See how to make a rainbow layer cake perfect for Pride Month celebrations.
By Hanna Howard, TeenVogue
Which means among the parades, festivals, and other celebrations of the
LGBTQ community, all-rainbow-everything is taking over (maybe the
Unicorn trend was just lead-up to pride?). Among the rainbow walls, Instagram stickers, and Pride-worthy clothing choices, though, you absolutely have to make some space for rainbow food. From ice cream, to Skittles,
a lot of people and brands are getting in on the technicolor action.
But if you want to do it yourself — maybe for your own Pride party this
month — we can help. Read on to find out how to make (and eat) your very
own rainbow cake, perfect for Pride.
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What You Need:
- White cake mix or recipe for white cake (we like this one from Epicurious)
- Gel food coloring
- White frosting (store bought or homemade work equally as well)
- Sprinkles of your choosing
- Rainbow candy (we used Skittles)
How to:
Make
cake according to mix or recipe, adding in food color of your choice
for each layer of cake (we went with purple, green, and pink)
Level cakes and use a cake ring to cut cakes to desired size — and to show off the colorful layers
Mix
desired food color into frosting for between layers. We chose to mix
blue frosting for between the purple and green layers and yellow
frosting for between the pink and green layers.
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Using a piping bag
or Ziploc bag with the corner snipped off, pipe frosting around the
first layer of cake to outline. Then fill the outline with frosting,
smoothing with an offset spatula.
Place second layer of cake on top of first layer, pressing gently (but firmly) to adhere.
Repeat with next color of frosting and top layer of cake.
Cover top layer of cake with last forsting color.
Decorate with sprinkles and rainbow candies as you please.
