Rainbow CAKE?!

Say whaaa? You heard me.

Today is my best friend's birthday. This pretty much means that something rainbow needs to happen and it needs to happen fast. I saw this cake on Whisk Kid's blog, to say I underestimated the intricacy would be an understatement in and of itself. You can find the recipe (and accurate instructions on how to make the buttercream) here.

I started at 8:00 at night and only had my phone laying around, lackluster pictures to follow.

FIRST! I whipped up the batter, which contained the first 2 sticks of butter (there's 8 in the whole shebang.)

SECOND! I separated the batter into six different bowls (Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. No one actually likes indigo, anyway) and dyed them with gel food coloring. I wish they had been more vibrant, but at the same time I know food coloring sometime has a flavor and I definitely didn't want that.

THIRD! After baking each layer for 15 minutes, I wrapped each mini cake in Saran Wrap and popped it in the fridge. I only have two 9-inch cake pans, so it took me give-or-take an hour to bake all six cakes. Only the yellow layer broke, wee!

FOURTH! I made the buttercream. There are no pictures of this process because, OH JEEBUS, it took forever. For my first homemade frosting, I suppose it was good but it wasn't as smooth as I would have liked it to have been. Everyone said it tasted good, so oh well!

FIFTH?! Stacking and spreading the frosting. As you can see, my frosting wasn't very smooth. I started with purple on the bottom and worked my way up. I also pieced the yellow cake baffck together. I love that you can see the inspiration in the background. Obviously, mine was the questionable cousin.

SIXTH!! Completed the frosting and decorated the cake. Birthday girl REALLY wanted a cake shaped like breasts, alas I don't own a breast shaped pan and I didn't really want to store a boob shaped cake in my parent's refrigerator. AWKWARD.

NOM! Surprise rainbow! If you happen to be wondering why the cake has been cut into but the candles have yet to be lit, my girlfriend wanted an early afternoon cake snack. :P