet soda. Diet soda contains an artificial sweetener called aspartame that is not only poisonous, but actually makes you retain fat instead of losing it.
heather – it’s a nice substitute, and went over well with the didata crew this summer.
Anonymous Goon – DEF an SA goon. In fact, I’m surprised that thread was the only how-to I’d seen on this. ICSA inspired me to do food blogging. =)
Justine – OMG I’M SO JEALOUS. I almost hopped on a plane to go to Rothbury, most amazing line up ever. Instead I went to Gathering of the Vibes and Mountain Jam this year . . . next year: Camp Bisco!
Danielle, Kelly – My mom used to make checkerboard cakes too! So much fun. =)
Chic Cookies – Thank you so much! I love the attention
Erin – HA! It’s true. Ought I translate my page?
Anonymous on “why soda?” – I’m on a quest to lose my last 15 lbs to being totally hot.
Anonymous on “doubled?” – Follow the recipe. The pictures are just from a batch that was 1/2 too small.
Anne O – Don’t spoil the surprise! It’s a lot of fun.
Leah/Darrin – This is my second or third attempt. It’s fun every time, but definitely gets easier with a homegrown method.
Hayley – I haven’t yet tried cupcakes! But it’s on my list.
Anonymous egg-free – Hooray! Glad I could help ya out there.
Anonymous first birthday – It’s so perfect for kids’ parties, eh?
b3ar – Try it for his third birthday.
Anonymous food colouring hatah – I dig it, and if you come over, I’ll make you a cake with no colours. I only ate one slice, but it’s hard to discern any difference since I shit rainbows and burp perfume every day anyway.
Anonymous diet soda hatah – That’s cool if you aren’t into the diet soda part of this, just use your own cake recipe. There are also Splenda diet sodas, though of course the long-term effects of that aren’t really known. This is not billed as health food, just low cal.
The coloured dough screams chemicals. How could one even think of eating something like this?
This is so fun and pretty! I bake a LOT of birthday cakes for little kids, and this technique is definitely going to become part of my repertoire. Came here from foodgawker and I love the blog – I’ll probably spend the rest of tonight reading your older posts!
Sorry, as a chef, it looks diabolical. However, I’m sure the kids would find it amazing! Well, done!
AV
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OMG I love it!!! It’s so pretty!!
What fun! My kids would love this (actually, so would I).
You have a fantastic site.
that’s great!
found this through stubleupon, the greatsest addon ever.
I’m gonna keep it greatstest, because that’s a cool word.
Even the dirty dishes are beautiful.
I am usually a from-scratch baker and use butter not margarine and all that but this looks so cool I might have to break out the cake mix and food dye.
psychedelic!
That’s just a little bit AWESOME! What a fun idea!
Thanks for pointing out my typo! My daughter and I were looking at your rainbow cake this morning! She loves it!
i kind of love the first mushy messy version. they are both very neat though.
For those concerned about the food coloring, there are some healthier alternatives that you can find at places like whole foods or online health food stores. Actually, they are just glycerine and vegetables or fruit. Be warned: they are very expensive…like just under $10 a bottle. Ouch. But, for those with kids allergic to food coloring they would make a fabulous birthday cake…it’s only once a year, why not have a $50 cake? LOL!
Thanks for sharing!
Lost Your Marbles Cake?
On a food safety note, I assume the Betty Crocker colors are pretty safe but I have a kid who gets REALLY sick from some kind of red coloring that goes in cheap candy.
Well！cool cake~!but i am not going to eat it…just watch it.
Great Gay Pride cake!
Everyone loves rainbows, and everyone loves cake.
Its perfect!
OMG that cake is soooooo sweeeeet and cuteeeee
♥
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Wow, this is great! I was looking for more ways to use all the evil chemicals found in artificial colors.
SIMPLY AMAZING! That’s all I can say!
Gorgeous cake! The colors are fantastic!
Stop by my blog…there’s an award waiting for you!
man I would hate to ice this cake and cover up how cool it looks! Although it’s a totally fun surprise when you cut into it
Too funny that we made the same cake for thanksgiving!! 
I think it’s a fun cake!
wow, great!
im makin’ this one for valentines day, no doubt. thanks for the great recipe!
my daughter and i are in awe of this cake! we can’t wait to make it. very cool
I think that this cake may have a lot in common with red velvet due to those colors… But it’s working- It definitely looks delicious!
Wow! Very cool and way too easy. I Will be doing this for my next cake! Thanks.
Whoah, this cake is gorgeous. *bookmark!
I’m telling you — I’ve read this post at least a dozen times in the past few days, and I keep getting distracted before I can post a comment!
LOVE the colors of this cake. I’d even overlook the nastiness of food coloring for the sake of this loveliness
can a person use regular soda…or is the diet pertinent to the baking process?
now only if you added in some grass, it’d be magical rainbow cake! perfectooo
This is GREAT. I can’t wait to pass it on to my sis in law she’s trying to build a cake business and I think she’d like to try this…..
Thanks for the time you put into the cake and this post.
Yum! All that artificial coloring should make the kiddies feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
This is awesome! I love it. Bring on the food coloring and boxed cake mix — you’ve completely convinced me of their potential for gorgeous results.
who cares if it’s not “healthy” or “organic?” it’s cake! eat organic carrots if that’s all that matters to you.
i love it. it would be fun to make it in color palettes for different events or seasons. oo, like an easter egg cake?
I am definitely going to make this for my little girls..they love rainbows. Also, I love that you used a WW tip! I have heard of that tip, but still have been leary of trying it. I guess there is always a first! Thanks for sharing this looks like fun.
question: i’m going to make this for a friends birthday on saturday… should i use regular icing? is it mean to make everyone else eat the fat free stuff just because i’m on a diet?? HOW GOOD IS IT REALLY??
You people and your nasty words. I don’t think you are going to change her mind about anything or anyone elses, why don’t you just shut up already and stop wasting your time?
I LOVE this cake, and plan on making it tonight!! Aspertame, food coloring, chemicals and all! NOMNOMNOM cake
A healthier way to make a no-fat cake is to use a can of pumpkin puree (NOT pie mix) and a box of mix. I don’t know how well it would work for this, as the pumpkin is bound to skew all the colors, but you could experiment. That way no artificial sweetners, few calories, lots of fiber and beta carotene. I’ve made brownies with the pumpkin too, they come out GREAT!
That is a really pretty cake! My family wouldn’t eat it (we don’t do artificial anything) but that is great inspiration for an all-natural version! Pretty dishes too *g*
If I can get the natural food dyes, think I just might know what my daughter is getting for her next birthday cake
This cake looks fab!
I’m planning on making this and the no knead bread this week to see how it goes.
To all the negative commenters I think it’s a shame you felt to be so nasty. Who on earth would plan on eating whole rainbow cake or feeding it to their children on a daily/weekly basis?
This cake is a fun surprise or treat for anyone once in a while so where is the harm? If you do see the harm then be more positive and offer up the alternatives like the other positive bloggers have done (thanks).
Ill post in my ex-pat blog when I’ve made it and hopefully found some gel-food coluring or natural in the health food shop.
Mmmm..yummy!
Wow! I am so impressed. And I loved seeing your wonderful photography to take us through it step by step. Actually, without the photos I wouldn’t try it myself. Now – I still don’t know, but it’s not because of any ingredients. Nope, your ingredients are just fine for a special occasion, one slice, cake. I’m just not a good cook, that’s all!
(but you never know, some day I might try this)
Holy shit that looks awesome! I’m going to send this site to my girlfriend, who’s much better at baking than I am, and see what she can do with it!
I could not possibly love this any more. Your blog title, your writing style, and the fact that it’s a fucking weight watchers friendly rainbow cake! Will you marry me?
your pictures are so scrumptious..a visual delight..:)
Sorry, but I think that honesty is quite important here, and I feel obliged to tell you that what you have made does not look fit for human consumption. Next time, try a Rum Baba, far tastier, and no artificial food colours involved.
Christian BS.
Why frost it when the surface is so pretty?
I loved this so much I made one myself! Thanks for the idea. Your recipes look scrumptious!
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Mine doesn’t look nearly as pretty as yours, but it still tastes good (except the part that got burned because I live in a dorm with a horrid oven!)
I made a toroid one.
Ignored your recipe though, because it sounded weird and made a normal Victoria sponge.
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This cake is loaded with so many chemicals and preservatives, it’s a health hazard.
I would be ashamed of feeding such poison to my children, and I am surprised you regularly feed this crap to your kids.
dear god….
that isn’t food.
That cake is gorgeous! I don’t eat gelatin…but if not for that, I’d let my inner cancer cells grow just for a little slice. I love those photos, too. The one with the empty bowls and spoons is just art.
I’ll think of this if I have a friend who needs to come out to their conservative parents on their mom’s birthday…or if I do.
Someone said it’s crap: I would say it’s worse than that. Giving kids this kind of rubbish… c’mon. For goodness’ sake make a “normal” plum cake, it’s easier and far tastier and healthier. Sodas, sugarfree or not, will slowly kill your kids or make them horrendously fat as 50% of Americans already are (guess why?). And yes, aspartame produces cancer in rats. Definitive research has been done already. It IS dangerous.
There are easier ways of killing your kids.
Is the cake mix sugar free? I am trying to make my mom a birthday cake that is low fat and sugar free!
I am baking this right now exactly same ingredients as you! Do you happen to know the point value of this cake per serving?
BY FAR
this is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. and probably the most beautiful thing that will ever pass through my digestive tract.
THANK YOU
Thanks for the comment. I made this, but it came out different because I realized my mom had one of my cake pans!! So I had to use one big pan. But my husband was still surprised and amazed at what came out!! I used regular soda though, lemon-lime and I just used Reddi-whip on top, I’m uber lazy hahaha, plus that way my two year old could help frost the cake. We loved it, all of it!! THE CHEMICALS MADE US HAPPY!! There are too many risks in the world to be worrying about what’s gonna kill you eventually. We just try to enjoy what we can and live to the fullest. IF that means eating a fricking RAINBOW colored cake then that’s what we’re gonna do!!! And guess what?? MY two year old child ate it too!! *GASP!!!* AND I’m pregnant!! I “poisoned” my fetus with food coloring!!! WHAT A SINNER I AM!!!
HA!
My word – this is THE coolest cake ever! Can’t wait to make this for my kids.
for everyone who seems to think that being a chef/eating organic foods makes you superior to all others:
it does not. in fact, it makes you look like a pompous ass when you post comments on here GASPING about the HORRORS of diet soda, artificial food coloring, etc. etc.
she does not claim to be a WHOLE FOODS cooking site, nor does she claim that everything she posts on here will be organic/good for you/chemfree. hell, if anyone can guarantee you won’t get cancer then they are just plain lying to you.
there are chemicals in EVERYTHING and next time you bite into your organic *whatever* take into consideration that some parasite could possibly be living inside of it. or maybe consider the oversized box with individual plastic wrapped servings…how good is THAT? last i checked, overuse of nonbiodegradable materials (such as the plastic wrap used in TONS of organic packaging) also causes cancer (as well as walking across the street with your hand in your pocket).
have you considered the fact that this cake isn’t the ONLY thing on here? it isnt. in fact, she makes whole wheat pancakes that are TO DIE FOR as well.
in the future, to avoid looking like you have your head so far up your ass that there is no possible way you’ve seen sunshine in the past 10 years, try to post CONSTRUCTIVE comments on how to rectify the “problems” you see with recipes.
diet soda is not required, just recommended.
as for me, i enjoy good food no matter what goes into it.
-sam
instigator….. THANK YOU! I showed my friend this blog because I could not believe the nasty comments being left on the site. I also made a comment a few days ago.
I am all for organic/natural/environmentally friendly products but I can’t honestly say 100% It is a lot easier to do here in Egypt I have to say though.
People, if you see a flaw in this recipe or don’t agree with the ingredients. Leave a constructive comment instead o resorting to anonymous school playground bullying tactics like I have been seeing.
Or as previously mentioned….Move on and find another blog to read!!
this was a HUGE hit at work. Instead of using pudding, though for the frosting, use obnoxious blue jello for more color and a fruity kick.
Thanks! This was excellent!
Did you mix the colours you didn’t have yourself? I spotted that the Betty Crocker colour packet had 4 colours in..
wonder how hard it’ll be to get this stuff in the UK
I agree with Instigator. It’s a friggin’ cake for christ sake, not a nuclear weapon. And no one is telling you to make it.
I’m glad she shared the recipe because I’m making it tonight with my little cousins! Weeee!! Hooray for people who make rainbow cakes from boxed cake mix full of “chemicals”!!!! Woohoo!!
Get over it and smile.
If you have time (lots of it) it is super fun to dole out the colors into cupcake liners and make rainbow (tie dye, really) cupcakes! I made seven colors and needed about 1/3 of a tablespoon of each color to fill the cup enough.
I made them recently for a birthday party and they were a HUGE hit! Everyone wanted to know how they were made.
Wow, your cake is gorgeous. I have a blog devoted to making stuff for kids and will be linking to this. Thanks for sharing!
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I totally made this cake as soon as I could… I made them as cupcakes though and oh my they were so good! I dont know if I baked them long enough but they were so moist almost gooey… but not in a bad way! I was totally afraid of the bad food coloring taste but they were so sweet! I used Strawberry Creme pudding mix instead of the other one (I cant quite remember what it was) And I put rainbow sprinkles on them. I am not a baker I mean only a few weeks ago I learned the difference between baking powder and baking soda… and I even did this. My boyfriend was first afraid of them but then LOVED THEM. They are a trip and a great snack YAY RAINBOWS!
wow…ok…this cake is BEAUTIFUL!!! im making ASAP
and to everyone who says that this is horrible and unhealthy and whatnot…um, yea, its CAKE! duh :p and it wont kill anyone bc i highly doubt her kids eat this every day. once in a great while will not hurt anyone. get off your high horse and live a little!
Wow, my 2 yr old is just getting over stomach cooties. This will be the perfect, “Yeah, we’re healthy again” surprise.
’till next time…
Beautiful cake! LOVE the idea!
I’m completely ROLLING my eyes at the nasty commenters.
Lovely photography of the process too!
It’ll never cease to amaze me how many haters there are on the internet. Who really sets aside the time in life to post vitriolic comments about food coloring? Really, guys?
That cake rocks! I linked over from the Goody Blog, and then linked to you on my blog, too!
I love the cake, sent your link to my niece who is an art teacher and she just made it. I put it on my blog witha link back to you.
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That’s just awesome! Thanks so much for the recipe.
omg i am DYING to make this demented cake! Yours is gorgeous. Thanks for all the great tips! Gel coloring … double the recipe…. got it.
I LOVE this cake! I'm not a big baker, but it was so pretty, I had to give it a try this weekend. Totally delicious & totally fun to eat. Thank you so much! (P.S. I used butterscotch pudding for the icing & sprinkled pecans on top, and it was really tasty.)
I just found your blog…um…want to make out? Seriously, this cake is the shit and your blog is all kinds of hilarious. If I could design a food blog in my dreams (i.e. if I had mad cooking and photog skillz), this would be it. I see from perusing your archives that you tend to take blogging breaks. Please refrain. I can’t go back to a place where your blog doesn’t exist.
Wow…thank you! I found you via a link to this cake! Fantastic!
Ashley
wawawiwa! well thats something I’ll be using in the fiture my mom’s bday’s actually coming up so THANK YOU!!!!! xox the J =P
This cake looks awesome. I will totally try it, but might just make the (gasp!) full fat cupcake version for all my non-dieting friends.
This looks sooooo much better than rainbow dot cake! I’m totally gonna try this!
LUV IT !!!!!
Wow …das ist ein wunderschöner Kuchen. Hätte da gerne ein Stück ab. Leider nicht machbar…aber schauen ist auch schön.
Liebe Grüße von Ute
OM NOM NOM indeed! This looks like so much FUN! I think I might make cupcakes like this for a Super Bowl party or something. Thanks for posting, and I’m glad I’ve found your blog!
Ooooh, I love how you cover it up with a one color frosting – so sneaky! Love all this color!
This would be cool using your school’s colors. Ours are purple and teal. My students would go nuts! GO HORNETS!
Ok, so I have a practical/technical comment… It doesn’t look like you really spread the batter around, or try to get it to reach the sides of the pan. Do you just dollop it in and let it spread on its own? I can’t wait for an occasion to make this, I’ve never seen anything like it!
And as other people have already said: if you want healthy, eat a dang carrot! Cake is supposed to be fun, and self-righteous food police whiners are not fun. I probably only eat cake 5-6 times a year, and when I do I want it to look like this one!
You people who think this cake is bad for your kids…GIVE ME A BREAK! Seriously, are you kidding…it’s cake! Get over it!!!
I make this cake all the time, so its good to see someone else does too. I just follow the box directions, nothing more. Take it further and do themed color cakes like, for example, super bowl team colors! In order to get the colors vibrant after baking, you need to be a little heavy handed in adding the dye. So if you or your kids are sensitive to food coloring, don’t make this cake
Wow, just the pictures of the cakes made me smile! It’s beautiful, and who doesn’t love a rainbow? (Well, besides those self-righteous “Anonymous” people who feel confident enough with the anonymity of the internet to say nasty things to strangers) Thanks for posting this, it really made me happy today
very presentability !
i have add, my face is about to explode, you are so cool. also, you forgot to mention youve got to stack the cakes, i would have been looking at birds and made two flat cakes. also, dont you have all six colors in ach pan by the end? i think my dog just whistled at me.
I have seen something similar on another site, only they iced it with grey icing, and did a rainbow on the top in varying shades of grey. Once cut into , of course, all the cool colours were on display!
It was called an “Over the Rainbow” cake!
How do you get all the colours to stay colourful on the top, and not go slightly brown from cooking?
Wow, I’d like to eat the cake!
I’m going to make my sister make this for me. I can’t bake.
Caaaake!
omg perfect timing! today is my daughters 6th birthday and the party is on saturday. nom nom nom indeed!
Thank you! I enjoyed your writing even more than the wonderful recipe. I’d never heard the WW tip, but I really want to try it now. Do you think seltzer would work instead of pop? Usually cake mix is sweet enough for me already. If only there was butter-flavor pop… (okay, ew.)
nice tutorial!
I did one on my blogspot January 3rd, great minds, eh? =)
I think I may like yours better!
