Retro Tie-dye Cake
I made this colorful cake for a recent family birthday.
Retro Tie-dye Cake Tips
This is more of a flexible cake idea than a recipe...here is what I used for this cake:
The outside of the cake is colorful, but I really love the inside, too!
It was fun to make all those beautiful colors! I mixed up a white boxed cake mix, divided the batter into three small bowls, and stirred in three bright food colors (I used Wilton gel colors--purple, red, and yellow in this cake). Then, I divided the batter into two prepared pans and swirled it gently with a butter knife.
The cake got baked as usual, cooled, and then I froze the layers. {Because I wanted 3 layers I repeated this process with another cake mix and different colors.} I always try to make the cake for birthday cakes ahead of time. Frozen cake layers frost easily and making them ahead of time cuts down the prep-work for the actual busy day.
On the birthday I mixed up the frosting and set it aside. I pulled the cakes out of the freezer, trimmed the rounded tops off, and put the trimmings back into the freezer to save for another day. Then, I filled and frosted the three layers with white frosting.
I divided the fondant and colored it with 5 or 6 different colors and kneaded it until smooth. I combined small amounts of different colors of fondant and rolled them together to get the random colors. I used a large flower shaped cookie cutter to cut out shapes from the flattened fondant. These got placed on top of the frosted cake.
I got my kids to help me roll small marble-sized fondant balls from the colorful scraps of fondant. These edged the bottom of the cake.
It was a very Happy Birthday!
I love these colorful candle flames!
Retro Tie-dye Cake Tips
This is more of a flexible cake idea than a recipe...here is what I used for this cake:
- 3 layers of baked colorful cake {I made 8" rounds}
- Frosting to fill and frost the cake--I used this White Frosting recipe
- Fondant colored several bright colors {you can buy prepared fondant or make Marshmallow Fondant--I used about half a batch of that recipe}
The outside of the cake is colorful, but I really love the inside, too!
It was fun to make all those beautiful colors! I mixed up a white boxed cake mix, divided the batter into three small bowls, and stirred in three bright food colors (I used Wilton gel colors--purple, red, and yellow in this cake). Then, I divided the batter into two prepared pans and swirled it gently with a butter knife.
The cake got baked as usual, cooled, and then I froze the layers. {Because I wanted 3 layers I repeated this process with another cake mix and different colors.} I always try to make the cake for birthday cakes ahead of time. Frozen cake layers frost easily and making them ahead of time cuts down the prep-work for the actual busy day.
On the birthday I mixed up the frosting and set it aside. I pulled the cakes out of the freezer, trimmed the rounded tops off, and put the trimmings back into the freezer to save for another day. Then, I filled and frosted the three layers with white frosting.
I divided the fondant and colored it with 5 or 6 different colors and kneaded it until smooth. I combined small amounts of different colors of fondant and rolled them together to get the random colors. I used a large flower shaped cookie cutter to cut out shapes from the flattened fondant. These got placed on top of the frosted cake.
I got my kids to help me roll small marble-sized fondant balls from the colorful scraps of fondant. These edged the bottom of the cake.
It was a very Happy Birthday!
I love these colorful candle flames!
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