Rainbow Cake 3: The Cookening

The Party Assembled.

We begin with a "Funfetti" cake mix, four eggs (of which three will be used), food coloring, oil, water, and a pan.

Flouring the pan

The cake called for prepping the pan with a "lard/flour mixture". After asking a woman with more experience than I (my mother), it turns out this means greasing the pan with Crisco and then shaking flour all over it, as though it was a cinnamon toast. Fair enough.

Mixing 1

Some packaged cake mix, with rainbow dots.

Mixing 2

Some water.

Mixing 3

Some oil.

Mixing 5

Some eggs.

Mixing 6

And finally, two minutes of tender loving care. :)

Wait, what?

Why is this bowl full of batter? Why is there only about 20% of the batter there? And what are those worms on the top of it?

Le gasp!

It was FOOD COLORING! That's right, ladies and gentlemen. When Garnett goes out to bake a rainbow cake, he does it right.

Purple: In.

Yeah, it looks more gray than purple here. It's the light, honest :P

Mixin' the blue

After this one, I washed out the bowl and the spoon to keep that red food coloring I used in Purple from gettin' in my Green.

Blue and green: In.

It's really starting to take shape, don'tcha think?

Yellow and orange: In.

Almost there...

And there's the red!

All mixed and ready to be added to the top.

Red: In.

And the sextet is complete.

Going in to bake.

Which gives me a good chance to clean up my mess. :) (Said cleaning up of mess not pictured here.)

INTERMISSION

So, while waiting for the cake to bake, my eyes glanced over to the Cars section of the newspaper, and I noticed this little gem. I dunno, I'd probably go for an Escalade filled with mermaids, for the novelty if nothing else. *shrug*

It's done!

After 35 minutes, the cake was ready to be removed from the oven. I did so, leaving it out to cool for about 15 minutes more before removing it from the pan.

"Wait for cake to cool completely."

The cake was then placed on a separate cooling pan to await frosting. Notice the subtle blues and greens that mottle its top.

The frosting.

As it turned out, however, frosting was not necessary for this cake. Tac (believing that I was still in the South Bay) indicated to me that the only proper frosting would be Strawberry, or else no frosting at all, and unable to obtain this flavor at such a late date I was forced to deliver the cake naked. That is, the cake was naked. Not me.

Tac is perplexed.

You would be too, if a friend who lives 400 miles away suddenly appeared at your door with a genuine Rainbow Cake.

Tac is still perplexed, but also happy.

Who ever said cake isn't nutritious? This picture is photographic proof of rainbow cake's power to cure a wide variety of ailments, such as melancholy, and strep throat! Score one for the bakery!