It's Rainbow Cake and I Helped!

Addison and I are always watching Max and Ruby make cakes. It always seems to be someones birthday on that show. I thought it would be fun to make a cake of our own. Since it was just me and Addison, I couldn't really take a picture of me wearing my apron that matches Addison's. My brother Sean, Sister-in-law Heather and nephew Aidan gave Addison and I matching aprons for Christmas. We wear them all the time but, no one is ever home to capture the two of us in them together so, you only get to see Addison in hers.

I have been wanting to make this cake since I had seen it months ago on the internet. We made a rainbow cake! Addison was such a great helper. She Poured the cake mix in the bowl, cracked the eggs, added water, added oil, and stirred to the best of her ability. Then I divided the batter into 6 different bowls. Each bowl ended up with about 1 and 3/4 cups of batter each. Then Addi mixed some food coloring into each bowl to get my rainbow colors. We used the gel food colors rather than the liquid drops. When each color was mixed, we place batter into 6 separate round 9 inch pans. I baked the cakes in a 350 degree oven for about 12 minutes. After all the cake layers had cooled about ten mins or so, we placed the bottom layer (purple) onto our cake plate. Added a thin layer of frosting. Next, we placed our blue cake layer on top of the frosting. We continued in this manner until we had added all cake layers.
Lastly, we iced the entire cake and added the skittles around the edge and made the rainbow with them. We even made marshmellow clouds. It was a very fun and colorful project. I had a great time and so did Addison. When Addison saw the finished product she was definately wowed! She said," rainbow cake I got to eat it." It reminded me so much of Michelle on Full House. Addison tried to take a bite of the cake before I even cut it. She totally wanted to do the whole 1st birthday cake dive. She was delighted to see the colors inside the cake when we cut into to it. What a fun cake to make. I love the colors. It just makes you feel happy to look at it. It makes you even more happy to eat it. Even the mess was beatuiful!