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Love the idea, concept, execution, and the photography is literally the icing on the cake – it is amazing.
I am NOT a food snob or someone who goes around analyzing and commenting on people’s food.
But I have to say something this time. Food coloring is now clearly linked to childhood hyperactivity and ADD. See: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/81599.php
Parents: try to cut out any and every articifial coloring from your children’s diet. Their teachers’ and your own sanity might just improve.
In regards to the previous post that cited “http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/81599.php”, it should be noted that they were not testing food colouring exclusively. If you read carefully, what the researchers were testing was AFCA’s, or Artificial Food Colouring and Additives – the additives being benzoate preservatives.
Also up for debate is the variance between children’s results. I am setting aside the notion that ADHD may not need to be corrected – some children may be born to dance, rather than born to read. I’m more worried about my kiddo eating crap off the carpet than his ingestion of blue cake.
I’ve made this cake twice now, and frakkin’ dig it. OMNOMNOM.
Thank you SO much for sharing this recipe! I stumbled across it, and I have to have a birthday cake for someone in my office tomorrow, so I’m making two tonight (One for practice… and myself)!
And thank you so much to others that shared pictures
I wasn’t sure if I would be able to pull this off, but since others have been… maybe I can too!
Sure, it’s not the healthiest recipe I’ve ever seen in my life, but is anyone planning on making this one of their every day staples? I doubt it! It’s fun and probably tastes delicious. I think a treat like this once or twice a year is plenty acceptable!
Justine
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I wonder… how do you think this would taste with coconut shavings all over?
Fuck all the haters, that is one sweet-ass cake and you even got the side effect of cool pictures in the process
Thank you for posting and keep up the awesome!
This was on Somethingawful.com a looong time ago.
Hmmm, Hypnocake! All hail the Hypnocake! LOL
RT
http://www.Privacy-Center.net
too cool!
Regardless of whether you believe in the safety of aspartame in general, It’s important to know that it isn’t really heat stable, and may give off harmful chemicals when used in baking.
The manufacturer admits that it breaks down, though they claim it’s still safe.
It might still be safer to go with sucralose (splenda) instead though, if you really want to use an artificial sweetener in baking.
Wow that’s the first time I’ve been inspired by and felt sick from a recipe. For extra diet-chemical goodness why not sprinkle meth-amphetamine or similar ‘dieting’ substance over the grey icing?
Well done
I think this would make Sandra Lee super jelous! Awesome
let’s put an end to the horrors of aspartame v. splenda:
the chemical structure of aspartame is all covalently bonded and these structures need A LOT of heat in order to break down. i would seriously doubt that any big chemical reaction is taking place within the baking process that would weaken the molecule enough to cause it to give off harmful vapors of any sort.
now for splenda, there is a different problem. the chemical structure contains 3 covalently bonded Chlorines, a chemical that your body cannot use unless it is in an ion form (it needs to be an ion so it can dissolve and liquids and be excreted). assuming there is no chemical reaction that can break off these Cl, the Cl stays in your body and last I checked, Cl isn’t super amazing for your body (just think of the havoc a chlorinated pool has on your hair and skin…nevermind your internal organs).
personally, i’m not a fan of fake sugar either, but let’s not start any riots here over the health factor. if you want to read more about either go here: http://nutrition.about.com/od/calories/p/aspartame.htm
i read that article and its legit.
my credibility? pharmacy student who understands the chemical structure of both materials.
bake on!
What a pretty cake! So pretty, I went and looked for the Betty Crocker gels, and, like others have mentioned here, found only a 4-color pack. Plus, I am so *NOT* on a diet, I think I will make a regular white cake mix. Now, I did go online and find a retail site that sells individual gel colors in normal-person sizes. (Not just bakers gallons!) I just did a search on “gel food color”, got a bucnh. I ended up sepnding just under $15 for six 3/4 of an ounce gel food colors, including first class shipping…I think the site was bakerstools.com. I wanna try 3 minute frosting (or “boiled frosting” that my Grandma used to make), but will probably just use a premade white frosting on my first try. Hope it will be good enough to photogrpah! This will be practice for a May Day cake!
Qestion for the Blogmistress: the first cake looks MUCH more colorful than the second…is that just a trick of the photo? Did you use the same amount of coloring in each cake? It looks like if you want that incredicble vibrance form the first cake, you need to double to coloring as well as the cake mix!
And I agree:
1) The photography was amazing, especially those empty rainbow batter bowls!
2) The plain white frosting hiding the rainbowy cakeness…brilliant!
3) If you’re gonna bitch about the unhealthiness of the dye, diet soda, etc., offer up some constructive suggestions on improving it, instead of just complaining and being such a highstrung tightass whiney biatch. Or just move along and get a life.
4)This was a great blogpost, and the instructions gave me the impetus and confidence to try this, even though I won’t make it the same way. (Full fat, thank you! After all, it’s a cake, not a regualr thing you eat all the time! It’s not SUPPOSED to be non-fat or healthy!)
I’m sorry, but this is getting ridiculous!
Everybody complains about foods containing “chemicals”
What, do you suggest a cake should be made of? electricity? light?
the concept that anything not derived from a play is not “natural” and will riddle your body with cancers before killing you of liver failure is blatantly untrue fear mongering.
Additionally, Splenda and other sugar alternatives have shown np real detrimental health effects in recent studies.
hey.. is it possible to get the same result if i make the cake the usual way, plus eggs and butter instead of soda?
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i wanna make this for my friend on her birthday
That picture of the dishes is awesome.
Oh, the cake looks cool too.
The photos are beautiful. The cake is nice, too. What kind of camera and setup were used?
Baking (and eating) are all about fun! Whether you’re making an elaborate cake with expensive fat and sugar or breaking out the mix and food dye. You and your cake are awesome!
I made a cake like this and posted on my blog about a month ago:
http://girlsloveaguywhocancook.blogspot.com/
Omigosh i made this last night after reading your article. It was yummy yummy goodness! Also a lot of fun to make. I might want to make the comment that you need to let the cake cool before you move it…it completely fell apart, but it was still delicious.
for everyone who has asked:
this cake can be made with seltzer or another soda type product (I did it with Cream Soda once)
it can also be made according to the box directions (it will probably spread out more in the pan because the soda directions make a thicker batter)
if you can’t find the colors you need, just mix the gel colors according to a color wheel to get every non-primary color you are looking for
Anybody noticed all the nasty snarky comments are coming from “anonymous”? They wont even post their name beside there comments tsk tsk.
I think it’s super cute and since my sister loves tie dye, I will probably be making it for her bday chemicals and all
Since when was a dessert product supposed to be good for you? To all you haters on this blog, try limiting consumption of these supposedly deadly products and odds are you will be just fine. Almost everything you eat out there is fine for you in moderation. No one is telling you to eat or feed your kids an entire cake in one sitting.
Now, onto the blog itself. I love this recipe! I want to make it so badly
Thanks for sharing it!
So…. I would love to make this for my 18th birthday party, which is going to be kind of classy but insanely immature at the same time. But I can’t stand cake. (I know, I know.) Do you suppose this would work with cheesecake? Is that even possible?
oh my god! Oh my jesus god almighty! This is the cake from Hook! It’s the never never land cake! I NEED this in me!
^ that comment made me giggle and say “That’s what she said”
DIRTY!!!
I tried it and it is way too much batter and making a huge mess aand wont cook. Ugh, dang it
Ok it took a huge amount of time but it baked, I think. The biggest problem is the unlevel house with unlevel oven so cake batter dripping out side. Pictures will be on my blog at some point. Tastes like cake, yeah!!
This looks amazing! My mom’s birthday is on Monday so I’m planning on baking this for her. My friend showed it to me . . . good job on creating this beautiful thing!
good god that is one ugly cake! it looks like the vomit jimi hendrix choked to death on. or was that janis joplin? I mean kudos for originality but… Ugh Lee.
Gorgeous photography though. ALSO, not too sure how all that food coloring, diet soda, fake whipped topping, and sugar-free pudding powder would actually taste – isn’t a little plastic-ish?
I mean cake should taste like eggs and butter and milk and sugar and stuff, right? people be goin crazy!
Your pictures are gorgeous — most food photography makes me want to lie down with an ice pack on my head.
After seeing this on Reddit I HAD to make my own! And I usually don’t bake (as evidenced by my first cake breaking into delicious pieces). Mad props. Here’s my pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29745333@N02/tags/cake/
can you make this into rainbow cupcakes?? since the single box of cake mix attempt didn’t turn out well, i’m afraid of cutting it down even more…
My sister, her boyfriend and I made this cake on Sunday together. We had the best time- thank you sooo much!!
I used ginger ale instead. (I’m preggie, so no diet sodas for me.)
I’ve never baked a cake with soda and so much food coloring so I suspect that’s where I failed.
The cakes took a very long time to bake. Unusually long as a matter of fact. But watching it rise in the oven was so exciting!
The whipped topping was so good, as a matter of fact, my nephew couldn’t keep his hands out of it!
One tip, to anyone trying this, LET THE CAKE COOL FIRST!! WE were so excited that we only waited about one hour before we started making our little tower- and the cake was so moist it just collapsed!
I have to say, it was still worth the time and effort.
Thank you again!! I love your blog!
thank you
I just used the same basic principal to make devils food cupcakes – carbonated water instead of eggs/oil/water (to avoid the aspartame) with the devil’s food mix (Delicious!) and for the icing I used sugar/fat free white chocolate jello instead of vanilla, the whipped topping, and a few spoonfuls of Raspberry Jam.
It worked perfectly! I’m so glad I found this entry! Thanks!
And to all the naysayers out there – if you don’t like it, don’t eat it. My body is my temple and I’ll put whatever I want into it! You can pick what you put in yours, tyvm.
This cake grosses me out. I’ve always been a health-conscious person, and have learned that your best bet is to use real natural ingredients and watch your indulgence. One time I tried making a quesadilla using non-fat cheese, it was disgusting! So sticky, I knew it’d be sitting in my intestines for weeks! I had to throw it out and use the real stuff instead. I do get that I can choose to use my own cake batter and color it just the same, so cheers to that idea!
This is a terrible idea: Diet soda and food coloring? Uhg. Wow.
Wow! You totally just made my day. I'm doing a baking event with kids tomorrow night, and wanted something fun that they've never seen before.
I had no inspiration, and voila! Here it is! As to commenters who don't like fake sugars, neither do I. I'll just use real soda. Super excited too, not to have to deal with eggs & water and crap – pour the soda in, and let the good times roll!
Thanks!
THis cake is so much fun! May a piece a couple of times in a lifetime, not 3 meals daily for a lifetime…so getta grip everyone! Enjoy!
BTW, photos are great! The empty dishes and spoons make one lovely artwork…and using for a watercolor painting would be divine!
Awesome! My kids will LOVE it someday!!
I’ll surely lik back to your post! Thank you!!
Holy crap. I’m making this.
Awesome cake!
p.s. STAIRS
How many WW points is this cake?
sorry that you’re dealing with some weird backlash about the dyes and soda lol. this cake looks so awesome! i posted it on my blog w/ a link to your site (stole your pic, sorry, i didn’t bake it yet, hope that’s okay). i’m absolutely making this for my daughter’s b’day! Thanks so much for the idea and inspiration.
amazing color~~~~
i like the cake so much .. jzt like the fruit sugars
Hey, this is an awesome idea! I just tried it last night and it was a big hit. I went a little heavy on the food coloring though so the colors are REALLY bold, haha..probably not something people should eat on a regular basis.
Anyway, I made a small modification: Instead of substituting everything with soda, I just replaced 1 1/3 cups of water with 1 1/3 cups of soda, and then used everything else as the box indicates (1/3 c veggie oil and 3 eggs). I also didn’t use egg whites as some mixes call for – I just used the whole egg so as not to be wasteful, and it turned out fine! This is of course only if you don’t want a fat-free cake.
Thanks so much for the idea, it inspired me to bake more!
My 3yr old loves to take rainbow baths… water + clear plastic bottles of food colored water= hours of bathtub fun and happy clean kids. She recently started asking me to make a rainbow cake. I had no idea what to do but googled Rainbow Cake and shazaaam!!! We had a ball making it for my moms Birthday party and I was such a hero for answering her rainbow request! It’s so darn cheerful! A huge hit with everyone and my mom is a Weight Watcher to boot!
PS I fucking love all the cursing about cake!
Yum! I just made this cake, and it’s now baking in the oven. I’m making it for my nana’s 85th birthday. She’ll get a kick outta this! Thanks!
I love this and am grateful for the post. Trying to make this tomorrow with four little kids for their grandpa’s 60th Birthday. I love it. I love the colors and cannot wait to see if the kids poop colors!
Thanks for all the time you put into this post. I am not that great in the kitchen, but I think even I can do this with all your direction!
I din’t know that som many people could mean something about cake making
Anyways; I am Norwegian and tried to make this cake with ingredients bought here. It was so much fun, and I even tried to make a photo session like you did. The photoes you made made me wanna try the cake! So I made you for my kid’s birthday. I made the same mistake as you did the first time. I should have doubled the cake mix. And I didn’t bother with the diet stuff. And last but not least. The coloring in Norwegian coloring isn’t as strong as yours – but it was still cool 
I am sorry it is in Norwegian, but you can watch the photoes: http://olava.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/regnbuekake-noe-moderert/
that looks so cool, yummy, and fun!
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Betty Crocker supports gay rights.
xP Okay, I’ll probably get on peoples bad side by saying that, but it had to come out.
Anyway, excellent idea. I love the colors. I’m definately making that for my friends on their birthdays
What a fantastic idea. Thank you for sharing it.
BEST thing ever! I LOVE IT!
I’m not even kidding, I am going to plan my son’s entire bday party around this cake. It is too awesome. I love it!
Lindo bolo. Adoraria fazer mas para isso necessito que alguem ajude a traduzir. Grata
whooooaaaaa FOODGASM.
made a comment about your site on my blog, btw.
Hey, I’m here by way of beagoodmom.com
I tried making this cake for my husband’s birthday, but instead of rainbow I wanted to make it purple and white all mixed up (he’s a senior at TCU and those are the school colors). However, when I tried to double the recipe there was too much batter and I didn’t realize it until it started bubbling over the side of one of the cake pans in my oven! Now I’ve got a terrible purple and white mess in there. Just thought you might want to add a caveat that you should definitely use larger pans if you plan on doubling the recipe. Way to go me for screwing up the easier than easy cake!
Made this cake in a bundt pan and it turned out great. As the colored layers cooked they curved up the side of the pan and when sliced looked like a rainbow! Thanks.
I don’t see why you would want to fit in a dress size 2. There is no point. Enjoy food and life, don’t make yourself unhappy dieting. It’s a waste of your time!
Quote: “I dieted for 2 months and I’ll I’ve wasted was… 2 months!”
genius!
Very cool idea and recipe. Could you use a toothpick to pull the colors into each other, swirl, etc. – Sort of like what’s sometimes done with two colors of icing? I guess you’d have to swirl downwards though, to see it when it was cut.
What about little blobs of color in between to make polka-dots?
It would also be cute to make cupcakes with daisies or hearts made with a contrasting color in a squeeze bottle on top of each one.
OK, you’ve inspired me!
Thanks!
Lira@zandapanda.com
wowowowowowowowowwowow that is SO pretty, and SOOO chemically!
I LOVE it, and will DEFINITELY be making it for some fun future occasion! maybe even in all reds, pinks and white for valentine’s day or something?!?
Visually stunning! I am going to be making this cake quite frequently..the rainbow poops are just a bonus!
I made this cake last night and it tastes DELICIOUS! I ended up using store bought frosting and the top layer had a removal-from-pan incident, but it was still lovely!
http://i44.tinypic.com/1z71qts.jpg
I “Stumbled Upon” this recipe and made this cake a couple weeks ago for my birthday and it was amazing!
I made the regular cake mix on the box, partly because I’m not really watching my weight and I just love making it the way Betty intended..and partly because I was bringing it in to school, where there would be about 13 hungry drummer dudes I had to feed (I am a music/ percussion major, and the only girl!), and I don’t really think a bunch of grungy, poor, college guys would be into the low-fat taste of the cake. Anyways, they called it “Maura’s Hippie Cake” because of all the colors and how it looked like Tye-dye so much. The colors were so bright and it came out wonderful and so delicious. I did not double the ingredients because I didn’t need THAT much cake, but it still came out almost perfect! Thank you so much for the recipe! This was a great idea!
How colorful! I am definitely going to try this!!
this is freaking amazing!!!!!! i have never seen a cake like this in the world!!!!! thank you so much for the step by step. i will definitely be trying this out!!!!! you rock!!!!
This cake is amazing!
hey ~~so cool ，l like！
wonderful idea! thank you so much! I made my own white cake but used the rainbow cake idea, and it’s so much fun. i can’t wait for my daughter’s birthday party tomorrow. she’s so proud of her rainbow cake and cupcakes.
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WOW! Love it. I have to def try this out ;o)
hey aleta, I tried this cake…you can read about it here lf you want
ihttp://belovedaimees.blogspot.com/2009/02/rainbow-cake-disaster.htm
hi Aleta ^^
Would like to grab one of the pic and put it in my blog
’sure does gonna make people drools’ hehehehe
Has anyone tried this cake using the directions on the box?
Wow. Thats so neat. Great job!
This was such a cute idea! Made with my 14 year old and made regular cake mix and put into cupcakes for cake contest for fat tuesday!! Best in color was won. Everybody was like a cupcake then they cut it open and everybody got excited!!
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I LOVE this! I love it so much I made it for my Mardi Gras bake-off! Hope I did you proud! http://www.bbwilder.blogspot.com/mard-gras-bake-off.html
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This is so cool. Im making this for my daughters 2nd birthday and I cant wait to see how it turns out.
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the cake was horrible…maybe it was the sprite…but it looked way cool!
Hi! I just found your site a couple of days ago, and just read this recipe tonight. I immediately made it for my roommate, who needed some cheering up, and it worked (both in the oven and for her mood)! I used pistachio pudding mix–mostly because that’s what the store had, but it tasted great and had the added benefit of already being green. Thanks for sharing, I’m looking forward to going through your archives!
