f you have a thing about food coloring, look away. Do not go any further because were about to enter the land of color.
Lots of color.
I had fun with this cake.
The last time I made a Rainbow Cake, it was for my daughter’s 8th grade graduation almost 2 years ago. It was time to make it again, this time for St. Patrick’s Day. I used the wedding cake recipe that I used last time but I used the whole recipe (last time I cut it in half) which gave me one. big. cake. It starts with a couple of white cake mixes but you add flour, sugar, egg whites, sour cream and the likes. Mine is flavored with almond and vanilla extract but it’s easy to switch up the flavor to what ever your heart desires.It produces a nice sturdy cake that stacks nicely. And with 6 layers, it had to stack nicely!
I used about 2 cups of batter for each layer this time but the last two layers got a little bit short changed. They only got about 1 1/2 cups batter because I didn’t measure real good. But once I trimmed up the other layers, and stacked them up, you really couldn’t tell the difference. In fact, I thought it was funny when someone asked me how I got my layers so even. Ha! If they only knew!
I piped a layer of frosting around each layer and filled it with a candy bar filling.
This is a fantastic filling. It’s basically a pastry cream and you can change it out with your favorite candy bar.
I wanted a white filling, so I went with Toblerone White Chocolate with Honey and Almond Nougat.
What a great choice that turned out to be.
That stuff was KILLER!
I wanted the bright layers to be a surprise, so I frosted it with a simple white frosting. I got the recommendation to use Martha Stewart’s Fluffy Vanilla Frosting recipe from Patsy. She made some cupcakes with the frosting and said it was a hit with her kids. In fact, they said it tasted like ice cream.
Enough said, I had my frosting recipe.
It was a delicious butter cream and so easy to whip up. But I had to slap on the frosting pretty quickly before work so I didn’t get a chance to do crumb coat. Might look a little sloppy but at least I showed up with cake! And I didn’t have time to make more frosting for a pretty boarder or decorating.
So I went simple. I’ve heard that simple is better!
I adorned it with a green ribbon and sprig of mint.
A peek inside!
A Rainbow Cake.
Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, a birthday party, or just a Spring day!
A cake that is sure to make you smile!
We all did! 
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Enjoy!
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Alex, my five year old, is really into rainbows right now. He’d absolutely love a piece of this! It turned out absolutely beautiful, shorted layers and all.
It is so beautiful! How did everyone like the frosting? It’s now my go-to frosting after the kids loved it so much!
I’m sure everyone at works was so impressed. Such a tall, gorgeous, fun cake!
So much fun…..
it turned out beautifully!
Wow! Amazing cake…very tedious, but delicious! I wish I had as much partience as you to make this phenomenal cake!
Love the rainbow cake! I have always wanted to make one….I need to get on it!
Wow this is so cool! I found your site through the blog hop, and am now following!
OMG this is a masterpiece. I am so impressed. I love toblerone as well, can;t get enough of it.
This s the best rainbow cake I’ve seen. Love how tall it is and how bright the colors are. Fabulous, Dahling.
Interesting!! Beside the good ingredients, I think color also can be one of the important fact.
I’ve been attracted with rainbow cake and gotha find one since I can’t make it myself.. hahha..
Looks wonderful Megan! Bright, tall and just beautiful!!
I like the land of color
That is beautiful! I don’t have enough ambition to make such a tall cake, but I admire you, and love looking at this! What a great idea.
It’s just gorgeous with all the colorful layers, awesome!
This is beautiful!! I loved the picture where you had all the cakes laying out, and then seeing them put together was just AMAZING!! It looks so delicious!!
That is so impressive! I can only imagine the decoration if you’d had the time! And I LOVE rainbows.
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Rainbow cakes are always so beautiful!!
I’ll have to look out for the Toblerone
What a fun cake!
I don’t think you have to be a kid to like this cake, very cool!
It’s so pretty!
Oh my gosh, your cake has rendered me speechless. I absolutely love it!!! You did a fantastic job on this. I wish I could get my cake layers as even as yours.
Oh this beauty makes me smile, Megan. So pretty, so fun, so TALL, and so colorful. This would make any birthday lad or lass, wee or otherwise, feel pretty darned special!
Beautiful!! LOVE all that height!
Awesome cake! I’m a little icing-cake-challenged (gotta wait until it cools!) but this is worth a try!
Gorgeous! I love the colors. Next time I need a cake and icing recipe, I’m using these recipes!
You are just too much fun! This is great!!
Thanks for linking this one in the For Your Sweet Tooth linky at the end of the Mom-Friendly Recipes post. I meant to ask you about including it in the post itself, but I got it confused with someone else that I had not heard back from! I loved this one and thought it was perfect, too, so I’m glad you came back to link it there.
What an unusual cake. I’ve never seen anything like it. I know some kids would just go crazy for this. Looks like it would be perfect for a circus themed birthday party!
I’ve had this on my mind ever since you first posted it a few years ago. Just wanted to let you know it will make it’s appearance in a few weeks when my oldest graduates from HIGH SCHOOL! Can you believe it?!?! She loves rainbow anything, so I know your cake will be perfect!
Wow wow wow this is amazing! No worries about the crumb coat, I couldn’t tell
Also, just wondering how much food colouring you had to put in for the colour to stay after you baked it?
I put a couple good squirts in it till I got a bright shade that suit my fancy. I wasn’t shy with the food coloring!
STUNNING cake!! the colors are so vibrant..which brand of food coloring did you use if you don’t mind sharing? haha
Hi there, I want to make one of these for my daughter’s first birthday next week and am debating what icing to use. So did this combination taste good? Not too sickly? Do you think using only buttercream’d be too rich? I don’t want to make something that looks amazing but people don’t finish!
i looooooooved this cake ! OMFG ! my daughter loved it along with my whole family !