What are the ingredients of the American girl rainbow cake?

Answer 1

It was in the American Girl Magazine last year, I believe April/May edition. It is a 4 layer cake colored with different flavors of jello and made with a white cake mix, frosted with light blue frosting and decorated with white frosting clouds. The layers are lined up like a rainbow (no purple there is some unknown problem with the purple jello) and are very pretty when you cut into the cake. I made it last year for my daughter's birthday and it has been requested again. I am actually going to do a variation today with food coloring instead of the Jello and make my own white frosting again as I don't care for the jarred. I've midsplaced the actual recipe. It is super simple, the biggest problem being the need for four 9 inch cake pans or you have to cook the batter in shifts. Worth the time to borrow another set of 2 from a neighbor. As there is less batter in each pan you need to reduce the cooking time from the direction on the box.

Answer 2

Bright Sky Birthday Cake

Bake a rainbow

The May/June issue of American Girl magazine calls this simply "Colorful Cake." Daughter came across it and immediately demanded it for her birthday party. Because I'm a sucker, I agreed.

Make a white cake cake mix batter according to directions, and divide it into four parts. Add a tablespoon of Jello to each part of the batter; they used cherry, orange, lime, and berry blast and I followed suite. They specifically state that one should not use grape. They call for using 9-inch cake pans and baking 15 minutes; I have 8-inch dark, heavy, no stick pans that call for setting the oven 25 degrees F cooler than the recipe and I ended up baking for 20 minutes. 15 minutes was too little, although I might have gotten away with 18.

Put the layers together in rainbow order with a can of yellow icing. I didn't want to use lemon, so used the "butter cream" flavor. Then you reserve a 1/4 cup of a can of white icing and mix six drops of blue food coloring into the rest. Frost the outside of the cake with the blue, and use the white to make clouds.

This is a pain in the fanny to do, especially if you don't have four of the same sized cake pans. It is also super sweet, using two cans of icing and regular Jello in the batter (it didn't say one could use sugar free and after the caveat about using the grape flavor, I wasn't going to risk it.) It was okay to make just once for the hell of it, but if she wants another one, she can bake it herself.