Simply Sweet ColorCakes

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I love to cook, but even more importantly I love to bake. I was so very excited to receive this awesome new cookbook: Simply Sweet ColorCakes Cookbook.

About Simply Sweet ColorCakes:

Get stunning rainbow looks for your favorite desserts – amazing tie-dye, ombre, layered, and hidden “surprise inside” color effects for cakes, cupcakes, and more, made easy.

With Simply ColorCakes, you can tie-dye, layer, and sprinkle your way to baking bliss! From Polka-Dot Layer Cake to Rainbow Cake Pops, this complete guide offers over 100 recipes and incredible photos for creating adorable, bakery-style desserts at home.

ColorCakes includes tantalizing treats – cupcakes, cakes, and cake pops, plus cookie bars, ice cream treats, and more. Readers will find inspiration on every page, with a dramatic, beautiful photo of every recipe, step-by-step instructions for creating cool designs and cutouts, and techniques for customizing your color. Simply Sweet ColorCakes is chock-full of desserts to wow your family and friends. Everyone will be saying, “How did you make that?!”

Rainbow Layer Cake: 

2 Packages white cake mix

Water, vegetable oil, and egg whites called for on cake mix boxes

Violet food coloring gel

Royal Blue food coloring gel

Kelly green food coloring gel

Yellow food coloring gel

Orange food coloring gel

Red food coloring gel

3 (16-oz.) cans ready to spread vanilla frosting, divided

2 3/4 C. powdered sugar, divided.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 6 (8-inch) round cake pans; line with parchment paper. Prepare double batch of cake mix according to package directions, using water, oil, and egg whites. Divide batter evenly between 6 bowls. Stir 1/8tsp. each of violet, blue, green, and yellow coloring into 4 of the batters. Stir 1/2 to 1 tsp. orange into the fifth bowl, and 3/4 to 1 tsp. red coloring into the sixth bowl. Pour batters into prepared pans.
2. Bake cake layers at 350 degrees for 13 to 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes, remove cakes from pans to wire racks, and cool completely (about 1 hour).
3. Beat 2 cans frosting with 1 cup powdered sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy (2 to 3 minutes). Stack cake layers with 1/3 cup frosting in between each layer. With 1 1/4 Cups frosting, spread a thin layer of frosting on top and sides of cakes.
4. Add remaining can of frosting and remaining 1 3/4 cups powdered sugar to remaining frosting in bowl. Beat at medium speed with electric mixer until light and fluffy (2 to 3 minutes). Divide frosting into 3 bowls. Tint 2 bowls different shades of light blue. Frost cake with deepest blue toward the bottom and white frosting on top. Use back of spoon to blend and swirl frosting.

My Thoughts:

I absolutely love this cookbook. As I said before I love to bake. There is a wide variety of wonderful recipes in this book and I have had so much fun trying out each of them.  This cookbook has:

• Sweets on a stick
• Crazy for cupcakes
• layer by layer
• cookie jar
• brilliant bars
• cool treats

Not only are there a wide variety of wonderful recipes included in this book, but there are also great pictures for many of the recipes. My girls absolutely love to look through this cookbook and find out which new recipe we are going to try.

Purchase:

If you are interested in purchasing this awesome cookbook, head on over to Amazon and you can get a copy for yourself.