How To Make An Incredible Rainbow Cake

Want to impress your party guests with a cake that’s not only delicious but spectacularly colorful? Jenn with Cookies Cupcakes and Cardio shows how to make a Rainbow cake.

Using butter cream, vanilla cake batter and gel paste coloring, she whips up this multi-layered cake that everyone is sure to enjoy.

Items used in this rainbow cake recipe:

Jenn uses her recipe for Vanilla Cake Batter

This recipe makes 4 cups of batter.
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (270 grams)
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/3 cups granulated sugar (265 grams)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter (120 grams)
1 cup milk (1%, 2% or skim) (0.237 liters)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
Bake at 350 F for 30-35 minutes

She also uses her recipe for Icing/Frosting:

Simple Vanilla Buttercream Recipe
½ cup butter (120g)
3 cups icing sugar (300g)
2 teaspoons vanilla (10mL)
4 tablespoons milk (60mL) OR LESS

Jenn provided an update about her video noting:

I have been getting a lot of questions regarding exactly how much cake batter and buttercream that should be used for this rainbow cake recipe. If you want a cake as large as the one that I made, you will need 1.5 amounts of the batter recipe linked below and at LEAST double the amount of the buttercream. If you are using a box mix, I would use two boxes (mixed according to the package) and only use about 1.5 amounts of the batter that is made. Hope that helps you all out!

If you enjoyed this recipe for Rainbow Cake you’ll love this one for Zebra Cake.

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