Delicious and Groovy Tie-Dye Cake Recipe

I am one of those people that will come up with any excuse to bake something. I love sweets and baking of all kinds and I especially love trying out new recipes. So when the boyfriend was coming for his first ever visit to the United States, I thought that was as good a time as any to bake a cake. Not just any cake thought ... a tie-dye cake!

It is a pretty straight forward recipe and can be done using and white cake box mix, if you want to go the simpler route (which I did in this case). The only disclaimer I have is that you will have lots of dishes to wash after this is done.

Ingredients:

White cake batter

Food coloring

Lots of bowls and spoons

9 inch circle cake pans (2-3)

Icing of your choice

First, follow whatever recipe you have chosen, whether it be from scratch or from a box, for white cake.

Now, comes the fun part. Separate the batter evenly into 6 different bowls. This is where you will add the food coloring: (This is just a guideline you can mix however you feel looks best)

 Red - 15 drops of red food coloring

 Orange - 2 drops of red and 9 drops of yellow

 Yellow - 10 drops of yellow food coloring

 Green - 5 drops of yellow and 2 drops of blue

 Blue - 10 drops of blue food coloring

 Purple- 5 drops of red and 6 drops of blue

Next step is to start pouring the batter into the pans (make sure you spray them with no stick ahead of time). Some people like to now separate each color into two bowls, because they are perfectionists. You don't need to do that. Going in rainbow order, pour half of the red batter into the first pan, give it a few seconds to let it spread. Next half of the orange directly on top of the red, again giving it a few seconds to spread. Continue in that order until you get to purple. Now in the second pan, do the same but in reverse order starting with purple, blue, green and so on. Don't try and manipulate the batter just give it time to spread on its own. 

  * I used a measuring cup to divide each color in half. I think pouring half the batter directly from the bowl would be easier

Bake at 350 degrees for about 25-30 minutes or you pass the toothpick test.

Finally layer the cakes and ice them with your choice of icing. I chose chocolate funfetti icing, because I believe funfetti makes everything better.

Don't let the amount of dirty dishes overwhelm you (I like to follow the whoever did the baking doesn't do the dishes philosophy). This cake will be a hit no matter what occasion you bake it for. 

  

Have you ever tried a more difficult recipe like this? Were you successful?