Rainbow Cake!

A while ago, I found a neat idea via StumbleUpon -- Rainbow cake!  It's a fun, easy, and pretty way to make a cake.  I cheated and used a Betty Crocker mix for this, but the results were beautiful.

So after mixing up the batter of some white cake, I divided it into 6 bowls.  I grabbed some food coloring gel from the grocery store, and made red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple batter.  Then I took two cake pans, and poured half of each bowl into each pan.  Pan 1: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.  Pan 2: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.

When it was done baking per instructions on the back of the box, I frosted with some "fun-fetti" frosting (because, let's face it, we're all little kids at heart).

At a later attempt to make the cake, I attempted to "swirl" the colors together for a tie-dye look.  It didn't work out as well as I had hoped -- instead the batter turned kind of grey.  Still tasted fine, but I didn't proudly display that cake all over my facebook wall!