Rainbow (Bright) cake

We have a friend who loves tie dye, and someone suggested that we make a tie dye cake for her birthday. I never actually did that before so I had to do a little research. In case you were wondering there are 4 ways to make a "tie dye" cake. You can:

1) Blend several different colors of fondant together.

(That had no wow factor for me)

2) You can pipe buttercream onto the cake in a tie dye effect and than flatten it out with wax paper

(Also did nothing for me)

3) You can hand paint or airbrush on the tie dye pattern

(We don't have the patience or equipement to do that)



So we settled on the 4th option - dying the cake batter itself.

We've dyed cake mix before, but not like this...

 I found this awesome recipe on How to make a rainbow cake. P.S. if you are going to do this, make sure you get the good gel dye from your local art store. The liquid food dye from the grocery store won't turn out as vivid.This is also the first time we made a cake with diet soda. I couldn't tell the difference and if it cuts back on the calories and fat, hey, I'm all for it! The only thing we noticed was that the cake was a little more sticky than normal, but that also could have been from the gel dye. But it's pretty cool to cut into a seemingly normal cake and get a whole rainbow of colors out. Even I thought and WE made it.

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