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My daughter and I made a rainbow cake today and it turned out so cool! We made the cake per the instructions on the cake box and used canned frosting. We decided to use the neon gel colors instead of the basic colors. We had so much fun!!! One mistake we made was trying to mix the neon colors to make a fifth color. Not a good idea… one layer was poop-colored brown. Nonetheless, it tasted wonderful. Thanks for the step-by-step Aleta. You made us look like experts.
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Nooooo, something went wrong with my Italian version…. bleahhh, it looks terrible and tastes even worse!!
It’s in the garbage can now! Rest in peace!!!
I think Italian ingredients are not as good as yours….
I’m AMAZED at the bizarre backlash on this!! Eating fake sugar once a year in moderation will definitely not kill you, make you fat, or give you cancer.
People can be so self-righteous. (and this is coming from someone who works at an all-organic, all-natural produce and meat store!) Anyways, I’m definitely going to try this cake. It looks so dang awesome!
HILARIOUS! I never thought I would laugh out loud when I was reading a recipe. I love it! H
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Love the gray icing psych-out. “What the hell kinda boring-ass cake is this?” They’d say, then BAM. How’s that foot taste, jerk!
Well done.
Andy, you take the cake! (pun intended) Your comment made my laugh out loud. I can’t wait to make this. I bought gel colors for the first time last Christmas, but I got the purple-orange-green-pink pack. Those are some BRIGHT colors!
I’ve purchased cake made with soda before, but I never knew it was considered a “diet” food. It tastes so rich.
instigator,
I trust your credibility. However, as a biomedical engineer, I would like to offer some input of my own.
It is true that Splenda is simply chlorinated sugar- a chlorocarbon. Food-grade chlorocarbons like Splenda will not break up or dissociate in the human body, nor do they remain in the body; they are simply passed as waste. Splenda is perfectly safe to consume in reasonable quantities.
However, as with almost anything, it is possible to have too much. For immunological (immune system) effects to be seen, requires 4,300 Splenda packets/day. To see any effects on intestinal pH requires at least 6,000 packets/day. One study linked DNA damage to 11,450 packets/day.
Just keep your Splenda intake under a few thousand packets a day and you’ll be just fine.
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OMGZ! Mines in the oven right now!! ^_^ I used only three colors instead of 6, but it looks delicious either way. Its a fun surprise if you frost it with regular white frosting too! Thanks!!
I love this cake!
I’ve never even thought of food coloring as bad or inedible, so that didn’t phase me at all…
I made it for my friend’s 18th birthday (using the regular recipe on the box) and everyone went crazy when they saw it. Great recipe; I definitely will be making more!
Hey there! Awesome looking cake!
Just one nitpick? Don’t forget to tell people to add that disk of parchment paper to the bottom of the pan! If you don’t, the batter will stick to the bottom of the pan, and when you take it out, it’ll get torn up or fall apart.
I guess since this is a low-fat recipe it’s extra sticky.
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I tried the recipe today….stuck to the bottom of the pan but looks great. For any cake decorators out there who are used to leveling their cakes…don’t try it with this recipe. The cake crumbles. Since we aren’t a low-fat household I think next time I’ll try with a regular cake recipe and color per these instructions. The icing was a bit sticky as well. I prefer the consistency of buttercream, so we’ll try a super-fat rainbow cake next time…
If only there were awards for most-commented-post-evarrrrr
you’d win big time, Aleta, way to go, I’m doing this and feeding it to everybody I can invite over, children of all ages!
I’m a third grade teacher and we made this cake for Dr. Suess Read Across America Day. It was so much fun and my students loved it!!! Thank you so much for sharing it. I recently found your blog and I’m in love with it and your tutorials.
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That cake is a WORK OF ART!! It’s got more colour than one of my paintings!
One of the most enjoyable blog posts I’ve read for ages – thank you!
This is so different…I will absolutely try this…very cooool!
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Can this cake be made as a large sheet cake? Im looking to make a tie dye cake for my 17 year old!!
Oh my Girlfriend, I am soooooo inspired! My 4 1/2 year old son Alex is going to LOVE that!
Will you be my mommy? LOL
What a fabulous cake! My grandchildren(5&7) will be baking this together on their next school vacation.
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I think it’s gross! I don’t even think it’s “pretty” – sorry.
Oh, the recip- ALL HAIL THE HYPNOCAKE
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Very pretty cake. I decorated cakes on the side and will have to remember this for a kids party.
Last summer I made a Zebra cake for a little girl (her request). I had a mold for a horses head and altered it for a zebra (made out of chocolate) then wrapped the cake in chocolate.
I used the same method as you for pouring the batter into the pans alternating between white and chocolate, so when you cut the cake it looked like Zebra stripes. Never thought of doing it to make a rainbow cake. Thanks I’m always looking for great ideas.
Wow, I came for the cake, but stayed for the comments. Entertaining to say the least.
Love your blog. Keep rocking it.
LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to make one!
Ok I haven’t read all the comments but I must say, most of you are freaking idiots with the comments. Seriously, either look at the cake and go ok that’s cool and go on your merry way or keep quiet. I think most have forgotten the old passage if you have nothing nice to say then keep your mouth shut (Ok with my own little twist).
As for alternatives, there is such a thing as applesauce instead of soda or pumpkin puree. I use it all the time instead of oil. Oil goes bad in my house so fast that it’s cheaper and easier to add applesauce (organic unsweetened to boot). Unless you live in a bubble people you are going to have chemicals in your body no matter what either by water, breathing, touching stuff. Use hand sanitizer??? UM hello chemicals. Just admire how pretty the cake is and if you don’t like it, then get over it and go to something else, it’s not like you have to sit there and see the cake and comment on it.
I think I’m going to make this with my daughter, fill her up with all the chemicals and junk, only I’m not going to make it with that recipe, just my recipe and my chemical food coloring that is just soo yummy.
I think you did a wonderful job on the cake and can’t wait to make it myself, although I think we might do cupcakes as I promised her not too long ago that we could do cupcakes and haven’t had a chance to yet. Thanks for the inspiration.
I don’t urdenstand! You made two cakes and then you put them one over the other????Pleas contact me in my mail.
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and thats all i have to say.
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What lovely colors! I am going to make this into cupcakes for my daughter & her LGBT Club at school.
No, I’m not a big fan of artificial colors and diet soda, but I’m not planning on eating this recipe 5x a day, every day, for the next 5 years. Moderation is a good thing… and fear is really, really annoying.
Hi there! I made the cake & it was enjoyed by all! But I forgot to take pictures of the making process. Would you mind if I coppied you pictures to post the process on my blog??
So I just tried to make this. It completely fell apart! What happened?
I was a bit confused about the instructions, because it said at the beginning no eggs, no oil, no water, but later under The Dieting it said: Mix the cake mix with the soda according to regular instructions on box.
I just took the dry cake mix and put in the soda. Did I do it wrong?
Anyway, it tastes delicious! but it completely fell apart and icing it was very difficult. I’m worried about what’ll happen when I cut it :-/
Maybe better luck next time
Pretty and controversial, it doesn’t get better than that.
The cupcakes were a huge success! Thank you!
Oh man, you’ll never see this down here, but my daughter’s birthday is next week. I’d like to make this for her. If I’m making it for a kid, will regular soda make it TOO sweet or will it be ok?
Thanks!
I can’t read through all of the comments on here to see if anyone else has mentioned this, but it reminds me A LOT of another REALLY COOL cake that I saw. If you type “Steamed Rainbow Eggwhite Cake” or “Steamed Rainbow Egg White Cake” (diffrent pics come up with the diffrent spellings of egg white) into Google you can see what I mean. The cooking method is obviously diffrent, as well as ingredients, but a similar look!
I’m going to do this for my son’s science birthday party. He has baked cake with me before and he will think its cool that we don’t follow the recipie!
I’ll let each kid make their own cupcake. I bet the kids will love the soda/cake mix/coloring as a fun activity!
SUPER FUN CAKE!!! I Stumbled on your blog a day ago, and wracked my single girl brain until I came up with a semi-legitemate excuse for trying out this cake – my neighbors! Took it over there tonight, the kids loved it, and I’ve already got two people asking for the recipe. I used the regular liquid food coloring (not gel), and while it didn’t turn out quite as brite as in the photos, it still turned out great!
This cake looks awesome! I first saw it on Flickr (you should check out Steph Goralnick’s photos, she’s great. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgoralnick/).
Anyway, I’m a complete newbie when it comes to anything related to baking, and I have a question so basic I’m almost embarrassed to ask. So, um… how do you stack the two parts of the cake on top of each other? One photo shows both halves of the cake just after they’re done baking. Both halves look like they’re concave on top. In the last photo, it looks like the bottom half has a nice, flat top so the top half can sit on it evenly.
How? Do you saw off the domed part with a bread knife (and then eat it)? That’s what I’d do.
this cake ROCKS i have never seen a cake made with soda ALSOME
This cake is absolutely awesome! What great color and looks like fun to make. I’m defineately trying this one!
Rainbow cakes rock! I started a tradition of making one every year for my little brother’s birthday!
It’s a layer cake, so you make two layers, level one off for the bottom, and then generally I leave the top domed because I think it looks more traditional that way. And yes, eat the trimmed part before you frost because that’s when it tastes best. =)
My cake fell apart as well, but I may have used too much food coloring (I was not happy with the shade of green I was getting) and on top of that I forgot to grease the cake pans. Though the test toothpicks came out clean, there were still gooey portions in the bottom-center of the cake. I left them in the suggested five additional minutes, but the tops were browning and ruining the colors, so I pulled ‘em.
You should submit this recipe over at allrecipes.com, their rainbow cakes are pathetic in comparison.
Oh! I absolutely loved the frosting. It was hard to spread, it’s true, but absolutely delicious.
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Just clicking blog to blog and came across this… beautiful cake… thanks for sharing. Your blog is going on the bookmarked list!
So,
My girlfriend and I attempted making this last night and it was totally a failure of epic proportions.
The cake burned on the bottom and stuck to the pan like mad.
The only thing that turned out was the “frosting”.
Grr…..
This is the coolest cake that I have EVER seen! I cannot wait to make it for my kids. Plus, they will love helping me make it too. I really think that this cooking lesson will be a memory that they will never forget. Thank you so much for sharing it with us! Plus, your pictures are colorful and lovely!
I’m sorry that there are a few negative nellies that just HAD to post here with their stupid advice. Almost all of prepared food has food coloring in it, even the cake mixes that we all use have food coloring. So the people who are complaining eat it all day, probably while they are gulping down diet soda! HA idiots! Maybe they are just bored and lonely because they don’t have a rainbow cake!!! :-0
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I love this and will definitely try it. I once ate jello that looked very similar but was unable to get the recipe as to how they mixed all the colors without actually blending together into one color. I live in Bisbee (a town that was dying and hippies invaded and made the town alive again, lots of tourists) where tye-dyeing is very popular and I bet this cake would be a hit here. People who don’t appreciate you sharing your recipe have no business being on your site) I think it’s fantastic. Thanks!!!!
I think I like you FAQ more than the entire recipe.
I’ll have to try this some time.
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This is great! My mom’s 83rd birthday is April 1st and I am totally going to make this!
I made this cake Tuesday. You can see it here: http://typical-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/03/hidden-rainbow.html
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she is very perfect in rainbow cake made….yumy yummy.
what size pans are they? and is it in one whole cake mix/pop per pan?
thanks
Your blog is awesome! I love the cake idea! BTW I also bake, and am 25. Rock on!
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Stephy, this doesn’t contain gelatin, the mix is pudding, which is gelatin free. I’m a vegetarian, I read labels like crazy.
I HAVE to try this recipe. I eat healthy for the most part, but this is a special occasion thing. I will report back
que lindooooooooooooooo. i’m hungry. (L)
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It was sooooo much fun making this cake!!!
thank you!!
You are awesome!! I know my kids will flip for this cake. I am going to try both the diet and conventional versions. Keep up the fantastic work!!
Hello. Do you think this would work with Schnuck’s brand white cake mix using the directions on the box? With the food coloring and what not?
So… I made the cake. The batter was AWESOME, tasted great, but after it was baked, it came out too heavy. I won’t be making the diet version of this again, full fat for me next time. The colors were beautiful though! Thank You so much for sharing this recipe, my 3 year old niece enjoyed making this.
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Well nice idea! Congrats!
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and if you are gay, thats a good way to say your parents, i am like this cake, this is inside me
This is fabulous! Thank you for all the notes & instructions. I will be making this shortly!
I can’t believe all the complaints about chemicals. Nobody is saying eat this all day, every day. And most of you on diets can’t say you have never slpurged. All the fresh fruits and vegetables you eat, how many chemicals are in those? Pesticides. I think the bold color under plain icing is an amazing surprise. I plan on making this in a few days for my daughters fourth birthday.
i made the rainbow cake!!!!!!
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hahah…i love the sardonically hilarious instructional narrative. my 5 yr old & i will have fun with this =) thanks for making baking fun !
Oh my god.
You are god, thats the the coolest cake ever and i really mean it.
Lots of cred to you my idol!
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Hey, awesome idea
Probably way above my head cooking-wise, but still… i might try it
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My cake baking will never be the same!! I just love it !
your cake is gay.
hey this looks like the best desert i have ever seen in my life you should sell it at publix or kroger totally
love
tiffany chambers
bolos coloridos
My goOODNESS!!! This is the best cake ever!!
I posted about your visionariness on my blog (www.forthevisionaries.tumblr.com)
Hope that’s okay.
Cred to yoU!
thea.
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Hey, I absolutely love this cake and it was a huge hit at my best friend’s birthday, Thanks!! I actually didn’t use the sprite the first time but is that how you get the colors to be so vibrant?? My colors were dull even when using a whole tube (yet small) of gel food coloring. Any suggestions, maybe on a specific type of gel to use? Thanks again, love the cake.
You would have to eat a whole cake everyday for 10 years before the fake stuff would give you cancer.For cryin’ out loud have some FUN!
hola…wow esta super padre el cake …!!!
hoy lo hice y si me quedo…!!!
jeje
tnks
I have to make this cake. It made laugh and happy just looking at the pic. It reminds me of a 70’s Tie Dyed shirt!
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Hi Aleta!
I heard about your site from “evad” at colourlovers.com. I hope you don’t mind that I made a link to my blog to share this awesome recipe (it went along really well with the photo of the rainbow that I caught outside yesterday!). Thanks for sharing yummy foods with us all!!
ilove it!!!…but i don’t get where do you get thoses colors…colors in a cake, what a yummy idea.
i am SO making this for my bday!! YES I AM!!
Has anyone tried this concept with cupcakes…..I need to make some for a child’s birthday at school thought cupcakes might be easier ???? Wasnt sure how the colors would turn out. Thank you.
I turned this recipe into cupcakes and they came out AMAZING! Lots of work with all those colors, but one box of cake mix will give you about 20 cupcakes. Its delish!
Thank you so much I figured I wasnt the first to think of this on here
I thought it would be fun since it’s almost easter too!
Hey! Your cake got linked in a Brazilian blog!
And I’m totally trying it for my birthday on saturday!
I just made the cupcake version of this recipe for my daugthers Girl Scout meeting today and for my 4yr olds preschool Easter party on tuesday. They turned out so pretty, i will be making the cake for my 7yr olds birthday next month!
Congratulations! Great cake!
so happy you made this recipe available.
http://heyjupiter118.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/open-minded-cake/
The cake’s awesome, but not as good as the FAQ section at the end – that’s hysterical!
LOVE IT!!! I am using it as an idea to do with a children’s book. Love your instructions and blogging language and approach…very cool! Your directions are very clear and easy to follow
Not much for food coloring usually but HEY, it’s fun and we don’t eat this shit everyday…as you said! Thanks
your cake its awesomee!!!!
its pretty and fun for kids. and you instructions are easy to follow as I`m from southamerica.
so thanks for the recepee. I`m going to make it this week
Hahahahahhaha, listen to those people scared of rainbows
“ZOMG! It’s not the normal white or brown color, and only Satan would bake a delectable colorful cake with food colouring! ”
Funny to see people still ignorant of how much colored dye is in everything they eat. Unless they are 100% vegan – raw, which I must ask, why are you reading a cake blog?
Top notch stuff, I wanna shit rainbows too.
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I’m not going to be a negative comment leaving douche like the small-minded majority up there, because let’s face it, they could have clicked away/closed the window anytime they chose, instead, they chose to stay and take up quality comment space.
This is an entirely fantastically unique cake idea, I shall try it the next time there is a Cake Making Opportunity, I’m sure everyone will love it.
Your photos are also quite incredible as well, and you did an amazing job on frosting the cake.
That is AWESOME! I’ve just fallen in love…
Our Cake Crumbled So We Made It Into Layers Divided With The Frosting. It looked Like Something A Magical Unicorn Would Throw Up.
That looks oh so good.
Om nom nom nom!
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Ohmygoodnezz! Raining bows cake!!! Fabulous pics, I may have to try this. Yummylicious.
That FAQ is awesome. You must be great IRL.
You know what??? You just made me crave for cakes and I wanna go to the nearest store to bake some!!! Awesome site!
I cannot wait to make this for my son, he just loves colors. I also dj and my friend swould love to have this at our next shindig. Who doesn’t love cake the day after. MMmmand all those chemicals, delicious you only live once so enjoi the damned cake, i am!! Thank you for the totally cool idea! I am going to share with all my friends!!
I am so down with this it hurts.
Can’t wait to try it. Thanks!
OMG, I nearly died at the FAQ’s. Some people are really clueless, jerks, nasty (anonymous, I mean YOU!)and rude. Some can’t follow a simple recipe.
I had a freind at work that insisted her new bread machine wouldn’t work, so I took it home and made loaves of bread in it, the same recipe in mine. I took them all to work 2 days later to show her. When I told her how I went about it, she wrote down EVERY LITTLE DETAIL. I told her my house was very cold one morning, so I put hot water in the metal bread pan, then dumped it out and added the ingredients. She could NOT wrap her brain around why I did that. I did it just to make sure the pan wasn’t too cold. I also sat all the ingredients out of the fridge so they would be room temp. She wanted to know exactly how long I set them out and how I knew they were ‘ready’. She never did get that bread machine to work for her. GO FIGURE!!! Thanks for the laugh.
This is an absolutely delightful cake! I just wish my husband and I had seen this cake when we were planning our wedding…I totally would have served it, if only to shock our guests! Although I don’t know if my MIL (a professional baker who made our cake) would have approved.
