Maybe it was the concurrent Top Chef marathon, but the birthday cake turned out pretty well last night. Only problem was trying to get them out of the pans. Why is there not a technologically advanced way to do this yet? I won't lie, the top layer has some fault lines.I will hopefully have a beautiful slice to take a photo of and post after the party tomorrow. Until then, here's all the prep pics. No recipe really required-- I used a box mix (Pillsbury Moist Deluxe butter yellow because it was on sale for 99 cents). Separated them into bowls and added food coloring. That was the best part because it was just like mixing colors on a palette, but not so difficult since I was only going straight primary/secondary. So more like finger paint, really. Oiled and floured two 8 inch round pans. Put one scoop after the other in the ROY G BIV order (only used red, orange, green, blue and purple because again, no one cares about indigo and yellow is kinda stupid when the cake itself is yellow). 
Reverse order in the other pan. Baked 34 minutes at 350 (after preheating which the Boy was very adamant on that taking at least twenty minutes).
Reverse order in the other pan. Baked 34 minutes at 350 (after preheating which the Boy was very adamant on that taking at least twenty minutes). For the cream cheese icing I used the ratios in our old school Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. 1 pkg cream cheese to 1/2 stick butter, 2 tsp. vanilla, then slowly add in 2 cups powdered sugar. Made the icing yellow (though the iPhone doesn't do the color justice) to make up for neglecting it in the rainbow cake. Now we just pray it doesn't meet some horrible fate between now and the party tomorrow. My added stress for wanting to get it out the way in case another unholy baking disaster befell me,
and I had to resort to buying a replacement cake. So it's not gorgeous or very tall, but when the only thing you tweak is just putting flavorless food coloring in it, you really can't go wrong. Well, whenever I have to bake anything, actually, it's astounding what all can go wrong. But this time it didn't. I just hope it got all whirly inside and looks cool despite it's somewhat Lilliputian proportions.
and I had to resort to buying a replacement cake. So it's not gorgeous or very tall, but when the only thing you tweak is just putting flavorless food coloring in it, you really can't go wrong. Well, whenever I have to bake anything, actually, it's astounding what all can go wrong. But this time it didn't. I just hope it got all whirly inside and looks cool despite it's somewhat Lilliputian proportions. Oh and we saw Bobby Flay lose a fish taco "takedown" because he grilled his mahi mahi. Thinking about making some of the fish beer-battered to be more legitimately Baja...
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