How to Make a Rainbow Birthday Cake
Emma Vogel
TECM 2700
12-4-12
Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................................. iii
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ v
Overview of Materials………………..……………………………………………………………………………………1
Coloring the Cake Batter………………………………………………………………………………………………….3
Baking the Cake Layers…………………….……………..…………..…………………………………………………..5
Putting it All Together…..…………………….………………..…………………………………………………………9
Glossary….……………………………………………………………………………………………….…..………………13
Index……………………….……………………...……………………………………………………………………………15
Introduction
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Introduction
Your best friend’s birthday is coming up soon, and you’re planning a birthday party for her
and want to make an awesome cake that she’ll love. You’re not very artistic and decorating
cakes can require some skill but you don’t want to spend a lot of money on having someone
make a cake for you. So you need something that will be easy to do and look awesome at
the same time.
You decide that you want to make her a rainbow layered cake.
Manual Overview
After reading this manual you will be able to:
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Gather materials needed to bake a cake
Color the layers to make the colors of the rainbow
Position the layers to assemble the cake
Apply icing/ decorate the cake.
I will not explain how to operate the oven to bake the cake and how to prepare cake batter
since different brands have difference instructions. I will also not include the cost estimate
on the supplies and decorations for the cake because there are a lot of different variables
that could be changed depending on user preference.
Supplies
Before you start make sure that you have the following supplies:
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White Cake mix
o Ingredients listed for specific batter
Food coloring
9” round cake pans
Whipped cream icing
Mixing bowls
Mixing whisks/ spoons/ knife to spread icing
oven
After you gather all the necessary supplies, you are ready to bake your cake.
Words that are colored green can be found in the glossary.
Overview of Materials
Overview of Materials
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Overview of Materials
Cake Mix
Ingredients may vary depending on the type of white cake mix. To be able to have enough
for the six layers for the cake, I would recommend using two boxes of Betty Crocker®
white cake mix. With the cake mix I use, it required per box:
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3 eggs
1 cup of water
½ cup of vegetable oil
Other Materials Needed:
Along with the cake batter, you will need:
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Food coloring
9” round cake pans
Whipped cream icing
Mixing bowls
Mixing whisks/ spoons/ knife to spread icing
Oven
Coloring the Cake Batter
Coloring the Cake Batter
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Coloring the Cake Batter
After you have obtained all the necessary supplies to make the cake, you will need to make
the cake batter according the instructions for that specific batter. After you have the cake
batter, you are ready to color it.
1. Separate the cake batter into to six equal
sections in bowls
2. Add about eight drops of blue food
coloring and eight drops of red food
coloring to one bowl to make the purple
cake batter. Amount of food coloring
could be changed depending on how
bright you want the colors to be.
Most food coloring packages come with red, blue, green, and yellow, so you will only
have to mix colors to get purple and orange for the six colors. If it doesn’t come a green
dye, mixing blue and yellow will turn green.
3. Finish coloring the remaining five sections of cake batter to get the rest of the
colors: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.
Baking the Cake layers
Baking the Cake Layers
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Baking the Cake Layers
After you have all layers of the cake colored,
you are ready to start baking.
1. Pour the batter from the bowls
into the 9” round baking pans.
2. Place the pans in the oven and
bake the cakes two layers a time.
3. Start baking with the purple layer
first and work backwards in the
rainbow (purple, blue, green,
yellow, orange, and red) for easy
assembly later.
4. Bake the first two layers for about 12-15 minutes.
5. Remove the purple layer from the baking pan after cooling and place on a plate.
6. Remove the blue layer and place it on the purple layer.
Baking the Cake layers
7. Repeat steps 4-6 for the next four layers of the rainbow cake.
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Putting it All Together
Putting it All Together
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Putting it All Together
After all the layers of the cake are baked and cooled,
you are ready to put it all together.
1. Place the red layer on another plate and
apply the whipped cream icing to the top
of it.
2. Place the orange layer on top of the iced
red layer.
3. Add icing to the orange layer.
4. Repeat steps 2-3 for the remaining layers of the cake.
5. Add icing the edges and top of the cake after all the
layers of the cake have icing on them.
Putting it All Together
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Glossary
Glossary
Cake batter- the cake mix after it has been mixed with the other ingredients and ready to
bake.
Cake layer- one section of the six layer cake that is a specific color.
Food coloring- dye used to color the layers of the cake.
Cake pans- 9” baking pans used to cook the layers of the cake.
Oven- Cooking stove used to bake the cakes.
Whipped cream icing- icing used on the cakes.
White cake mix- type of cake mix used for the rainbow layer cake.
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Index
Index
Cake Batter- v, 3, 4
Cake layer- 5, 6, 7
Food coloring- v, 2, 4
Cake pans- v, 2
Oven- 2, 6
Whipped cream icing- v, 2, 10
White cake mix- v, 2
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