Rainbow Cake

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Has anyone made a Rainbow Cake for a kid's birthday before? I have done a little baking but I am no expert. Is it very difficult?

I've done a rainbow cake before. It wasn't difficult, more time consuming because you have to divide up the batter to make the different colours. I bought red, yellow and blue gel food colouring to make all the colours - I did red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. You do really need the proper gel colours so the colours aren't wishy washy. I used sugarflair ones.

If you use food colouring that says 'not bake stable' on the label it will fade when you bake the mixture and won't look good at all.

I like the inside of this cake, I'd use that recipe but decorate the top with a rainbow of Smarties.

Yes, I made this www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3028705/rainbow-cake . You would need dr oetkter gel colouring, a full tube per layer which works out expensive. I only did 6 layers. It takes longer than you expect and don't use the icing in the the recipe above.

I forgot to say it is fairly easily but very time consuming.

I made one for ds2s birthday and agree, very time consuming but looks impressive. I wouldn't use the Dr Oetker gel colouring, but get the gel / pastes (in little pots) that you can get in lakeland or online which have much stronger colours.
Was basically a whole afternoons job, 3 x 2 sets of cakes. But no more difficult than a basic sponge.