Fun Rainbow Cake Recipe and Tips - What's Cooking with Paula Deen?

A super fun cake for birthdays and get togethers is Paula's rainbow cake. In this podcast Paula walks us through how to make a rainbow cake, which is a layered cake with many beautiful colors and is never the same twice! Cake Preparation - You can use a yellow box cake or make from scratch using the recipe below. Ingredients: 2 stick of butter at room temperature, 2 cups of sugar 4 eggs 3 cups of self rising flour 1 cup of milk, vanilla extract 1 teaspoon of almond extract. Preperation: Step 1 Cream butter Add sugar to beaten butter Whip sugar into butter until smooth. This usually takes 5-8 minutes. Make sure you cream it well. Step 2 Add your eggs one at a time. When you add the eggs, make sure you scrape the bowl repeatedly to incorporate everything. Step 3 Start adding your flour 1/4 cup at a time and beat into mixture and then add milk and then flour where you finish on the flour addition. This makes for smoother batter. Add vanilla extract. Use real vanilla extract for better flavor and then incorporate the almond extract. This makes for smoother batter. Step 4 Use three nine inch cake pans. Spray them with cooking spray and put wax paper down in the bottom of each cake pan. This keeps the wax paper in place and then not have your cakes stick. Pour the batter into four separate bowls in equal portions. Step 5 Use gel food colorings as the color is much more vibrant. Choose one color per bowl. Step 6 Add different colors in spoonfuls into each cake pan until the layers of the cakes reach the edge of the pans. Mix the colors to your own personal preferences. Step 7 Bake cake in a preheated oven over 20 -25 minutes. To make sure cake is done, touch it with your finger. If it springs back, it's done. Also if the edges pull away from the pan, the cake is done. Let the cake rest for 5 minutes and then put onto the cake racks. Wait until the cake comes to room temperature to ice your cake. If the cake is warm, it will melt your icing. Icing Recipe: Ingredients: 2 cups of butter at room temperature 4 cups of confectioners sugar 1-2 tablespoons of milk to make the icing spreadable, but be careful as too much milk will really thin your icing. Beat together all ingredients until smooth and ice the cake. Slice and enjoy!