Sweetheart would have gone along with it in a heartbeat! He loves to “jolt” people out of their comfort zone. 
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Can I just say, that using very much Splenda or any other sugar substitute will keep me in the bathroom for a while. My body just does not tolerate it. Most “sugar free” foods have a disclaimer on them that over indulgence will work like a laxitive. The exception seems to be diet soda. I can’t wait to send this recipe to my daughter-in -law. She will soooo love making it. She made green mashed potatos with blue gravy once. A hit with the kids.
I made cupcakes like this last night (although I made the regular fattening version with eggs / oil and even added a package of vanilla pudding mix) Don’t know if they looked better or tasted better.
Websurfing, and came across your site! What a great idea…I can’t wait to try it out!
Grrrama….you added pudding to the cake mix? It didnt mess up the consistancy ? It sounds like it would make them very yummy…..
Great Job!!! I love it and whole family did. Great idea.. And for everyone whose said that it would not go by well for the kids we did this for a family picnic and instead I put them in the ice cream cones and the kids loved it ages range from 1-12 years old.( not to mention I loved not having sugar high kids) Thank you great job again!!
Well Done!! Excellent Idea! Fabulous Pictures!! Can’t wait to try…. and don’t worry, if I screw something up, I know it’s something I’ve done and not faulty instructions.
(BTW…. Excellent tone in writing your presentation…. You Go Girl!!!)
I’m Making this cake right now!!! i hope it turns out good!…i love rainbows and i love the look of your cake im going to try cup cakes too!
What an awesome idea! I am going to make this cake for my friend Gerard’s birthday and tell him that it is a gay cake. He will be so appreciative.
I love you!
I just made the cake and it´s beautiful!!!!! I could kiss you right now!! LOL
um. If you food snob people want to whine and sound all high and mighty about this not being healthy- why bother looking for a CAKE recipe? Go eat some raw veggies. From your own garden. That’s about the only way you can eat “healthy” without “preservatives and OMGSOMUCHSUGAHHHH” you can get.
Seriously. This is a cute, creative, easy and delicious recipe.
And those organic foods that are so great for you? No. They’re not. Do some research, they’re almost worse.
Wow that is one sweet ass cake!
Making it tomorrow!
I. MUST. MAKE. THIS.
Oh my! I have never seen anything like this! I love baking and do it for a living and i am always looking for new ideas! I do have to agree with Instigator and everything that he had stated! If you don’t like what goes into this beautiful piece of culinary artistry then don’t eat it!! Let the rest of us enjoy it!
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I love this idea i really want to make it for my older brothers birthday. I think that he will absolutely love this. I was just wondering. I already have a 2 liter bottle of diet 7up, that no one is drinking, can i use that instead of sprite zero? Also, when you are dying the different portions of the rainbow, do you use the whole container of food coloring, or only a few drops?
Thanks for the great blog, i found it using that stumble button thing! i love it so much! <3
Alex.
I’m 16, so you can probably imagine how much I LOVE THIS.
However, you can probably imagine how incapable I am at cooking anything save the cake recipe my mother has taught me over the years- would it be possible to just make that in a bowl, seperate it into 6 dishes, coulour the dishes and then throw it all into the pan? I hope so…
You know you love me, xoxo, C
THIS WAS A REALLY GOOD “HOW TO DO” SPEECH THANX!! =]
…marry me?
I will marry you
This cake is such a sexy beast :3
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Thanks for the idea…We made it according to the cake directions (no one on a diet) and it came out GREAT!
would liquid food coloring give the cake a funny taste?
i cant wait to make it!!
D
if you spin the cake batter around in a circle before you bake it, it makes a really cool pattern when you cut into it.
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This is great! I’m shopping for ingredients tomorrow and baking it for my sister’s birthday.
I’m baking this cake today for the 2nd time (first one was a HIT!) and I absolutely love it! Perfect cake for Easter, I think, with the colors!
I found your cake pictures by accident and have been captivated since. I kept wondering how much more fun it would be if the colors tasted like a rainbow. I checked the bottled essences in the bakery aisle but didn’t find much – peppermint, anise, lemon… Nothing that sounded rainbow-like. I eventually found a website showing how to make Skittles flavored vodka. That’s it! TASTE THE RAINBOW! I separated t 1lb bag of Skittles by color, dissolved each color over night in 6 oz of water, filtered the solution through coffee filters. I added 1/2 cup flour to my 2 box cake recipe (I followed the directions on the box – no soda) and cut the water by 2/3 cup.Once separated into different colors, I added 3 Tbs of Skittle-juice to each respective color. Unfortunately there were only 5 flavors so blue is simply vanilla cake. Yep, way worse for you than your “plain vanilla” rainbow cake but even more fun. Thanks for the ideas!
I’m so excited to try baking this tomorrow!! Thank you for posting! I love the dieting aspect of this recipe, too. I’m going to try to make cupcakes.
So simple to make, and a lot of fun!
The colors make the cake so much more fun to eat!
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Thank you for giving me the recipe for my cake at my big gay wedding I am having next summer. Chemicals and all, it beats being a ass on the internet to complete strangers any day. The rainbow BMs are just a party favor. =]
Thanks again!!
Love is love, no matter what your love is.
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Fantastic! Just made this for Easter. Low calories and delicious. I did the greenish frosting and added shredded coconut to the top (adds an excellent accent flavor if you like coconut).
Is this safe to eat?
I love the photograph of the empty glass bowls and the stack of spoons. It’s beautiful.
As is the cake . . . can’t wait to make it.
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Hey, nice tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a glass of beer to that man from that chat who told me to go to your blog
I made cupcakes with this recipe. They were stunning, and everybody loved them. The colors were vibrant.
One more thing: I discovered there are many colors of food coloring to choose from. I even found neon colors at Michael’s craft store.
made it. loved it. was praised and envied by friends for my rainbow brite prowess. will be making it again!
Stumbled across your page, love the rainbow cake I am going to try it soon!
Speaking of Camp Bisco (see ya there!) my friend made a disco biscuit themed version of this a few months ago before a show……it was FUNTASTIC : )
I wonder if people remember what they are arguing over- a freaking rainbow cake!! How can anyone ever say any harsh words about a rainbow cake!?!?
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amazing!!!I Great Idea!
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Cool cake, but can’t we all do without the profanity? I mean REALLY!…..Lets all try to clean up our potty typing along with our dishes
Did this last weekend and it was amazing!! Just used a plain cake mix from the store though.
so if i don’t want to make it the ‘diet’ way, I can just use the recipe from the box & then add the food coloring?
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is there a vegetarian version/ a way to make w/o jello?
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my favourite cake OF ALL TIME! made it on my birthday! thanks for the idea!
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I find it funny that so many people are freaked out about the recipe itself. Duh, folks. I am allergic to the sweetener in that diet soda. But I LOVED this post. There are eleventymillion other cake recipes out there. Seems pretty obvious to me – an infrequent baker myself – that you could use whatever light colored cake recipe you wanted to given some common sense limitations, and then follow the coloring/layering technique to achieve the gorgeous rainbow effect?
As for people who can’t imagine anyone wanting to eat this because of the coloring… I can’t imagine being unable to imagine a world in which not everyone likes the same things I do. How very sad.
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That cake looks so cool. Your pic of the clear bowls and spoons is a work of art!
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I just tried out the recipe which actually worked out pretty well. There were a couple suggestions I have for people who plan on baking this rainbow cake:
1. be careful when taking the cake out of the pan, because it is more likely to stick to the bottom of the pan as it does not have any oil in the recipe. What worked for me was before I flipped the cake pan over, I shook the cake side to side so that it loosened the cake from the pan.
2. since the frosting was both very hard to spread, i decided to add in some of the ginger ale that I used in the cake mix. It not only made the frosting more spreadable, it also added a little bit of soda flavoring to the frosting that made it more tasty. I definitely recommend it!
Thanks again for posting this recipe! Love it! And I never even knew you could use soda instead of eggs, oil and water!
made a rainbow cake!!
was lovely. thank you for the idea.
thank you soooo much for this post! i’m totally making this cake for my sixteenth birthday party! ^_^ (ignore all the flamers, they’re just jealous they didn’t post this first.)
A friend and I made rainbow cupcakes this weekend for our other friends birthday by following this recipe. They were a huge hit! Everyone got so excited when the peeled away the foil wrapper and took a bite out of them. I’m so glad I found your site!
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Hey I was looking for a rainbow cake of some sort and saw this one and thought it was so cool. so I made it for my daughters 7th b-day everyone thought it was great and she loved it. I did do the sprite thing and no one could tell the difference from a real cake, Thanks for the tips and idea for a rainbow cake.
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Why? Why? Why? Are all these people moaning and being repetitive with their statements?
This is so cool, what a cake! I am making it for my boy aka Rainbow Boy (he invented this super hero) powered by the ray of the rainbow and also greatly assisted by illicit quantities of sugar heh heh….He will go bonkers over this cake. Thanks a gazillion for the tute…I still can’t believe the whining ninnies, why would you even be looking at a cake like this is your kid was allergic to colourings, obviously the poor kid comes from a defective gene pool with a parent who imparts such wisdom! Der! And that person that challenged the notion of it being a rainbow cake! Clearly they have arguing in their list of hobbies!
Thank you for sharing this cake, too cool. Love ya blog, love ya work!
xxxL
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I am getting married at the weekend and am incredibly tempted to make this for the reception! Not sure if I have time… thanks for the recipe though!
I just wanted to say that I thought your FAQ answers were hilarious.
I’m going to make this cake for my sister’s 30th birthday, but I think I’ll make the frosting bright pink.
I made a similar cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday! So much fun and very gratifying when it was cut since only a couple of people knew what was inside!!
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Excellent! I will be making this cake with my little ones. I love the idea. (I also thought your FAQ answers where hilarious!) It’s hard to find the gel colors where I live, I might order online as I don’t want to skimp on the vibrant colors. This is a keeper! Thank You!
This cake looks absolutely wonderful. I am so happy to finally see something different to do with cakes. Even though reading through some of the comments people have written here about “killing your kids” blah blah, I definitely would love to try this one out and “serve it to my family..including myself”
For all those people who have shared all their negative comments: Hey Everyone has their own opinions right, but has no one ever heard that wonderful saying “If you have nothing nice to say, DONT say anything at all” maybe a few of you should take a lesson on that. No one is forcing you to eat or even make the cake so leave the people who would actually like to share positive comments enough room to do just that.
Thank you for posting this recipe and the wonderful pictures along with it, I cant wait to try it out.
Omg I am totally that gay dude who makes cakes for his parents XD
I have to try this out.
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We made the cake for our friend’s surprise party and it was a hit. It looked and tasted great. Thanks!
I wonder what your poo looked like the next day…
This cake looks cool. i can’t wait to make it i want to make it soon.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the rainbow
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aspartame and other sweeteners. Do your homework first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
I just made this cake! I used two boxes of lemon cake mix and the only two colors I had a little issue with were blue and purple. I kept adding color, though, and got the shades I wanted. I used the cake mix directions, so it’s not a low-fat cake and I kept out enough batter to make 6 cupcakes. I had to bake about 10-13 min longer due to the layers obviously being thicker, but it looked pretty good. I made a normal white, buttercream frosting and will be serving it tomorrow at work. Thanks for the directions (and photos!) !
I love the Idea…
I print it n hope I can bake it one day for a special event. Thanks…
I made the cake for my boyfriend about 2 weeks ago. I made some extra for my family and friends. Everybody LOVED it
. I used Betty Croker’s French Vanilla for the mix and liquid colors. The result looked awesome. Thanks!!!
i love the color
i love the recipe
i love your hilarious comments
this will be used for the pride parade this year…
thanks,
~angel
The person that’s answering to those questions seems like a bitch with an attitude.
okay well this is just BRILLIANT.
I have definitely got to do this sometime.
I just thought I would interject here and say this is a wonderful recipe! I used Pillsbury cake mix instead of BC – I often make cupcakes and I just like the way they come out better. Anyhow, personal preference really.
I did the recipe this weekend for a multi celebration of Mother’s Day and 2 birthdays. It was a hit and everyone loved it! I doubled the recipe as stated. I used springform pans and baked it using the bundt cake times.
Full fat recipe here and while the purple did look kind of puke-ish before baking, it turned out lovely afterwards.
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I loved this – Made a batch of cupcakes for my boy’s B-Day – This inspired Camo-cakes for a friend’s Camoflauge wedding. The Camoflauge cupcakes were a big hit too! Thanks!
Okay, so my blog partner was totally inspired by this post (and how couldn’t she be) and posted some cupcakes she made using this idea today. Which is how I found this post. And I literally laughed out loud reading your FAQs. Oh, ALL the things I would LOVE to tell blog readers if I had the cajones…
OMG finding this is PERFECT!!!! ok so i have been looking for some way to make my wedding cake colorful with out being tacky or too much. so i was almost giving up on my dream when i found this!!! so i now plan on having this as the inside of the cake and then getting it iced in solid white with colorful butterflies cascading up the side, and a solid colored ribbon lining the bottom of each layer i think it will give the best of both worlds. :]] THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!!
# 33, i have lots of friends who are alergic to red food colouring, it probably doesnt matter what brand. You might wanna talk to a doctor.
Just wanted to print this out so I can make it. It looks fantastic. Is there a printable version you’ve got, maybe a .pdf? Or do I have to subscribe – thanks.
I was inspired by this recipe to make one similar. I used just a normal white cake mix and made it as per the instructions and used the food coloring I had in the cupboard. We made 3 dozen cupcakes for the big triple birthday party this weekend, all color co-ordinated for each person. They turned out wonderful, look delicious, and taste great!! I did one batch chocolate cake with white (dyed green) stripes. I can’t believe how great they look. Thanks for posting this and sharing with everyone. Of course people can change the recipe if they want, the most important part is the rainbow!!
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Here’s my version of the cake using colours from Bulk Barn:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slurm/3546246044/
Turned out great!
Hey,
My name is Christina and I used your cake recipe and it turned out perfect Thanks so much, The website I gave you is my myspace page. Just go to pics and the Friends album its posted there.
WOOOOWW!!!
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What a FUNtastic cake!!! Oh Aleta, you made my day! Thank you so much for sharing this.
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All the best!
Oh my goodness….This is the most fun cake EVER! I made this cake and have a few suggestions: 1. don’t frost the cake like the first picture ( that cake says “don’t eat me…I was made by some weird old lady” I mean come on whats with the weird blue, yellow center, and odd texture? 2. Don’t use the words “colour” and then use words like: “gobs” and four letter nasties in the same posting- That says “I’m trying to be a fancy pants” but doesn’t work. 3. Don’t get all worked up just because people keep e-mailing you the same questions over and over, just deal with it. I mean really, why would a person post something on the internet that they want everyone in the world to see and be all “I can’t stand all these questions!!!….some of them are the same!!!……what will I do?- I’m going crazy!!!”
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LOVED this cake, made it the fatty way for my daughters birthday. It was a huge hit and oh so delicious, there wasn’t a crumb left.
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Ok, so I finally got to make this cake for my daughters 11th birthday party yesterday. I did not make the WW version. I made a regular cake mix with the “fluffy white” frosting. It was SUCH a hit. I baked the cake after she went to sleep Saturday evening and decorated it before she got up Sunday morning so she had NO idea it was going to be rainboe colored inside until she cut into it. EVERYONE loved it! Thanks so much!
I also ended up with huge cakes because I doubled the recipe without using bigger pans. And the edges were burning and the cake was like erupting! I don’t think doubling the recipe was such a good idea! The cake however will hopefully turn out good and be a hit at my gay friends birthday party tonight!
If I were to make this cake with the ingredients on the back of the cake mix box (not the WW way) do I still need to double the recipe?
OMGZZZ<3 Like I totes loves cake. My name is Lee and I’m a seventeen year old male looking for some hottie to make this rainbow delight with me. Give me a call (xxx)xxxxxxx.
[edited because um, I'm just not comfortable with phone numbers in my comments. Sorry, Lee.]
I’ve made this cake before and it turned turned out really well. When i make the cake, it always turns out way too moist. any pointers? I’m not a cake expert so just wanted some few pointers.
thanks
(i dont use “moist” cake mixes either)
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This is amazing! i plan on making it for my friend’s birthday. just wondering though, for the putting diet soda in it bit, how does that work?
This cake tasted like shit.
Me and my friends were really excited about making this cake. That excitement did not sufficiently compensate for the shittyness of the final product. The first 3 bites were OK, but upon the fourth, my mouth was on FIRE! It burned like the fires of hell. From the substitution of sprite for all other natural cake ingredients to the use of pudding mix in the already packaged icing, my mouth was reeling from the disgustingness of your creation.
A side comment on the icing: the grittiness of the icing from a saturation of pudding mix caused pudding to form in my mouth. A horrible pudding that would never be approved by the FDA. I can still taste it. It lingers in my mouth with the longevity and viciousness of a sexually transmitted disease. Unfortunately there is no cure. It is the icing equivalent of herpes.
People should make these cakes and send them to terrorists. Actually, I changed my mind. This might in fact be arming the enemy as the cakes could be used against us.
If this cake were a person, it would be Osama Bin Laden.
Me and my friends were really excited about making this cake. That excitement did not sufficiently compensate for the shittyness of the final product. The first 3 bites were OK, but upon the fourth, my mouth was on FIRE! It burned like the fires of hell. From the substitution of sprite for all other natural cake ingredients to the use of pudding mix in the already packaged icing, my mouth was reeling from the disgustingness of your creation.
A side comment on the icing: the grittiness of the icing from a saturation of pudding mix caused pudding to form in my mouth. A horrible pudding that would never be approved by the FDA. I can still taste it. It lingers in my mouth with the longevity and viciousness of a sexually transmitted disease. Unfortunately there is no cure. It is the icing equivalent of herpes.
People should make these cakes and send them to terrorists. Actually, I changed my mind. This might in fact be arming the enemy as the cakes could be used against us.
If this cake were a person, it would be Osama Bin Laden.
I made this cake and I didn’t like it too much. It kinda tasted bad. Bad after taste.
I dunno, maybe it’s just me…
so since it seems that the soda and pudding make a bad taste, when i make this should i just not put soda in and instead of pudding just get already made frosting?
I enjoyed reading how you made the cake (love the humor). After reading the comments, I think I’ll try making it using your methods, only without the fat-free and diet stuff. Great job!
