As far as I'm concerned, there was no point in continuing my work until I had purchased ink (Jason and I are going late night shopping later). This means the rest of my day was suddenly free. So I decided to try my hand at a rainbow layer cake (naturally).
To do this, I just used a packet mix (moist lemon cake from woolies) that I had in my cupboard. Once I made it up though, I realised I definitely wouldn't have enough for a rainbow. A traffic light at best! I decided on the primary colours red yellow and blue (didn't really want a traffic light cake).
I separated the cake mix into 3 plates and mixed in some of my fancy new gel food dye to each.
I wanted to make this a mini layer cake, but I didn't have a small cake
tin, so I simply used a smaller pot and put that in the oven...
Fancy
When all the layers were finished, I started layering them on to of each other with a basic icing in between. I then took some easy-peasy pre-made white icing (gosh I'm lazy today) and rolled it out flat so I could cover the entire cake with it. This turned out to not be as easy-peasy as I thought it would be... When ever I rolled it out on my icing-sugared table, it would always be stuck to the table when I tried to peel it off! Even though my table was dusted with icing sugar like it said! Grrrrr...I eventually just laid down some alfoil, rolled it out flat and then turned it upside down over my cake, slowly peeling the alfoil off.
Just to make it more beautiful, I kneaded some pink and yellow food gel into some leftover icing and made stars.
Finished!
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