Any bakers?

1krazykitty

I'm looking do a cake recipe I can add dye to, making a rainbow cake. I tried the following one but dh wasn't a fan of it, he said it was too much like a muffin/pancake hybrid. I don't know what that means lol

 

2.25 cups cake flour

1 tbsp. baking powder

1/2 teasp. Salt

1.25 cups buttermilk

4 large eggs whites

1/2 teasp. Vanilla

1 stick butter 

Pecswife

you can add dye to any white cake recipe. I did the rainbow cake before and I just double my normal white cake recipe. The recipe you listed has no sugar ? 

misspunky

Are you wanting to do a made from scratch cake or would you be okay with using a white box cake? Like PP said, you can add dye to any cake mix. If you are looking for a homemade mix, Wilton has a white cake recipe that you can add dye to. Good luck!

http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Classic-White-Cake

iloveu4ever

You could use a simple box white cake mix.

overtonhayes

My (well, I'm not claiming to have invented it) standard cake recipe is this:

Cream together 4oz butter and 4oz sugar until pale and fluffy
Whisk in 2 eggs and 2tsp vanilla
Sift in 4oz flour and 1 to 2 tsp baking powder. Mix in gently.
Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes in two 7-inch round cake pans.

For a larger cake (8-inch round tins or larger), make all of the ingredients 6oz and use 3 eggs.

I dyed this cake pink a few weeks ago with no problems for a baby shower. Just add in the dye before you put in the flour. If you want to do a 'rainbow' cake, maybe you could make it similar to the way you'd make a marble cake? That is, split the mixture (before adding flour) into 7. Add in the 7 different colours of the rainbow, and then the flour. Pour each colour into the pan and use a chopstick or skewer to swirl the different colours around?

Not sure whether this would make a rainbow swirly effect or if the colours would bleed into each other, though, so give it a trial run.

mariagarcia495

You can use any white cake recipe for rainbow cake; you have to take all ingredients double. And don?t forget to add sugar in your recipe.