P.S. I wouldn’t take some of these negative comments too much too heart. some people are just assholes.
The cake looks cool but you are kind of a bitch
I somehow came across this searching for something for work today. Of course I immediately made a colorful cake when I got home (*rolls eyes at lack of self control*).
I didn’t use diet soda, but at least I did use applesauce instead of oil.
I made a lemon cake with lemon frosting. It’s delicious and I’m pretty much enthralled by the colors (I used paste food coloring).
I have a horrible feeling that ridiculously kitschy colored cakes are going to take over my baking life.
This is so beautiful! I couldn’t think of eating this.
Here’s a picture of another interesting, colorful cake! Best wishes!
http://www.robopug.com/Annies%20Photos/odd/poloroidcake.gif
This looks amazing. My girlfriend and I decided to make it for our 2-year anniversary, not too long after we move into our first home together! XD Our friends will be so impressed, thanks for the idea!
that looks so cool! i have made cakes before with the diet soda, and if you use the right mix it actually tastes like angel food cake. i think i’m gonna head over to the kitchen now, my sister has a baby shower coming up…
oh, and to Anonymous comment number 479: you would be too after getting some of the unnecessarily rude feedback being posted here.
Kudos on the rainbow cake, it’s awesome looking and i can’t wait to make one myself.
the cake came out amazing and we used the recipe on the box….and no soda….it looked amazing too but we used cream cheese frosting….
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My friend makes this cake at school all the time and I think it tastes pretty good and looks awesome as well. People are so insane about eating chemicals my god. These types of foods aren’t making kids fat – it is all caused by TV and video games. It is the parents’ fault if they can’t get their kids off the couch to play outside. A snack like this every once in a while isn’t going to hurt them! Live a little, people.
this is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome
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omg your amazing i made this cake and won a cake contest at my school ^^
that’s very, very beautifuuuuuuuul!
reeaaaaaally!
I love it.
I want make a cake that will be how that!:)
So, I decided I wanted to make my son one of these cakes for his birthday party, in a Mickey Mouse cake pan since that’s the party’s theme. But I wanted to do a test run before hand to see if it would work.
http://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m192/skinnyhuman/Rainbow%20Cakes/
There is the link to view my beautiful Dinosaur rainbow cake
It turned out amazingly well (the batter didn’t fill out the pan very well originally, but as it baked it filled out quite nicely) and tasted super moist and amazing to boot (since I didn’t take the diet route!) Thanks Omnomicon!
Too good to not be a lie.
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I’m thinking about doing this, but since I dont want to mess up and have to redo it, I’m just wondering: I see in one photo you have some sort of parchment on the bottom of the pans. Is that required? I make brownies and cookies and my sister makes cakes, and neither one of us has ever done that.This cake will be for a party in a few weeks, so I can’t afford to bake it the day before and then realize I needed the parchment, and I dont want to buy a ton of cake mix if I wont need it for backup.
I dont know if this is the right place to ask, but if so, thanks for any help!
I LOVED THIS CAKE
healthy??? i dont think so
delicious? depends your taste
look? cute, cool, great, pretty, awsome, etc etc etc
once in a while, why not?
thanks for sharing!
http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac59/mylilacwine/rainbow%20cake/P1011430.jpg
It was delicious. I used buttercream icing, though, and just a regular white cake recipe.
Carly, I just sprayed my cake tins liberally with Pam, and they came out (We did have to knock them a couple times, but there were no casualties).
I think this cake is perfect for those who think food is partly a visual art. I love it!
Oh~ This is awesome! I’m gonna make this cake with my mom and if she whines about calories I’ll remind her it’s a diet cake. =D
Anabella: A ton of diet things are unhealthy(diet soda). I think she just said it was diet cake, not healthy cake?
Can I use different types of chocolate to make this rainbow cake composed of different shades of brown?
marry me
Oooohhh! This will be so fun to make with my girlfriend ASAP!
This is now my wedding cake
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, my son wants to have a “hippy” themed party for his 16th birthday. This cake is PERFECT!!!!! I can’t wait to make it. Thanks for posting the recipe!!!!!
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Thank you for this AWESOME idea! I’m making it for my 2 year-old’s birthday cake tonight!!
The amount of chemicals probably doesn’t even amount to the amount you breathe in every day. Or in your deodorant, or makeup, etc.
Soda cake is delicious, colored or not!
Wow, thanks. I am going to use 4″ pot pie pans to bake cakes for the kids at my sons birthday party to decorate and this will be a huge bonus. I have a feeling that all the munchkins will love this.
Never heard of soda cake, but will give it a try.
Am definitely going to rainbow up my next regular cake though. And the “diet” frosting sounds good to me… I’m not the biggest fan of the in-the-can stuff, but I’m rather fond of pudding mix.
This looks amazing!!! I am going to try this very very soon!
I made this for my friends birthday… try spooning the colors a spoonful at a time to create beautiful rainbow zebra stripes!
check it here:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=34066204&l=6b542f7a7e&id=19500089
the first time i tried this it worked great! but the frosting was kinda bad…i making another cake right now! great idea of yours! its awsome!
I had a great time making this thanks for the recipe! I put some pics on my blog of the results. http://findfields.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-made-rainbow-cake.html
I made two layers, but the top layer broke, so we only used the bottom one and put broken top layer in clear wine glasses instead, which ended up being pretty.
Yipee! I finally, finally made this. LOVE. Your method/tutorial was so helpful. Thanks, Aleta!
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I need to try this rainbow trick. Very fancy-schmancy! And your FAQ addition kicks ass, too friggin’ funny!
Wow! I’ve been searching for the perfect cake for my little girl’s birthday – and that’s it! Beautiful!
finally tried this. i told my mom i was coming out to her again and she said it probably would’ve helped the first time hahaha.
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Love this cake idea…my aunt’s bday is coming up, she’s a lesbian and I really wanted a great Pride/Rainbow cake to make for her…Thanks!! Hope mine turns out!
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Thank you for this recipe with such a great explanation to go along with it!
I actually made this rainbow cake for my mom’s birthday and she absolutely loved it, so I’ll definitely be making more of them whenever I get the chance. Hell, I’ll even make one for my own birthday.
I can’t wait to go buy the supplies to make this!! What a fun cake!!
My husband’s 50th surprise party is Saturday & I’m going to make this cake and top it with a crumbled cookie graveyard scene.
As far as the nuts who disparage this beautiful cake because of it’s health hazards:
I’m sure there is some kind healthy, natural selection that will remove them from the mean/gene pool.
I made a rainbow cake similar to this for my fiance’s 24th birthday. We will be cutting into it tomorrow! I didn’t have a round pan but I used the food coloring idea and then just spread out each layer of color into the pan I did use. That way everyone who gets a slice of cake will have an entire rainbow on their plate. I frosted the cake with a vanilla and confetti sprinkle icing. It looks very awesome, I’ll try to get pics of it tomorrow to post a link on here! Thanks for sharing this!
I bookmarked this page when someone on a forum showed it. I’ve just made it for my son’s 6th birthday. Bugger all the nay-sayers – it’s a special treat and it’s not gonna do any harm as a one-off. Love your directions, and your photos. And thanks for the inspiration, I’m not much of a baker, but as soon as I saw this I knew I had to do it.
This is soooo gorgeous! I love it! I’m baking one like it now. It’s cooling now, but it was soooo much fun to make and it was actually surprisingly easy. I made the cake batter and icing by scratch though and the colors and batter blended beautifully!
But I was confused with the purple, it did not seem to turn the right color. It had this gray-ish tint to it.
All in all though its beautiful and thank you so much for posting this!
Okay. 3 friends and I made this cake and WOW, THIS IS DISGUSTING. Even for someone on a diet. The cake tasted like dense grossness with Elmers glue on top with added sugar. Do the rainbow-ing on a REGULAR recipe and make normal things. YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED. This is the WORST cake I have EVER HAD. TERRIBLE! Don’t do it! YOu WILL regret it! EVEN if you are on a diet and have not had sugar in MONTHS, THIS IS NOT WORTH IT! But it’s very, very pretty.
It is perfect to give to someone whom you do not like but who will be required to pretend they like it and ingest it in front of you. Perfect for Boss Appreciation day! It is like a bashful gay pride cake.
This cake looks wonderfully to-die-for!!! =) Visually, i’m full. I hope I can make this soon or have someone make it for me! =)
I made an orange and teal striped sheet cake using this recipe today for my friend’s birthday, can’t wait to cut into it tomorrow! It looks great, and the batter was really tasty, so I’m hoping the cake baked up all awesome-like!
Can’t wait to surprise my boyfriend in a week with a bright orange cake!
i made these into cupcakes (not the diet, im only 15
yay for being young and invincible!! jk XD) and they turned out PERFECT. when i was mixing the dye, i was worried because i could not find the gel coloring and it looked nothing like yours D: but when they baked they turned out beautifully! they are for my boyfriend’s sister’s birthday and i think she will love them 
THANK YOU!!!!!
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wonderful wonderful wonderful
I’ve enjoyed
I hope I can do
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i made this cake. but i made a four layered cake. for pics go here. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/photo.php?pid=3210840&id=796753573
I am going to use this recipe for my son’s Willy Wonka Birthday cake! Its going to be total surprise when we cut into the cake and the kids see all the colors! Yay!!! I’m so excited. I”l post pictures when its done!
I found this via someone via someone via someone, but finding it on a blog I read and then following the link THEY followed, and the link THAT person followed, and here I am finally at the source! Totally gorgeous, and also I read about 100 comments and had to stop because I was laughing so hard. Oooooooo, SCARY FOOD COLORINGS!!!! OOoooooo, SCARY DIET SODA!!!! This should perhaps be a Halloween cake? I’m totally making it, and I’m FEEDING IT TO MY FIVE CHILDREN AND ALL THEIR FRIENDS!!! The next generation will be mutants, MUTANTSSSSSSSSS!!!
Okay, I can’t stop, I just read another 50 comments or so. People are so HORRIFIED! and SHOCKED! and DISMAYED! that OMG, the horror, they DID NOT LIKE THE TASTE OF SOMETHING SOMEONE ELSE RECOMMENDS!!! and/or they did not APPROVE OF AN INGREDIENT!!! I mean, holy crap, this post has more negative comments than posts about war and/or genocide. And it is a post about a CAKE. An OPTIONAL cake. That NO ONE need make OR eat if they’d rather not. Oh, man. This is my first visit to your blog (well, second, since I came back to read more comments), but you have my full sympathy and support for the craptacular and unwarranted feedback you got.
Thank you so much for this recipe I haven’t tried it yet but, I’ve decided that even if it tastes bad. The FUN I had reading the comments will be worth the money and the effort!.
I could not be more entertained by the comments from people who posted negative remarks. And I would like to take the time to respond with a challenge. I would suggest that each of you who feels negatively about any aspect of this recipe should take the time to develop an alternative to whatever you find objectionable about this cake.
You could probably become rich and a lot happier! And perhaps, help the world become a lot healthier! Remember the artificial ingredients you find here were originally the result of the need to develop cheap food products to feed the masses. Remember, your alternatives must be affordable, able to travel long distances and tasty. SO… Please save the world from both bad food and your non-constructive criticisms and provide some real solutions!
OMG I seriously bow before you! You just made for one of the best weekend activities with my kid EVAR!!!
Thank you so much 
Your the best!
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So, trying this for the first time tonight. This best part by far has been mixing the colors! It did take a long time to bake … now I am just waiting for it to cool. Reading through the comments I see it will take awhile. Guess I shouldn’t have started this at midnight!!! Thanks for the recipe!! My mother and I started WW about two months ago and I was so excited to find a cake in a decent point range! Thanks!
Looking forward to seeing how this turns out!!
Regardless of the ingredients used, I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to post a thorough and visually detailed post. You did a nice job.
I Love this cake!! I already use the box cake soda idea, As I’m allergic to eggs. But this beautiful cake is one to make with the kids that i can enjoy as well. Already talked momma into making this for our soon to be 3 yr old son. Great idea. Two Thumbs Up!! and this coming from a 29 yr old mail
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I did this too a few times with another shaped cake, cuz we don’t have the american shapes here XD
I also found out that adults usually like colored cakes better when they still see it’s a regular cake.
As in, I once made a cake with half the dough colored purple and the other half uncolored.
And then I layered it: purple-normal-purple-normal-purple=normal.
So to people it kinda looked like a blueberry cake XD I should have put blueberries on top of it.
BUT they loved it, :3
(seriously people here in the Netherlands don’t like to eat blue or green cake)
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The rainbow cake is really beautiful. please I woud like to know the ingredents and the mixture from start to end.
thanks.
Have you ever done this in one pan, like a rectangle pan?
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I just made this cake and it’s amazing! Thank you so much for the recipe! It turned out beautifully and now I have a great dessert to make for parties and…Tuesdays…and Wednesdays…and…er…whenever. >.>
I think next time I set out to do this I’ll try it in cupcake form. Has anyone tried that? Any advice?
Here’s pictures and a video of the cake I made: http://neversarcastic.blogspot.com/2009/08/rainbow-cake.html
THIS IS THE GREATEST CAKE I’VE EVER SEEN
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I totally love the look of this cake and your reply’s to peoples emails gave me a really good laugh thanks for sharing!!
Thank you so much! I just started WW a few weeks ago and was doing an image search for “cake” to torture myself. Saw this pic and thought “if only I could make it low point” Perfect. Will make for my birthday in September.
Thank you!! I made this cake for my dad’s birthday and he loved it, as did everyone else. Pictures are on my blog!
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Hi Miss Aleta,
I just wanted to express my appreciation to you for posting your rainbow cake blog, I was so inspired that I went ahead and made a rainbow cake of my own. The occasion was perfect: A tie-dye themed baby shower! It was super fun to make and it turned out to be a huge hit at the party, so THANK YOU!!!
I posted some pics of the cake, check it out! http://www.tasharose.wordpress.com
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OMG Thank you sooo much for a fabulous party cake! i’m doing rainbow theme and this is stunning! and who gives a rats ass if it’s not ‘healthy’? it’s a cake for goodness sake people! since when were they meant to be good for you! so i can’t wait to enjoy! thanks again!
Thanks for the inspiration and the hard work that went into your instructions and terrific photography!
I made this cake tonight for my daughter’s birthday party! Can’t wait to cut into the cake and see the girls’ reaction!
wow! the cake looks excellent! the people who are complaining about how THEY didn’t make it right are buffoons because, honestly, don’t blame the person that 1st made it for something YOU did wrong. And it’s obvious to the people that don’t like it it’s your fault for making a DIET cake…… Thank-you for sharing the recipe, I’m hoping to make it for my birthday. Hopefully it’ll turn out excellent.
Thank you for the wonderful Ideal and the cake recipe (sans soda). I decided that i would make this cake for my neices ninth/ my daughters second birthday and instean of makeing a regular round cake (which i should have done) i made it in a sheet sized rectangulr baking pan and to also make it two layers!.LOTS OF WORK! well for me it was i guess because i wanted to make it perfect and im a sticlker for following directions to the tee when im using them. long story short.. i was up all nite baking for the bday princess bask…putting the cake together the next morning … some one has a bright ideal and both layers cracked wide open… after i frosted the bottom layer…tried to frost the tp layer in hopes of stopping the crackage … to no avail…i had a mini break down…refridgeration and 4 hrs later…SUCCESS!!! the cake was a absolute hit! its stopped craking in the fridge godmommy and i decorated the top and the girls n guests loved it ” oh its too pretty to eat” one woman said. but it was very moist and very yummy. we call it our EARTHQUAKE RAINBOW (BIRTHDAY) CAKE!
THANKS AGAIN FOR THE INSPIRATION!!!!
gracias por la receta!!!! muy buena !!!!
Thanks for the great idea and recipies! I didn’t realize that your cake/icing recipies were “diet” until I read your post more closely the day after we devoured our cake – I wouldn’t have guessed. I made one for my (adult) baby sister for her going away to do her masters party and it was a huge hit.
Hi there. I’m really excited to try this out. What are your recommendations for using a giant sheet cake? How many boxes of mix would you use?
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I really love this cake and asked my mum to make it for my birthday!! By the way i’m 13, not some weird 50 year old who still lives with her mum.
hey i think that is awesome i cant wait to try it ..i love baking cakes and stuff …
This Was Awsome! The Cake Came Out Wonderful! Nayye Jk I Didnt Make It Yet, But I Will (:
So many ways to make this visually spectacular cake!
I think it is a wonderful special occasion delight.
I’m dying to try it, I just can’t decide which ingredients to use.
i followed the rainbow cake directions EXACTLY…and my cake looked fine till i cut it, and it TOTALLY fell apart and now it looks SHITTY. i wouldn’t blame anyone who didn’t want to eat my shitty cake…it looks like a kindergartner made it!! i have pictures of my shitty cake if you’d like to email me back, i’ll send them to you…what went wrong? the picture of your sliced cake looks absolutley PERFECT! why doesn’t mine look like that? and it took almost two fucking hours to make my shitty cake! is that normal? how long did yours take? if in fact that IS your real cake…i think you photoshopped that shit…next time i think i’ll attempt to make rainbow cupcakes instead, that way i dont have to cut them..
This cake looks so good my girlfriends bday is on tuesday and i’m def making this for her !!!
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hey… im making this right now and its in the oven. totally cute and fun. could care less about people complain’ about food coloring and diet soda… whatever, its a cake. if you want healthy, eat some grapes. it looks fantastic. one thing ( and this is because im stupid here)… you mentioned a 12oz can of sprite, but pictured a 20 ounce bottle…. i just went to the store and bought the things in the picture. so of course it made way too much batter, etc….
i dont know or care how it turns out, im sure as hell will be eating it anyway….
thanks so much and the pictures are great, btw…. i just found your website last week and love it. please keep going……much love.
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Okay… I loved the cake and so did my 2 children! Just the way you said to do it…. lol! Also, I must say, in a sincerely non-A**hole way, that I love your attitude! I got a kick out of reading what you have written! You’re very straight forward, not a quality many people have left…
I DID THis cake yesterday,, man something went wrong it looked like a big mess haha it came apart , i think i had to let it cool a lot more before i took it out the pan…OH WELL..
I made this for my kids today using regular recipe white cake mix (eggs, oil, water) and it is delicious! I love this idea and you crack me up w/ the way you write.
