For the Love of Food and Chocolate!: Swirly Rainbow Cake!

This week is my last week at home before I start my job in Somerville, and it conveniently coincides with the birthdays of some of my BEST friends in the whole world - Ashley and Grace! :)

For our last minute get together, I decided to make a refined version of my Rainbow Cake with Heaven Frosting, using only one box of cake mix instead of two (it was way too much cake for four people and I didn't want any to go to waste!).

I started off making one box of white cake.

Then, I separated the batter into six bowls (a lot of this is similar to the original Rainbow Cake, just on a smaller scale), and dyed the batter six different colors (I again used red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple...but you can of course switch it up!).

Then (Noah's idea), I swirled two colors together in each cake pan (purple/blue, yellow/green, orange/red). To do this, I made a separator out of the cake box (clever, I know) and tin foil. Fold the box as if you are going to recycle it, then cut the top off...this fit perfectly in my 9" round pan. Then I covered it in tin foil and sprayed it with a little nonstick spray.

I then put it in the middle of the pan, stood it up with the can of frosting (you can use anything...), and poured one of the colors into one side of the pan!

Then I poured the next color (in this case, blue!)

I then swirled the colors together using a butter knife, like so:

After that, I also dragged the knife from side to side to get a bit more color on each side!

More swirling pics:

(The orange and red kinda looked like one color, but that's alright!)

Then I popped them in the oven for about 11-12 minutes each, and let them cool before frosting them with Pillsbury Whipped Dark Chocolate Frosting :) mmmmm, chocolate!

P.S. It's okay to have mishaps when you're cooking...the one below was NOT fun...but I managed to salvage it and it turned out beautiful! :) ("If you don't laugh, you'll cry...")