Rainbow Cake

Cake:

• 2½ cups white granulated sugar
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoon Badia Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup buttermilk
• ¼ cup heavy whipping cream
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon Badia Sea Salt
• Badia Food Coloring (variety pack)

Frosting:

• 12 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1½ cups butter, softened (do not melt)
• 6 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon Badia Vanilla Extract

Cake

• Preheat oven to 325 F
• Generously grease and flour 6 (9-inch cake pans.) I only had 3 pans so I had to bake in two rounds
• In a large bowl cream together sugar and butter
• Mix in eggs until thoroughly incorporated
• Mix in vanilla extract, buttermilk and heavy cream
• Mix in half of the flour, baking powder, and salt
• When mixture is combined, mix in the rest of the flour
• Divide the batter into six bowls (about 1 cup of batter per bowl)
• Add food coloring to each bowl to create a vibrant red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet
• Be sure to add in enough food coloring to the batter to make the colors very vibrant
• To make orange, create a vibrant yellow and then add drops of red until you have orange
• To make violet make a vibrant red and add drops of blue
• Pour each colored batter into the prepared pans and spread out into an even layer (layers will be thin)
• Bake for 10-15 minutes or until center is set
• Do not overbake
• Keep a close eye on them as some ovens run hotter and these are thin layers
• Remove from oven and let cakes cool in the pan until pans are warm enough to touch
• Run a spatula around the edges of the pans to loosen the cake and then very carefully remove the cakes from the pans
• Place on a cooling rack and cool completely

Frosting:

• Meanwhile make the cream cheese frosting by creaming together cream cheese and butter
• Mix in powdered sugar and vanilla
• Place the violet layer down first and frost. Followed by the blue layer, green layer, yellow layer, orange layer and finally the red layer. (frost between each layer)
• Place a thin coat of the icing on the cake to create a crumb coat
• This will make the cake even all around and seal any loose crumbs
• Once the crumb coat is set, finish frosting the cake.

Slice & serve!

• (To create more defined layers of frosting between the colors, place the frosted cake in the fridge to allow the cream cheese frosting to firm up before slicing)