I considered using some natural food coloring as red 40 kind of freaks me out but heck w/ it, it’s not like we’ll eat this everyday.
What a happy cake! I had enough to make 4 cupcakes, too.
WOOOOOW! Cool cake! When you pour the colored batter into the pans…do you spread it to the sides or does it just spread when you put it in the oven? Beautiful cake
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i love the cake and i am very excited to do this cake with my 4 year old grandaughter she loves rainbows
i think i will even do it for snack in her preschool
thank you for sharing
becky
maybe you should put a damn ingredients list and how long you should leave the fucking cake in the oven ASSMASTER
this recipe FUCKING SUCKS ASSHOLE
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABORTED
What an awesome idea, and I love the photography. Can’t wait to try this. And, um, Sonia up there? Time for meds, shugs. If someone called me “assmaster,” I think it’d probably turn me on.
Haha. Sonia/Sofia. Different name, same crazy-as-hell non-assmaster.
Omg! It looks sooo yummy o.o I’m going to save the recipe its that alright and try it some time. >>; Love the Q & A I can’t believe they freaked out about stuff like that…Anyways Thank you! Oh And Sofia…Its called a brain…or logic….Try using it sometime okay it really REALLY helps.
This is awesome, I love it. I’m thinking about doing orange and black for Halloween! Thanks for the great Idea!
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hey there,
this is neat! i bake rainbow cakes too and they are fantastic! i tried adding a box of jell-o in the recipe too and it turned out awesome!
Very cool looking cake, I am going to make this cake for my husbands birthday, but will be covering it with white fondant and decorating it will all different kinds of candy!!! p.s. LOVE the pic of your dirty dishes, you should have it printed on canvas..it would make great kitchen art!!
Thats the most awesome cake EVER, Im so doing that for my sister(s, I have two) birthday…and my mom…hahhah Thank you for the great idea!
The cake is very beautiful^_^<3
Thanks for this recipe! I searched “awesome cake recipe” and found your blog. Off to bake one now, my sister’s birthday is tomorrow.
hi just had to say i found your site while surfin the net looking for a funky cake to make for my friends birthday.she is def getting this cake,just gotta sort out what to decorate it with : /
thanks for putting it online.
nettie
OMG!! I just came across your page while looking at rainbow pics. Your cake is great!!! I can’t wait to bake it myself…I love the way you responded to silly comments too LoL “My cake burnt” hahaha
Keep posting 
I use to sell cakes so I know it would very much like doing a Marble cake! Great pics too !! sooo much color, I can make this for my friend bday coming up soon
Hey, my son’s 1st birthday is coming up soon and I plan on making this cake for him, but do you think making it with angel food cake would work as well?
A friend of mine is turning 15 tomorrow and I bought the ingredients for this cake earlier today.
Im so excited! His card come complete with unicorns and rainbows. I hope he has a big sense of humor like me!
I made this cake and loved it!
Thank you so much for bringing this into my life! haha
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The cake idea awesome. I think i’m going to do it frmy mother 40th birthday.
She needs something spastic in her life.
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Not only does this look yummy and fun, I laughed through the whole recipe. I enjoy your wit. Thank you for not taking life so seriously.
peace in the middle east.
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Fabulous cake. . . but it’s your FAQ answers that have laughing so hard I’m crying. FABULOUS. Bravo all around.
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Wow this looks amazing
I made this cake for a few friends and we LOVED it! It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be
I was inspired by this recipe nearly a year ago, and I am just now getting around to my attempt at making something similar… I’m going with cupcakes in Halloween colors.
Thanks for sharing this awesomeness!
Your rainbow cake looks really cool. I plan to try it out for my daughters birthday. However you made it doesn’t matter. What people don’t seem to realize is that you can use an idea and make it however you want to create your own great taste. Thats what these sites are made for to share ideas. If people don’t like it or don’t agree than simply move on to the next. Anyway, thank you for sharing it’s a fun a creative idea regardless of who came up with it first.
I think this is a great idea – as for the earlier comments re health hazards i say GET A LIFE – life is all about moderation and balance.. one little piece of cake aint gonna kill anyone.
can u really make this, or where can i buy the colorants?♥
You’re fucking hilarious. Also, thx, I’m making my own rainbow cake.
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I copied down the list of ingredients from the pic you had. That was a 20 oz bottle of Sprite. … I KNOW you said 12 oz in the text, but the pic was 20 oz. Anyway… when you make this cake with 20 oz of pop, it is really shitastic.
Maybe a new pic?
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You crack me up!!!!! I am so going to make this cake!!
Awesome cake!
This recipe just solved all my problems!
My best friends turns 21 next week and i thought hell who doesnt like getting cakes for their birthday. So im making a peace sign cake with the tye dye on the inside.
And i love how you are blunt and witty.
thanks for posting this!
OMG! Holy crap, you just made my day. now i no what i want for my birthday. Thanks, your my new cooking idol.
Hi im thinking about making this cake for my friends…. you just add soda, no eggs or oil or anything?
i love this caKe ..made it 4 m wife …fell in love!
P.S. send it to al ur friends….good 4 kids
OMG i love this ….sooooooooo cute 4 kids!!! <3
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All that is left is to add the artificial flavor to make it taste like Playdoe
What a hoot!!!! The vastness of idiocy in one blog. I can’t believe people have really asked such absurd questions! The blog has certainly been entertaining. I want to make it for my kid – without the artificial sweeteners or artificial colors. It’s a little too bright too. And, well he does like chocolate. Do you think I could make him one with chocolate cake mix, eggs oil, milk and no food color? Gee, I think I’ll try that. I’ll let you know how it turns out – probably just like the rainbow cake only brown and choc full of calories & fat. LOL
So hungry now.. can I have some?
this is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo totally awesome…hoothoot is my biff and we are gonna make this cake together along with gesundheits kuchen
this better work or else damn it!
i love this cake and i have no idea what you guys are talking about that this person is an assmaster. they took the time to write the recipe for you and all you did was yell at them. that is real low.
We made this for my daughter’s 7th b-day and it was a hit. I love love love this cake!!!!
We love the cake. It makes me happy
food colouring is good so jog on Anonymous.
I loved your answers to the silly complaints as much as I love the cake. Can’t wait to bake it for my kids. Awesome!
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woah!!! you totally know how to make a cake! i’ve never saw anything like it before…..now i’m gonna go beg my mom to make it!!!
PS. awesome job!!!!!!!!!!!!
woah!!! you really know how to make a cake! i’ve never saw anything like it before..it’s amazing!!…now i’m gonna go beg my mom to make it!!!
PS. awesome job!!!
you guys know nothing! this cake was made like,15 years ago!!! GOSH!!!!!
dear madam, you are a cake wizard.
this looks pretty cool but everyone know that if we try to make it, it wont turn out to look like that! nice try though.
The cake turned out beautifully
you are so funny, blessed with a great sense of humour
thank you
Finally! America has it’s own cuisine! It’s a ‘Disney mates with the Wizard of Oz humunculous Cuisine’ but it’s all yours guys! Bon Appetit!
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I don’t really care enough to be health conscious. As a matter of fact I’d prefer things I eat to be full-flavored and fat-full rather than all fat-free and tasteless. So…how could I achieve this? I don’t really care about artificial dyes either.
I have a question. When you bake the tye dye cake with two boxes of cake mix, do you need a taller round cake pan? I’m afraid if I use the cake pan I normally use for one box of cake mix, that the cake will overflow the cake pan. Any suggestions? Thanks so much.
I was wondering how to get the cake out of each pan without it falling apart? And is it better to wait until it is completely cool to take them out of the pans? I made this cake yesterday and it just completely crumbled. Too bad because it looked sooo pretty!
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I just made this cake and it was really awesome. Mine came out with some really neat designs. Be warned, if you use the real cake batter recipe like I did, you will get a little bit of a “mixing” instead of nice layers of color because of the difference in the weight of the batter and the way it rises, but it still looks really cool.
And do everyone who is like ewwwwww food coloringgggg why don’t you 1. Not read a recipe about a rainbow cake and 2. Definitely don’t post about rainbow cake
Didn’t your momma ever teach you if you don’t have anything good to say, stfu?
Saw this at 2:15 am, bought the stuff at Walmart at 2:30am and I am so excited to make this cake!!! Heck I dont even care if it tastes good or not, its colorful, so I will eat it anyway. LOL. I cant wait to try this out! ^.^
I can’t believe some of the comments being made to you.
The world is full of idiots. If you don’t like food colour, don’t make this. If your not on a diet, make as per instructions on cake box but assemble as per your instructions. One cake on top of the other is a layer cake…pretty standard stuff. You have real patience to actually warrent these comments with a reply; I salut you!
Oh, BTW, nice job!
That is one badass cake! Im gonna make it for my son’s 1st birthday in March. I wonder if it’s possible to do cupcakes like that as well? I’m gonna go experiment then! That’s a sweet ass job! Awesome pictures!
Would like to smash a cake into the face of those that accuse you of anything and insist on showing their lack of a vocabulary by cussing..whew..that being said, thanks for the recipre, pictures, amusing comments and a way to entertain my daughter on a winter day…yummmm..will visit again….:)
Lisa–sorry.
hehe. but you must admit.. badass does describe it pretty well. 
It just amazed me! Flourishing extravagance of a cake.
Great pics of a very well crafted rainbow cake! I’m going to try the technique on a vanilla recipe I have and hope my rainbow cupcakes turn out as well as yours.
hehe looks great and I love youre FAQ!
Does it make your poo multi coloured or just brown like when you mix all the colours together in art class?
I feel like a kid again!
I love the idea, I am sitting here racking my brain trying to figure out if I have time to do it before my family gets home!!! They love cake and this would be such an awesome surprise!!! Thanks so much for the idea. I think I’m going to use a butter cake (that’s what I always use and I dye them all the time) and I’ll dye the store bought frosting too
OK so I’m lazy but I know I like the flavors and I really think that diet is a four letter word so I stay away from it…. We drink soft drinks, eat red meat, use full fat dressings and lots of butter and salt and we are all healty. Not overweight, no health problems ie: HBP, Cholestrol etc. We enjoy life. Thanks again so much. My family will be enjoying this tonight!!!!!!!!!!!
this is awesome!
i’ll be making this to take to school on the last day of our finals to celebrate becoming a second semester senior!! (:
I just have to say, first of all, that I think it’s weird being comment #666. But what I really have to say is THIS RECIPE IS MADE OF AWESOME!! I know two little twin girls turning 5 next week who will LOVE it. Thank you for the step-by-step instructions. It looks amazing!
Oh my that is absolutly amazing! This is definately going to be the next baking project at our house.
I don’t even know how I found this in the first place, but the minute I saw your cake I knew I had a theme for my daughter’s first birthday. I made this cake the old fashion way with the eggs and oil, and it was amazing. It took me a long time to get the right color intensity and I was nervous that the cake would be tough, but it was one of the moistest cakes I have ever eaten. It was a HUGE hit at the party. Thanks for sharing such a great idea.
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TERRIFIC! I am having a tie dye party for my daughter at the end of the month and this is exactly the inspiration I needed for an awesome cake to go with the theme. THANK YOU!
<3 it looks delicious! I WILL TOTALLY MAKE IT. Thank you soo much for it
the coolest cake!
and thanks for the recipe!
i tried this and post some pics on flickr.
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So I’m thinking this is a GREAT idea…but maybe as cupcakes
oh my god that cake looks sooooo good ! im making that for my birthday ^_^ !
I can’t wait to make this cake today.
A few of members of the family are on weight watchers so this is fab. I am going to make it with my moms fav. colors for her birthday next week. To bad I didn’t find this a week ago, It would have been great for my Daughters 16th bday.
Hello there you genius! I am writing to tell you (and ask if it’s ok) that I just linked you on my blog page. It’s the first time I’ve ever linked anyone, and am not sure of the rules to linking. Do I ask first, do I link and tell you, do I just link………. So stressful!!!
We saw this post and started making this cake, gushing about your blog to anyone who would listen. Our family is now hooked on this cake and we all check in with your blog regularly for a smile and a new recipe.
Thanks for all the hard work, for the wonderful pictures and for being you. You’re wonderful. Thanks!
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Bah Humbug to all the anti-additives people! I live in the UK so can’t get hold of all the ingredients so will, as suggested use my own recipe, but as for the colourings – its once a year – I can cope with my daughter going “hyper” for an afternoon
She has been planning her 4th birthday Rainbow Party since about a month after her third birthday so she will love this to bits! Now all I have to do is work out how I can make a standing up rainbow to go on top (she’s too young to get the idea that its a rainbow cake if there isn’t one on the outside!)
Thanks for the inspiration
hmmm so im making this now, checked on it 20 minutes into cooking, pulld the tray out and the middle wiggled….like, the top part was cooking, but the inside was still wet batter ?? and i only have 5 more minutes its supposed to be in! am i not supposed to cook both cakes at once or something? thoughts, anyone?
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yummy yummy i am making it soon can’t wait to see how it goes
yummy yummy that’s all i can say that looks yummy
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thank you SO much for posting this cake! it’s beautiful and so much fun! i was inspired by the rainbow colors but, since we’re vegan, couldn’t comply with the recipe–instead, i doubled a cupcake recipe from ‘vegan cupcakes take over the world’ and added the coloring as directed. this cake rocks!!! blogged about it at http://ashleylmarshall.com/?p=107.
thanks again for the inspiration and don’t let the nasty comments get you down!
weird, just realized that the comment thing already tracked my blog post. huh. technology.
It’s wonderful but I don’t understand very well the english so can you give me the recipe in french ????
Thanks a lot
Sylvie
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My son made this cake right away for his wife’s birthday. Teal frosting w/h dark blue accents. She was like” oh nice ” untill we cut it then it was” OH WOW”!! Great cake,easy to make even for a young man. Thank You for sharing it with us. Oh yeah, we made it w/t ALL the fat & taste & it came out perfect. Wish I could post a picture. Will make this many times in the future. Stop being so mean to this lady, it’s only a cake, not selling top spy secrets, who cares where it came from!!! Open Wide & Chew! Now Swallow! YUM! YUM!
I really want to bake this cake but we dont have all those fancy ingredients here in The Sticks (The Cotswolds, UK) I am so jealous!!!!!!!! Maybe next time I visit the states I’ll stock up on baking products!! x THANKYOU for the pretty pics tho xxxxx
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OMG, I just “stumbled” upon this and it has inspired me to do some baking again! The cake looks so amazing! I think I will do it with the box directions because I’m not worried about my health..haha. If only I had something to make it for!
btw…I noticed many people said that the cake burned in the bottom on the pan and got stuck…
I was kind of a cake apprentice, and we always lined our cake pans with canola or veg oil/spray and laid a piece of waxed paper on top of that(cut it to fit the pan). I never had a problem with burned/stuck cakes after that. =) and the paper peels right off! (I think this is shown in the pictures.)
Also, if you are impatient…like I am haha, bake the cake at night, and cool it overnight so the frosting doesn’t melt on top of it…or my fav trick, putting it in the freezer for a bit!
Happy baking and thanks for sharing this!
how long exactly should i bake it on the oven?
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I think the cake is pretty awesome. I also love your FAQ, I cannot believe you had so many dopey questions and I can imagine it would be extremely frustrating.
I now need an excuse to make it… although trust me it will not be diet!! Hee hee.
i just made this cake and it turned out exactly like the picture. a little bit more work to mix the individual colors, but totally worth it. i added a cup of milk to the frosting recipe and it spreads a lot easier. if you chill it after it’s been frosted, it’s super good. thanks so much for posting the recipe- i’m making this for an olympics party we’re having at work and it’s bound to be a HUGE hit!!
TOO MANY COMMENTS!!! {love the cake
} GO CAKE! (^-^)
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I love this! And I’m surprised you still have comments open after all the “can’t believe you feed this crap to your kids” bullshit. Anyway, can’t wait to make it! I’ll blog about it too and link back here if I’m successful.
I Stumbled upon your website and it was probably the highlight of my day. I have a huge list of cakes I want to make and I pushed them all back to make this one. I made it for my friends and didn’t tell them … they were totally uninterested in the cake at first because it looked like a regular white cake, but as soon as I cut it I seriously heard people screaming in the back round … did I mention we are all in high school?
Hey im only 13 and im working on making the perfect cake and this will help thx
Wow, Thanks for doing a great job with photo’s and description. People are really lame if they can’t figure it out after all the time you spent on it. I can’t believe you spent time answering some basic cooking things that people should have been able to figure out themselves. As for the “stealing” accusation, really people? Heaven for bid someone take the time that you did and show off your awesome work. I don’t recall you taking credit for the idea, so what’s the big deal if you post something that you made in your own kitchen(you got mad skills in the kitchen)! Gee’s I will have to remember that the next time I make chocolate chip cookies and cite my references! So that is my rant, umm….you rock!!!!
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Is it possible I can get the ingredients in Indonesia,
Eww. I wouldn’t eat this if I were starving and there was no other food around for 100 miles. Plain old dirt would be more nutritious.
this care looks awesome!! i cant wait 2 try it 4 mi b-day!
Made the non-diet version and it is beautiful! Thanks for sharing! But I am wondering (like Meaghan comment 319) if anyone knows why my gel colors were so light? The batter and cake in the photos is so vibrant and though I used the entire tube of gel for each cup of batter, my colors were just pastel. (I used the small Wilton tubes.) Thanks, Judy
hi
i am willi
i am from german
i say wath of german:
Ich hab den Kuchen noch nicht ausprobiert ich finde aussehen tut er ganz schön komig aber ich lasse mich überraschen.
… not to be a dick or anything, but as nerdy as you are… which i love. LEARN TO SPELL the word COLOR. it’s not COLOUR. it’s like misspelling FAVORITE with FAVOURITE. just because some fancy idiot uses them doesn’t make them spelled right.
BingoBingo: So 95% of the world are “fancy idiots” then?
Also, just curious – why does WW consider soda to be healthier than real eggs and butter? Does the soda contribute anything to the cake process?
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I’m gonna use this for my mom’s birthday, minus the soda and diet-ness of it. She’ll love it
This is the 1st rainbow cake I’ve ever seen and it is flipping awesome! I’m going to be making rainbow cakes for every occasion, lol. I’m even going to make one and bring it in to work as well.
