Today, for the NYC Gay Pride Parade, we prepared this gorgeous rainbow layered cake. In light of the recent Orlando attacks, we wanted to bake something that tasted like happiness & hope. The cake recipe was inspired by Smitten Kitchen’s Best Birthday Cake, but the colored cake layer stacking and Chefanie Sheet application was all us :D

RECIPE

Ingredients: 

    •    2 cups & 1 tbs. flour

    •    1 tsp. baking powder

    •    3/4 tsp. baking soda

    •    1 tsp. table salt

    •    1 stick butter

    •    1 cup sugar

    •    2 tsp. vanilla extract

    •    2 eggs

    •    1 cup buttermilk

  •    Red, yellow, and blue food dye

Buttercream Frosting:

    •    4 cups powdered sugar

    •    1 tsp. salt

    •    ½ cup butter, softened

    •    3 tsp. vanilla extract

• (Up to) 1/2 cup heavy cream

Directions:

    •    Preheat oven to 350

    •    Prepare 6 4-inch cake pans by spraying with canola oil.  

    •    In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking power, baking soda, and salt.

    •    In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Then beat in vanilla. 

    •    Beat in egg whites. 

    •    Gently beat in buttermilk until just combined. 

    •    Slowly add flour mixture until completely smooth. 

    •    Divide batter equally among 6 separate bowls and add food dye to each bowl to make red, orange (red + yellow food coloring), yellow, green (blue + yellow food coloring), blue, and purple (blue + red food coloring) cake batter.  

    •    Pour each batter into prepared pans and bake for 30 minutes or until the tops are golden.

    •    While the cake is in the oven, whisk together ingredients for buttercream until fluffy. 

    •    Remove cakes from the oven cake to cool for 15 minutes and then remove from pan. 

    •    Once the cakes have cooled, spread buttercream in between each cake layer.

    •   Apply #ChefanieSheet & enjoy!

30 minutes active time, 1 hour total time. Serves 6.