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Swirls of colors plus a blue raspberry frosting make everyone smile when they see this cake!

This recipe is dedicated to my nephew Marshal, who informed me a few weeks ago that today, October 10, 2012 is an important day:  it marks the 2 year anniversary of the release of  “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” TV show.

Confused?  I was!  Apparently this show, targeted toward young girls, has gained a cult following among teenage boys– they call themselves “Bronies”…I guess Bro+ponies= Bronies.  Um…yeah. Learned all of that on Wikipedia… SO Marshal was telling me that he and his friends wanted to make a rainbow cake (for the pony “Rainbow Dash”, of course) to celebrate the day.  The thought of making 6 layers of cake in different colors sounded exhausting, so instead I made 6 colors and just dumped them on top of each other in the same pan.  I love how it turned out!

Here’s how it was made:

INGREDIENTS: (printer friendly recipe)

• One boxed white cake mix, plus eggs, water and oil to make it according to the box.
• Icing colors in Purple, Blue, Green, Red, Orange and Yellow.
• One stick (4 oz.) salted butter at room temp.
• One stick (4 oz.) unsalted butter at room temp.
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons raspberry flavoring

DIRECTIONS:

• Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
• Make cake mix according to box (or make your own favorite white cake recipe!)
• Grease 2- 9 inch cake pans and place a circle of parchment paper in the bottom of each.
• Evenly divide batter into 6 bowls (about 1 cup of batter in each)
• Add icing color gels to color each bowl of batter.
• Pour 1/2 of the purple batter in the center of one pan.
• Pour 1/2 of the blue batter into the center of the purple batter (adding the blue will push the purple toward the edges).
• Continue to pour 1/2 of each color batter into the center using green, yellow, orange and red in that order.
• In second pan do the same but in the reverse order, starting with the red 1st.
• Bake at 350 according to package (mine took about 25 minutes)
• Remove from oven and cool.  Tip over onto a wire cake rack to finish cooling.
• Make frosting by adding butters, powdered sugar, raspberry flavor and a little blue icing gel color together and beating on high until light and fluffy.
• Level off the tops of each cake layer and place one layer, cut side up on a serving plate.  Frost the top of this layer.
• Place the second layer, cut side down on top and frost entire cake.
• Sprinkle with rainbow sugar or decorate as desired.

ENJOY!!!

My thoughts:  Although this cake was created with Marshal’s celebration in mind, it would be such a fun and colorful addition to any party!!!  Lets hear it for tie-dye rainbow cake!!!!!  Thanks for the idea Marshal!!!