Thanks for posting this and have a great day.
I plan on making this. Do I need two boxes of Cake mix and pudding or can I actually only use one of each?
what is the difference in making it with or without soda
First let me say I think its a very pretty cake! Id have loved to make one for my kids years ago.. the only reason Im writing is I just had to tell you that if you think cutting out the fat will make you lose weight.. your wrong.. you need to cut out the sugar! not fat.. that is one of the biggest stupidest fallacies that has ever been told to people..do your homework online.. if you cut out fat.. then replace it with all that sugar.. what do you think happens to that sugar in your body? .. it turns into fat among other things.. it also raises your blood sugar which wreaks havoc on your body.. Im not going to preach anymore but look it up.. if you really want to lose weight.. eat a balanced sensible diet.. lots of veggys, fruit ( smaller amounts because they also have natural sugars) and meat.. cut out all white foods! and sugar.. and the only safe sweeteners are xylotol which is really good! or dam forgot the name of the other one but it has an aftertaste.. try xylotol.. its cheaper at places like super supplements or health food stores but most grocery stores carry it.. you can use it like sugar in recipes and it cools like sugar and tastes as good or better i think! and use whole wheat flour if you need flour.. I know. it wont taste the same but if you really want to lose weight and be healthy.. hats the only way to do it and BE HEalthy! just do some research on what sugar does to you.. you do know at one time it was outlawed as a drug? yep.. look it up!
All i want to say is that this is THE hottest cake ever! I am so going to try it, when I feel brave enough and figure out if they even have gel food coloring here in Cairo, which I am thinking NOT as I haven’t seen traditional liquid food coloring. Anyway thanks for posting and wish me luck.
My best friend made us this cake last year after she saw this blog. It was AWESOME! Thanks for the great food ideas
You rock 
I’m about to make this for a National Foreign Language dinner. I love the idea! It’s so colorful, and looks really delicious! I’m sure my friends are going to love this cake. Hope it turns out well ^_^ Thanks for the wonderful idea!
Okay… I made the cake, made sure to adequately grease and flour my pan, and followed the instructions from you and on the box. I doubled the recipe and used gel colors (I even got the neon color set so I could have orange and purple pre-mixed and ready to squirt). Since I was making the cake for my triplets’ 2nd birthday, but we had no power, I had to rush to my brother’s house up the road and make the cake in someone else’s kitchen, with no practice runs. It came out awesome, albeit nothing like what your cake looks like. Mine was tie-dyed. Very, very cool looking, but not what I was expecting. We didn’t get to serve the cake for the birthday party due to it not cooling off in time to serve it (sad), but we are still eating it.
I think, in the end, that I overmixed the batter, causing it to be much more smooth and liquidey, which is what made it swirl all together. I have a picture posted here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1039341&l=bc8ffcd00d&id=1443976161, and here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1033416&l=c3991ac1b5&id=1443976161
I thought maybe if anyone wanted to try to make their cake more psychadelic, they can follow my over-mixing mistake, LOL!
PS – Aleta, I think I love you. Please keep making fun of jerks that call you names, and people who give you unsolicited advice regarding sugar consumption, et al. Never mind the dye haters. Peace!!
these pics look grrrrrrrrr8!!
i really wanna try this once at leats!
thnx for sharing this
Hi. I was wondering whether you have to add eggs and oil because the instructions on the back of the Betty Crocker White cake mix box stated that an egg is required.
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welcome! Pictures of the cakes look wonderful, but I have a problem with understanding the preparation of … what products are needed and in what quantities … if someone could translate me into Polish, then I would be very grateful … my e-mail mika-stokrotka@wp.pl … I tried to explain the google translator, but came out with something totally incomprehensible that ….
Oh this looks delicious. I say bugger the diet and go full sugar full fat and devour. YUM!
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soooooo awesome making this bad boy for my birthday!! ..cos ill be alone and need to add a bit of colour to my day…
and to all those complaining about the food colouring and how ‘bad it is for u’etc. well dont make it!! if ur on a diet (firstly put the cake down and find a boring one to make) dont attack the poor cake its not like ur eating it everyday for breakfast anyways..
this cake is perfect for so many occasions. just to name a couple perfect occasions… i’m a flower child from the 60’s and 70’s. for my grandson, who has autism, it’s the perfect birthday cake. he’s coming home for spring break. i can hardly wait to make this!
I tried the cake it was nasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I will NEVER make that cake EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I MADE IT AGAIN IT TASTED LIKE LIKE LIKE POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH your growse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2
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this is the most beautiful cake of the world.. i like that
i want one… thank you for this
what sized pan and how many pans did you use?
This cake is awesome, and I will bake it one day. Mean photos, too. Awesome.
Very trippy.
I just stumbled upon your recipe. Perfection. I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and we’re in the middle of a semi-warm spell for once so I’ve been having uber Spring Fever the past few days. What a perfect way to celebrate! Thanks again for the share. Kudos!
Thank you SO much for this recipe. My boyfriend and I made a date out of this, and had such a great time making the rainbow cake. I will be posting photos on my blog if you’d like to check it out. Thorough instructions, and I love your photographs.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t artificial sweeteners more of a carcinogenic if heated?
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wow, that’s just too cool! I wish my parents were that creative when I was a kid
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I made this but in cup cake form. they looked cool. it wasn’t diet though it was just a basic fairy cake recipe then i made colourful icing. =]
Btw I’m 14 and from New Zealand XD
Thanks for sharing this recipe! And BTW…you are friggin’ hysterical! Thanks for the laughs as well
Thank you. How cute & Pretty of a cake.
I make all my cakes w/the diet soda & cake. Kids love it still. Nice treat.
Surprising them tonight w/the rainbow cake, looks like a “regular” cake I have already iced.
Can’t wait to surprise them!
I plan on making rainbow cupcakes for the Pre-K & Kindergarten classes for tomorrow (a li’l bit
more work..heck I may just make the regular cake instead).
Thanks for the idea! Sometimes the neatest things are the simplest to do!
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i tried making rainbow cupcakes this weekend, thanks to your lovely inspiration! mine were uber ugly, but i linked your page in my blog so everyone could see what it was actually supposed to look like
hope you don’t mind!
thanks for being awesome.
God, I can’t believe the audacity of some people. No one has any courtesy… Come ON people! Don’t like the diet cake/icing? Make a damn normal cake with some damn normal icing! Don’t like the chemicals that come with food coloring products? Don’t make this cake AT ALL! And anyway, it’s cake. CAKE of all things. Jesus Christ on a pony.
Anyway, best cake ever. I’ve been looking for a good recipe for a rainbow cake and this is just perfect. Very fun, and I think it’d work well in cupcake form. Nice clear instructions. I’ll have to try it very soon!
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omg now my school is going to make some omnom cake!!
ooooh man!
Yours came out so fabulous. My colors unfortunately were so much more pastel, before baking it looked like a Dr. Seuss book. I’m going to keep trying though. I love this!!!
Thanks for sharing!!
People…it’s a freakin cake!
Personally I LOVE it!
Rock on sistah for getting 757 comments on a CAKE!
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Over spring break we threw a suprise party for my best friend and we made this cake for him. It turned out great!
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Since I’m a poor destitute teenager and am going now where this spring break, mom is graciously letting me bake this *fantastic* cake this saturday. Way better than going to Cancun…
I’m gonna add rainbow sprinkles to mine….and skittles…it’s going to be rainbowtastic.
Thanks for making my spring break rainbowtastic by providing this loverly recipe
I apologise on behalf of the civilised people in the world for the blinkered,philistine pig ignorance of the posters on here that just come on to criticize your recipe. They can see what it is about, why should they make comments when it is obviously not the blog for them. They do it out of spite. Nice recipe, thanks for being bothered to do something.
This is the coolest thing i have seen in a long time. thank you so much for sharing.
That’s a lot of freakin’ comments. I just wanted to say thanks for making me laugh, your writing is wonderful. And the cake is all kinds of cool looking. I will keep the rainbow idea in mind for my son’s upcoming birthday.
Cheers!
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I used the basic rainbow-tastic idea of this cake to make my own cake recently for an Alice in Wonderland party. I made the cake using an old standby recipe, same for frosting. Most people didn’t really care about whether or not the cake tasted good when they saw the inside of the cake, though! It was a total showstopper at the party.
Question… when you double the recipie how do you split it up? Do you put a whole box into one pan?? I just made one and only used one box and it has risen up all the way split up into two pans. Just wondering how you made it work doubling the recipie. Is it because you made it diet perhaps….?
Okay, this cake has totally inspired me. Good friend’s birthday is coming up, and she’s sort of a hippie. She’ll love this.
This is very inspiring, if conditions permit, I would like to make cakes by myself.
Awsome display…..with due courtesy I am picking up one of these beautidul photographs to my lifology blog………Thanks for sharing the cake mixture!!!
i want that for my party so f-ing bad!it looks so cool!!!!
Just wondering, can sprite be substituted for Fresca?
This looks interesting and i have ti try it … but i got a question: Is there some other food that looks unusual that you can bring on this site? I should hope it is … because i wanna have some great foods when i have some friends coming over.
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very delicious.. thanks a lot..
hmmm i am felling hungr.. thank you so much.:)
i like it.. cool picss.. thankss … cakes cakes cakes..
very nice recipe.. regards
i want to eat sometin.. because it looks pretty:P
awsome cake but color is spelled C O L O R not colour Smartie
SWEETIE YOU HAVE DONE A WONDERFUL JOB AND DONT LISTEN TO THOSE BRAINLESS
MORONS IT JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU HOW EASY IT IS TO BE A JERK, IDIOT AND LOSER.
CAKE IS GORGEOUS!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING I APPRECIATE IT. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.
NICOLE
I think this cake is an amazing idea. It’s also very pretty in your pictures. However, when I attempted to make it, it completely FAILED. The cake stuck to the pan and pretty much fell apart. The icing was also waaaay too runny and just glopped over the sides. So, altogether, I don’t really know how you got those results, but it still tasted good!
LOOKS BAD ASS!!! Will attempt to make, but I dunno if it’ll look this good! Wish you made house calls, lol.
I made this for Easter dinner tomorrow. I made the colors pastel instead of bright because of the holiday. I also put a layer of frosting and coconut in the middle. I’m so excited to cut into it to see what it looks like. I found that the frosting was much easier to work with after I popped it in the microwave for 15 seconds. I made it green and put peeps on top. So cute! Thanks for the idea
Dude….. This cake is freakin awesome!!! Me and My freind are gonna make it today! It’ll be freakin AWESOME!!!!!!
This is probably the sexiest cake I’ve ever seen! Is it too terribly different to make it one layered, though? I don’t have two of the same size pan, and I pretty much just want to make a large cake for a marching band party this weekend. Would there be any differences in dying or pouring the colors if I were to make it a single layer (albeit, a taller layer)?
This was awsome I bet this was the hit on the list. Yummmmmmmm….
I just made this cake with my friend. It was so much fun :] We didn’t let it cool long enough so it got crumbly but it still tasted so good! We gave it out to friends and family. We are definitely making this more over the summer and perfecting it with your amazing directions :] Thanks for posting this! I love it and so did everyone who tried it. I even spread your recipe to a few family members. I gave them your website. Hope you don’t mind!! :]
<3 Erika
Awesome pictures, i’m going to try to bake this cake this afternoon and i cannot wait
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Looks very delicious but i think i am going to use regular cake ingredients.
Can’t wait to show my baby
This cake looks great
Yum, i want to bake it!!!!!!!!!
I cannot wait
Yummm, Yumm
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i’m sitting in tv production class right this moment …and we have to do a project so i googled something, and this is what came up!
so guess what, i’m going to bake it =)))))
Yummm too my tumm tummm lol
Why can’t you use food coloring for this cake?
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Going to attempt to make this for my son’s birthday this weekend. I’m going to make the full cake recipe though..won’t use the soda. Hope it turns out as great as yours
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OH..on a side note…if you mix the pudding mix with 1 cup (per box used) of skim milk before adding the whipped topping the frosting won’t be as difficult to spread. My mom has been making that frosting for years!
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So this is going to sound pretty lame, but I’ve been a huge fan of this recipe for a while, and I LOVE the picture of the dirty bowls and spoons stacked together. I love it so much that I want to frame it as art and hang it on my wall in my kitchen. Do you have a site that you do prints through?
i cant belive the amount of snobby people annoyed about the food colouring. It is cake it’s ment to be fun not super healty! this looks amazing i am going to make it tomorrow, hopefully it turns out as well as yours did
wowww…. i love it!
I loved this recipe! I did it the basic way without the soda but the idea to use diet soda is great! I made cupcakes instead for a bridal party, the bride is into the 80’s and all things bright! Thank you so much for the idea!!
LOL’s at all the silly people on here talking trash about this CAKE!!! The poster of this is not saying MAKE MY CAKE OR ELSE….she is giving us an alternative to anordinarly boring white cake. If you dont like whats posted then why comment? I mean really grow up and DONT POST your remarks. Get over the fact that its awesome in color and it tastes just like a regular cake!
I think its an awesome idea and am having my kids I nanny for help make it for their moms 38th birthday! We are a healthy household and every once in a while its OK to splurge and have fun with trying new things. Think back to when you were a kid…you played in dirt and ate things you shouldnt of…why go all postal on your kids now and freak out if they want to enjoy something cool like a cake! I’m sure we all have had cake at least once in our lives unless you live under a rock! GET OVER IT! If you dont like it then move on!
do you need to use the soda? or can you just go by the box?
my rainbow cake is in the oven now baking,
and i am soo excited for it!
we used the regular dyes and the colors are just as bright.
and for all of you complaining about feeding your kids these chemicals,
well you don’t have to. i’d feed it to mine anyday.
Thank you so much for this idea! I’m going to have a tie dye cake for my wedding now!! =D
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You fucking retard, you spelled frosting wrong, what makes you think it would be spelled frostinging with 2 ing? Stupid people of the world haven’t you ever heard of SPELL CHECK?!?!?!?
This is great!! I’m making it for my girlfriend’s birthday (she doesn’t know).
I’ve been looking for more ways to poison her with chemicals and aspartame anyway…
Well, although some commenting appear to not appreciate negative comments, I’m making mine anyway. This cake is absolutely disgusting. The ingredients are all chemicals, not real food. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to feed this to someone they cared about.
It’s been interesting to read through the posts.
Someone posted, “I would suggest that each of you who feels negatively about any aspect of this recipe should take the time to develop an alternative to whatever you find objectionable about this cake.”
Here’s what I could do to make it more healthy. I could use natural food colorings, ones that aren’t made from petroleum derivatives, which wouldn’t be quite as bright and are very expensive, but I’m sure would look pretty in a pastel kind of way. I could make homemade vanilla cake, use made from scratch pudding without artificials, and I’m not sure if real whipped cream would work? As for the soda, I’d use regular sprite or 7 up. Like another poster said, it would cost around 40$ and be nice for a very special occasion.
Those of us posting about the unhealthiness of the cake aren’t saying eating cake is bad. I like cake and make it and enjoy it. It is the fake food ingredients that are bad. And for some people, once in awhile is too much. Lots of people have physical and behavioral reactions to fake food.
Thank you so much! what an amazing idea, I just baked it and I’m just waiting on it to cool. Can’t wait to try this out with other color combos
“Those of us posting about the unhealthiness of the cake aren’t saying eating cake is bad. I like cake and make it and enjoy it. It is the fake food ingredients that are bad. And for some people, once in awhile is too much. Lots of people have physical and behavioral reactions to fake food.”
Its a brightly coloured cake. I don’t think people look at it and go oh well its clearly 4 of my 5 a day. coming to preach about how bad food colourings are is arbitrary and a bit patronizing.
This is delicious you guys should try it….
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you rock… not quite sure why all of these jerks are posting lame negative comments. the cake is great! thanks so much!
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I love this cake!! If you all had read the materials used, she said you can use ANY WHITE CAKE RECIPE….even a gross, healthy, organic and chem. free one!!
Don’t hate on someone’s creativity just because you didn’t come up with the idea yourself!!
I make a wonderful white cake with real butter and tons of white sugar and my 6 year-old son LOVES it!! Who in this world makes cake for their children every day??? UNLESS someone has an allergy…..do you even know how much food coloring one would have to eat to get some sort of reactions???? Come on, people!! Use the thing in you head…..it’s called a brain!!!!
Thank you for your explanation. There really useful information.
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Hi & thanks for sharing such a cool idea! My only question (that I didn’t see above) was this. If I’m taking 1 cupful of batter & placing it on top of the next and so on, will the batter spread out to the edges before I place it in the oven? Or should I help it spread out? Thanks so much!
This is an incredible ideaa! I loved it, and I actually want to use it. But I have a few questions.. How can I make it non-fat ?? and without the soda type baking..? I’m from Mexico and I dont think I could find that color gel you mentioned… although I will look for it, but an advide for coloring woul be great..!
Thanks again and congratulations!! you are so creative !!
This is sooooooo much fun! I can’t wait to make it! Thanks for sharing!
You are a riot ! I thoroughly enjoyed the pictures and comments ! Cake looks awesome we are making it for my nephews birthday
Freaking genius ! 
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i was just wondering what if u just wanna do one layer should u cut all the measurements in half? and if your not on a diet and just making it for fun u dont have to buy the fat free or use the soda or do you ?
bump these haters.. this is awesome.. im going to make one next week for my godsons 2nd birthday! you are awesome..
if your allergic or dont like diet soda or food coloring. understand this is a WEBSITE and no one cares. =)
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Ok I have to say that the cake looks very cool and yummy, i have to make for my love ones. the ilustration was great, i totally loved the pictures…but the best were your FAQ (lol) they were extremely funny, I could’t stop laughing.
thanks 4 taking the time to do it and share it
Hiya, was thinking of making this cake soon. Can you only get those gel food colourings in the US? x
Oh I just adore this cake and plan to make it for my son’s Yo Gabba Gabba 2nd birthday this weekend (he has an egg allergy so this is PERFECT!). Do you have any idea how many boxes of mix I should use for a sheet cake sized pan? I will not be double layering it…. just need to know how many to make a single layer?? Thanks!
Do you think there is anyway I could make this into cupcakes by just putting them in a muffin sheet rather than a cake pan?
