Luckily for me, I had read a post on one of my favorite blogs about a rainbow cake almost a year ago. The cake looked like it would be so much fun to have as a birthday cake, but as Teigue just had his birthday, the cake would have to wait for another time. Like for a certain someone's 4th birthday party. So we got to work making our favorite, just as good as Duncan Hines, birthday cake recipe.
Once again my little man was a champ in the baking department. No shells, almost perfect aim with getting the sugar and flour in the mixing bowl, and he looks really cute in his little apron. He has done this enough times now that he even knows that the butter and sugar have to go in the bowl first and get mixed. So proud of him.
After the cake batter was finished it was time to add the colors. I wanted to get powder coloring because I knew it would take a lot of liquid food coloring to make bold enough colors. I couldn't find them locally and didn't really care enough to order them online, so the liquid would have to do. We added about 20 or so drops per bowl...maybe more since Mr. Fox was in charge of the colors and counted 3 drops as 1...
We mixed each color in its own little bowl and then dropped them into our waiting, butter and floured, brand new baking pan. We put our lovingly prepared rainbow cake into the oven and waited....
Now this is not the first time that we have made this particular recipe, we used the same cake for Brady's birthday cake with fantastic results. The cake was moist and delicious and came from our baking pans with no trouble at all. Today we did not have the same luck. As I opened the oven door, I found a cake that was puffed up in the center...OK, I thought, no big deal. I can just trim it down. I let it cool in the pan for the necessary 10 minutes and then tried to flip the cake over and get it out of the pan. That is when Part 1 of the disaster struck.
The cake would not come out of the pan. I cut along the edges, pressed on the pan...nothing. Finally after about 5 minutes of me trying, the cake finally relented. That is when Part 2 happened... part of the bottom of the cake was stuck to my new pan. To top that off, as I was getting it onto the cooling rack, the cake began to split and crack. Nooooo!!!!! Thankfully only a bit of the cake cracked, so I figured I could repair it somehow. That is when the final and most painful blow to our little cake occurred, Jayno.
The cake would not come out of the pan. I cut along the edges, pressed on the pan...nothing. Finally after about 5 minutes of me trying, the cake finally relented. That is when Part 2 happened... part of the bottom of the cake was stuck to my new pan. To top that off, as I was getting it onto the cooling rack, the cake began to split and crack. Nooooo!!!!! Thankfully only a bit of the cake cracked, so I figured I could repair it somehow. That is when the final and most painful blow to our little cake occurred, Jayno.
My little lady decided to take the time that I was away from the cake looking up how to repair it as an opening to get a taste of our work..and took a huge rainbow chunk out of the side. We are now having the cake tomorrow, and the ones that just came out of the oven will be served Sunday.
You may wonder: Why did this one fail while the other was so successful? Why, my new pan, of course. While the tag said that this non stick beauty was a 9x13, it was in fact actually a 8x12 and was too small. That will teach me to never again buy a pan at a discount store. Oh well, there's nothing wrong with having too much cake I guess!
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