Somewhere Over the Rainbow....

Last week was a busy one for me, I worked everyday {as a substitute teacher} except Wednesday but that day I was busy with preparing for St. Patrick's Day festivities at the Mader household .  The day did not go as exactly as planned.  I got a text that they were changing practice to that night on account the fields would be closed on Thursday.  I had  a big Irish {by the way we don't have a lick of Irish in us} meal planned as I always have done every year since my girls were babies.  I bought my Corn-beef ,Cabbage, Red Potatoes and planned on making a Rainbow Cake in the spirit of March 17th.  We never got to sit down as a family to eat our traditional Irish dinner, boo hoo.  I did however grab a picture of the Rainbow Cake.  I got the recipe at Whatever { here from Meg.  }Blog.   Meg loves color and has a vivacious clan of 5 children, yes I said 5! Check out her recipe for Stuffed Shells, I copycat that too.   

To make the rainbow cake you need to use White Cake Mix {2 boxes} and the Icing Tints from Wilton's.  I goa variety box of all the colors you see above at Michaels for about 8 dollars using my 40% off coupon.  Using the tints instead of food coloring gives you a  very vibrant colorful rainbow cake. 

 
   {above picture from Whatever Blog} 

If you have the luck of the Irish and you have 6 cake pans you divide the batter into them evenly since I'm not Irish and lucky I have only two cake pans and had to cook them by 2's, let them cool and pop them out.  I will definetely be making this cake again and so I'll be picking up some more cake pans to make this easier..

 

Here is the outside of my Rainbow Cake.  I used Tracey's Butter-Cream Frosting Recipe  and added tiny green shamrocks on top.  It was very very delicious and moist. 

The day also contained the annual hunt for the "pot of gold".  Read the story here.

   

Comments

[gabrielle]

Shelly, it was a lot of work but soo yummy..I just need more pans to make it easier..

Beka...I know..what is your recipe for Corn beef?

[Beka]

My goodness!! That cake looks delish! Sorry about your St. Paddy's dinner. I made mine late, but luckily Nick got home late, and said it was the best corned beef and cabbage I ever made. Go figure.

[shelley e]

wow- that cake looks like alot of work! :) Looks good though!