Rainbow Cake - Weight Watcher's Style

I found yet another project on Pinterest.

Source: littleherocapes.com via Amanda on Pinterest

Pretty sweet, huh?

I decided to make my own rainbow cake.  

It's pretty simple, especially if you do the weight watcher's technique of using diet soda with a cake mix.  I did, because I'm entirely too lazy to make a cake from scratch and make it rainbow-fabulous...and avoiding using 5 gallons of vegetable oil makes me feel better about myself. 

So I bought two white cake mixes, two cans of diet Sprite (or Sprite Zero, whatever), and a box of gel coloring.  Now pay close attention to the instructions I'm about to share - they're very complex. 

I opened the boxes.  I dumped them in a giant bowl.  I opened the sodas.  I dumped them in a giant bowl.  I mixed.  

Still with me? 

I separated the cake batter evenly into six smaller bowls.  I added food coloring.  I mixed. 

 Then I mixed some more.

Hopefully, if you've gotten this far into this baking expedition, you have already realized you're going to need cake pans.  Two of them. 

Review your ROYGBIV.  Decide if you're feeling more I or V today when you're mixing your colors.  

To make your final masterpiece extra psychedelic, you'll want to make the two cake layers opposite of each other.  In one cake pan, start with red - in the other start with purple (or indigo or violet...be crazy).  

 Get it?

 Then keep going.  Don't worry about spreading the batter out in the pan.  The world of physics and cake batter surface tension science will take care of that.  Drop the cake batter in the center of the pan and add colors directly on top.  Plop, plop, plop.

 You maybe already figured out to use 2/3 of your base color (red or purple) on the bottom, then gradually add a little smaller portion of each color as you go.  In one cake pan you'll have 2/3 of your red cake batter on the bottom...in the other pan you'll have the remaining 1/3 of your red cake batter on the top.  Confused?  It's not tough.

Pop those colorful pans of tastiness in the oven - bake according to the cake mix instructions (go dig the boxes out of the garbage...don't worry, I did that too).

Ta-dah!

 We have rainbow cakes!

The original recipe uses the weight watcher's pudding/cool whip frosting.  Gross.  I tried to make it, and it was an epic fail.  Blech.

So we made a quick trip to the grocery store for frosting in a can.  We're Betty Crockers like that.

 PS...rainbow cake = super hard to photograph.

Rainbow cake = especially super hard to photograph when you stick it on the ugliest dishes you own. 

Funny story:  I had a guy from a local hospital call for a med list on one of our patients they had admitted.  I gave him the list, and as we finished up our phone call he said "Are you Amanda, Will's wife Amanda?"  "Why yes, yes I am, " I answered.  "I had some of your colorful cake the other day.  It was awesome!  Keep 'em coming!"

Dessert gets you the "in" with the spouse's coworkers, this I have learned.