I made this cake for my English class and it turned out wonderfully. I was worried when the light brown crust on the cake prevented me from seeing anything on the inside and I just had to cut a slice for myself before I took it to class. It was breathtakingly beautiful. I got so many oohs and ahhs from the class. Thank you so much for this!
WOW!!! Phycadelic!! Peace signs, strobe lights and other stuff nice acctually my moms birthday is tomorrow!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not good enough with the internet to post my pictures anywhere where other people can see them, but I have never baked a cake in my life, and using your instructions, made THE. MOST. AWESOME. CAKE. EVER for my daughter’s second birthday (I didn’t do the diet version, but just used a white cake recipe online). Thank you so much. This was the biggest hit ever. If you email me, I can email you two great shots I have of the cake, if you’re interested at all, but you’re probably not since you are already a master of this coolass cake. The reason I made it in the first place was b/c your description about the mother’s bday and coming out party all in one was so funny.
I guess I am comment # 838…..It was May 3rd 2010 when I made my daughter’s first Pastel Rainbow cake using this tutorial.. It worked and I did it with French vanilla cake boxes and pastel rainbow colors with varying amounts not big to little but first a little pink, alot of light orange, alittle yellow, a little light green and alot of light aqua blue and a little glob of pastel violet. It was so fun with a rollercoaster of rainbow colors.The kids and the Adults squealed with wonder at the color. Truly the funnest cake I ever made and ate!
Oh I was comment #839
P.s Make it big with 2 cake boxes in a 10×13 round and cut it in half and stand it as an arch of a rainbow using the other half as 2 1/4 set ups for cloudsbuild a rice krispie block under the arch . Cover it in in rainbow stripes of marshmallow fondant and use marshmallows to build clouds ubnderneath pasting with frosting…great B-day Surprise
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The comments posted about this cake are sooo funny. I am laughing out loud with tears nearly streaming down my face. Thanks for making my afternoon! I love the cake. It seems like the gel colorings work much better than traditional food coloring. I plan to make a rainbow cake for my daughters 3rd birthday. Gasp! Yes, I’ll be feeding this to children. Like someone else said, “there are far easier ways to kill your children”. Keep up the good work!!
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I LOVE this cake!!! Super cool!!! And yeah these geeks are effin’ jerks who need to get the sticks outta their asses. Yeah, sticks, that’s right bitches I said it. People who are that uptight and bitchy likely aren’t gettin’ the lovin’ so maybe that’s what their problem is lol. Anywho, this cake is awesome and I love it and I’m gonna make it tooooday. Thanks for posting it…even though I’m like a year late in reading it.
yummmm ! this looks so good, & thanks for posting. it’s a big help. i’m only 13 but i’m guna get mum to help me make one hahaha.
what is your problem lady you have one big attitude, this cake is crap.
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The rainbow cake is really colorful and thanks for the creator! Jjust can’t wait to make one and Keep up the good work!
Hi.. thanks for the recipe and beautiful pictures… I have a small question. Did you add blue and yellow colors to the frosting for the first cake ? If yes, are those the same as what we use for the cake ?
Thanks a lot,
Satvika.
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Thank you for this great post! I was looking for a fun cake to do and found your blog. I tried this cake (but without the WW methode) as soon as I got home from work that day and it was a hit on my first try! My daughter loves it and now I need to make it for all her friends b-day, but that’s ok, it was sooooo easy to do. thank you! Celine (canada)
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hi!
i found your rainbow cake via stumbleupon a few weeks ago and made it for my friends birthday using silver spoon food colouring and it came out good but not great
then i used these wilton food colouring pots that i found in hobbycraft (£2.25 each but they’ll last forever) and got the same colours as you did in your cake!! this cake is ALWAYS a hit with everyone and it disappeared before i got a chance to taste it (BOTH TIMES) but i just want to say thank you for sharing such an awesome recipe.
This was passed on to me and I have decided to astonish the guests at my wedding with this cake. I will be doing a non diet version because cake needs ALL the calories to be delicicious lol. I will be making a low fat version though for my birthday, I am trying to lose weight before hand.
Thanks for the ideas.
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you guys need a life .
Like omgg lol xD
and once you people get a life call me up and suck my dick bitchesss hehehehe.Lets meet up at the GAy parade heh.
perfect recipes
I like it ,,,
good work … thanks honey
My daughter has a very rare autosomal disease that severely restricts her diet. I have been searching for a way to make her a cake for her 8th birthday that is safe for her to eat (and not all out nasty too). We have had some bad outcomes to my efforts (door stop city). I am definitely interested in your recipe, and she loves whipped cream! Can’t wait to see what else you post
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THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!
I was looking for a unique cake to make my daughter and found this and I can’t wait to try it. I even showed her the pictures (she is 4) and her jaw dropped and she was so excited.
As for the chemicals, crap, blah blah blah. I feed myself and my kids healthy all the time. I’m beyond proud that my kids ask for fruit & veggies, even if we do have junk food in the house (which is rare). My kids only drink pop on special occasions (birthdays and the like). They drink water 95% of the time (juice in the morning). We eat organic, locally grown foods as much as possible. But you know what, you have to have fun every now and then. Moderation in everything.
My fiance and I are making a multi tiered wedding cake using this. The outside will be (regrettably) stereotypical as per familys wants of something normal at our handfasting. Thank you for giving us an idea of how to quirk it and make it more us!
FANTASTICO, AS FOTOS SÃO LINDAS, PENA QUE NÃO TEMOS ESSES PRODUTOS AQUI NO BRASIL!!
BJSS
i tried this, the oven was broke so i cooked it on the grill, still tasted amazing. it didnt rise very much cuz i used scrach cake mix
Okay.
1. You’re freakin hilarious.
2. That cake looks awesome and I’m gonna make it.
3. I like the pictures you took throughout the process. verrry nice.
,, i just have one question ,, why didn’t u use eggs or oil or water ? i mean is it possible to bake a cake with out these them ? ,, and when u said that i can use any white cake recipe ,, do u mean normal recipe with eggs and oil ,,etc ?
thnx in advanced ,,
,, i just have one question ,, why didn’t u use eggs or oil or water ? i mean is it possible to bake a cake with out these them ? ,, and when u said that i can use any white cake recipe ,, do u mean normal recipe with eggs and oil ,,etc ?
thnx in advanced ,,
Wow, this was fantastic! I’m SO going to be making this for something – I’ll invent a reason if I have to!
omg ur eating gay ppl if u eat this cake!
You Rock!!! Thank you sooooo much. My friends think I am the amazing cake goddess now thanks to your easy instructions and pictures. Um, scratch that, Now they are going to expect me to make amazing baked goods on demand. Hmmmm. I am not so sure I like you any more. Probably not your fault I am a doormat who can’t say no, but somehow I feel you are responsible in some way. Sigh.
You crack me up! Don’t know why anyone would have problems with this…you’ve laid it out beautifully! My rainbow cakes are cooling as we speak….I’m having a hard time not ripping them in half to see the pretty colors inside!
This is effing awesome! Just sayin!
I was trying to figure out what cake to get my 2 year old and now i know! she is going to freak! Thx!
P.S.your hilarious
I like Turtles…
In Soviet Russia cake bakes you.
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omg tht rainbow cake is so awesome!!! coolio sooo doing that 4 my b-day party!!!
I stumbled upon your rainbow cake recipe – not sure what I liked more – reading the recipe (you’re so f-in’ funny) or seeing the finished product ! Thanks for a good laugh.
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I’m getting ready to make two of these cakes right now… one for my boyfriend and one for my dad. I’m super excited to see how they turn out and since neither of my guys are dieters, I’m going to prepare the batter according to the box instructions. For my own special touch, I’m going to ice them with my own homemade buttercream… and lots of it! Thanks for the easy to follow instructions… wish me luck!
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Thats kewl but i did tht b4 but i bet mine waas a lot btr YA BEAT THT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never heard of putting soda in cake… interesting. I think this cake is really cool to look at and would make the ultimate kids birthday party cake! Frosting it with plain white is a good idea as it already has so many layering colors. It would also add an element of surprise to cut into what looks like a rather plain cake to find the rainbow. One small downside to this recipe is that it dirties a fair amount of dishes, so make sure you have the time- good rainy day project!
Love this!! By far the coolest thing I can bake at home! Thanks!
To DEBBIE #812 – A) Seriously, I hope you don’t have children because I’m sure you don’t let them breath the air (golly gee it is polluted) or play on a slide (wouldn’t want them touching plastic) or ride in a car (you know…all those interior dyes degassing!). B) NEWSFLASH – ever heard of entropy…it’s happening. LIVE A LITTLE and let your children live a little instead of having an all natural stick up your….(insert orifice here).
Now on to the good stuff: This cake was the hit of the Birthday Party this weekend! Everyone LOVED LOVED LOVED it! I used fondant to cover the top and told the girls I used a special “Potion” to bake the cake. And no – I didn’t make the healthy version…bring on the sugary goodness!
Many thanks OM NOM NOM!!!
Yummy diet rainbow cakes
This looks like great fun. I’ll make it with a real cake, and homemade frosting, lots of butter in both, and I bet it will be a hit with family and, possibly, customers.
I love the product “Baker’s Joy,” which helps cakes release from the pan with no tears and no tears! (You can buy it, usually, in the baking section of the supermarket — look where they have oils, Pam spray, and crisco.) Also lining the bottom of the cake pans with parchment circles cut to fit (you can buy them pre-cut, too) will get them out of the pan whole. Let the cake layers cool for 10 minutes or so in the pan, then turn them out onto racks to finish cooling. Let them cool COMPLETELY before moving or icing, and you won’t have those tearing problems. As for the rest, yes, mix carefully but not too much, follow directions, don’t over-bake or under-bake (internal temp between 200 and 210, if you have a probe instant-read thermometer).
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Oh my gosh! What a beautiful cake.
I NEED to make this cake…yes…yes…but a vegan version hehe
Can’t wait to try it out now that my daughter is into baking. Looks so easy and fun.
Hey, I love this cake…and to inform someone that commented about the colors scream chemicals…seriously..if you’re baking a boxed cake mix you just poured more chemicals in a bowl than my brain can handle at once so get over it…everything you eat that is prepackaged or in a box in the store that is not homemade has chemicals in it…did you know that even boxed white cake has red dye # 5? I think that’s right because a boy I knew was allergic to it and his mom had to make home made cakes for him instead of box cakes. I may use this for my wedding cake…:-) It’s adorable and my favorite color is rainbow
LMBO!!! I loved reading your FAQ section. It was hilarious. I love it when people finally just tell it like it is. So few people have real sarcasm and I love it when I find someone who does. My daughter and I are very sarcastic people and many times ticked people off with it who don’t understand it. I’m definately going to make this, my daughter loves tye dye. I’m be sure to email you lots of dumb questions (just to keep you going). LOL
Ok, to the negative nelly’s on here. Didn’t your mama teach you to keep your mouth shut if you couldn’t say something nice?!!!!!!!!!
Yeha, backed it, and I totally did something wrong, with the frosting and the cake! My cake crumbled which was probably due to my oven being completely uncoordinated, and the frosting was frozen when i tried to mix it… like an idiot! Oh well, trial and error right? Maybe i’ll try it again one day, but it’s extremely labour intensive! The cleaning alone… gosh! Well anyways it tastes great!!! Thank you for the recipe! (it looks like a mess… but a very beautiful mess! Maybe next time i wont mess up so bad
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so i just finished baking this cake! or cakes i should say. im making a tripple layer version. the whole time ive been praying that they turn out! because apparently you cant get gel food coloring here in canada! HAHAH!! or atleast i cannot find it! So i mixed regular food coloring and corn syrup to make it gelly, so that the liquid food coloring doesnt reck the soda mixture, and it worked great! and im so glad that i used sprite because by using that it kills the taste of any food coloring, thats why you dont notice the food coloring!! HAHA im sooo stoked to put colorful icing on it tomorrow, and real flowers to add some umpphhh!!! thanks for the great recipe!
This cake is amazing! My best friend since grade school came from NY to Maine for a visit. My birthday is in August but one day I sent her this & said I want it for my birthday. Well after telling me I’m a bossy spoiled brat for not using my manners and asking the proper way, she supriesed me & made me a cake! It was so vibrant with the beautiful rainbow colors! We took pictures & put them on facebook and on my phones screensaver. I just love rainbows & this was the best!
Thanks for helping make a birthday great!
Juls
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coolest cake ever awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!sweet
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Wow, this looks amazing! The photos are gorgeous and the article is well written and funny. I’m going to try this regardless of my shitty culinary skills.
I loved this cake!!! I have just started baking cakes and decorating them…my family are my quinea pigs!!!..As for the food coloring, think about it..if it was really that bad, would it be allowed to be sold with out warnings????? Seriously, my mother has used food coloring in cakes since she was a child and she is now 79!!!! Healtly as can be…I thank the creater of this site..well done…
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I made the cake like normal and bought my own icing and it turned out absolutely fantastic!!! Everyone at my office loved it! Thanks so much for this amazing recipe
I know I’m incredibly late to the game, here, but I just wanted to let you know that I made cupcakes using this recipe today, and they were fantastic. Granted, I didn’t make any frosting for them, and I used regular Sprite instead of Sprite Zero, but I doubt it really makes as much of a difference as some of the haters seem to feel it does. Muchos gracias for sharing this fun, fantabulous idea!
This is amazing. I love making cakes, especially for the familly, for every class party and for my teachers on special holidays! I never thought i would find something so helpful amidst the usual junk i find online!
What size of pan do you use? Maybe I’m missing it, it is after midnight…. but I don’t see it.
My cake mix says to use two 9 inch round pans for one mix…… but it looks like you used to mixes and two 9 inch pans? Help?
I LOVE THIS CAKE! I am making this for my friends 14th birthday this Sunday… she is gonna LOVE it! I know she will =) thanks!
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Okay, will people seriously stop hating on artificial coloring? I’m sure that everyone that said something has never had McDonalds, only eats organic foods (and if you have that kind of money, more power to you), cringes at the words ‘fried’, ‘hormones’, anything starting with ‘Mc’ and the word ‘whopper’, right? No? Seriously, find another cause to keep people from dying. Plane crashes kill more people per year than artificial colors… Aren’t there far more important things in life?
Also, I love the idea for this cake. The colors are so bright, and I LOVE COLORS!!! I wanna make it into cupcakes in cones.
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I was never expecting this a rainbow cakes? glamorous one…very interesting to this how does it taste…haha wish i can try it. Yummy
I have made this cake a million times since you posted it! It’s fabulous and I <3 it! Thank you soooo much!
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this is SOOO cool! It looks like so idk colorful!!!!
planning to do a 3-d cake of my hubby’s vw bus for his bday, I do believe this cake has to go inside…
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I made this today, and it is so awesome! Loved it!
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Dude. I think I’m going to have to make this for my father-in-law who just informed me that his cancer is in remission. You know, “after the storm”?
I’ll probably just stick to the usual recipe but thanks so much for the ideas about color-layering! Can’t wait to try (and I am SO not a baker)!
my mom is making it on my 8TH B-DAY party
Hey! Just a quick note! If you find this cake is burning or not cooking enough, use the baker’s rule “BAKE TO TIME NOT TEMPERATURE”.
FOR BURNING: if your box instructions told you 350F for 25 minutes, I’d make that more like 325-30F for 25 minutes
FOR UNDERDONE: put back in oven and increase oven temp by 10-ish and leave for no more than 5 minutes – longer than that and you risk burning the bottom too much
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Woah what a Chef D’oeuvre!
Mine didn’t looked as nice but tasted yummy! Keep up the good work!
Actually I was surprised how “easy” to do it was – thanks to your recipe!
Awesome cake! I definitely will be trying this very soon for the kiddies can’t wait to add my on twist to it.
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I see you referenced a rainbow cheesecake. When I clicked the link, it said it couldn’t pull it up. Could you please send me the recipe for that cake. I want to make it for my birthday!
I made the rainbow cake (only with 4 colors cause I ran out of gel) for my nieces 8th birthday. She loved it. I am not making another one (with only 3 colors, cause that is what my child wants) for my son’s 6th birthday. I love this idea.
Oops, that was suppose to be now instead of not.
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I’m so glad i found this, I recently found out i am diabetic, and have been looking for simple cake/cupcake recipes to use. i have been making rainbow cakes for my gay best friend’s birthday the past three years. i was afraid i’d never get to eat my awesome baked creations again. thanks a bunch!!!
@ Anonymous-coloured dough = chemicals: FUCK YOU! Everything contains chemicals ffs AIR is a combination of a huge variety of chemicals! WATER is a CHEMICAL! I hate you!
I am 13, and I just made this cake by myself. I love this recipe! It’s so simple and my family loved the cake it was delish and really pretty! Thanks(:
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I love this cake it is beautiful! I would love to do it for my daughters second birthday cake BUT my lovely husband is panicking over the colours….spoil sport but maybe I will make a smaller version and eat it on my own lol
but really beautiful photography. A friend of mine got me onto your blog and I am now hooked!
Diet soda and food coloring are not nuclear waste. People are so paranoid about foods these days that they don’t even care if science validates their chicken-little mentality. Everything has “chemicals.” Some are natural, some are synthetic. Natural does not equal healthy. There are many naturally occurring substances that are toxic and can kill or harm you. Synthetic does not mean unhealthy or toxic. There are numerous synthetic substances that have no observable detriment to the human body.
Pull your brain out of your asshole and start using it.
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Diet Soda = Sucralose = Cancer Growth.
Sweet n’ Low = Mercury.
Aspartame + Above 90 Degrees Fahrenheit = Formaldehyde.
Moral: Artificial Sweeteners = Not Too Happy Life/ Death.
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I found this while looking for cake ideas and had to make it right away. Unfortunately I made it just before the rest of my family left on a trip and not wanting it to dry up at the house I took into work to share. This was several months ago and I still get people making comments and requests for it. I made a regular cake but instead of using food coloring I bought six different flavors/colors of Jello. The colors came out just as wonderful (okay, maybe I added a few drops of food color too). The flavors were not overwhelming and while some did not care for the slight variation of flavor in each color (myself included) others loved it. I have always wanted to make something at a potluck that was so good others would want the recipe. Thanks for making that little dream come true!!!
WAY TO TELL ME HOW TO MAKE A FREAKING RAINBOW CAKE! NOT!
Thanks! I used the same idea for a red, white, blue cake.
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