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Ir came out well, although I had to make it twice. The first one commited suicide by leaping from the turntable to the basement floor just as I was getting ready to chill its stacked, crumb-coated self.

Very impressed Becky. Just beautiful!
Nance

Beautiful rainbow cake....lucky friend

lovely...how did you do it? And why would any cake of yours leap to its demise? Silly cake.

I hate those wayward cakes. This one is beautiful.

Nice looking cake. It sure is a bummer when cakes don't behave. When I was a banquet waiter, I saw a few wedding cakes take a dive from their stands. One time we had a cake fall and we were able to remove a layer and make it look presentable, but we told the bridal party that they better take pictures as soon as possible so that we could take the top layer off again because the bottom layer was pretty messed up. Another time we had a wedding cake where the baker reused wooden dowel rods and they were moldy and the pieces of cake that were closest to the dowels tasted like mold. If you are wondering how I knew this, it's because we used to cut the cake in the kitchen and then serve it to the guests.

My aunt was a baker/caterer and made many wedding cakes. She assembled the cake at home and then drove it to the reception. She had a sturdy cardboard carton that was about 30" square and only about 6" deep. We would line the carton with foil and she would slide the cake in. We'd put it in the back of her stationwagon. My job was to keep the carton from sliding around on the floor and the cake from sliding around in the carton.
She was a terrible driver and I was a nervous wreck by the time we arrived. We only had one catastrophe. She took about a gallon of frosting with her so she was able to repair it. I quit shortly after.
fitzie

It's actually pretty simple. Make a white cake batter and scale it into six bowls. Color the batter with gel colors, I useed ones from Wilton. Bake the layers, and cool. Stack in the correct order with a white buttercream flavored as you wish. Crumb coat, chill and finish icing.
I used Martha Stewart's recipe and it worked, but I will scale it up a bit next time. The layers were just a bit thin. I didn't use as much filling as suggested, because I didn't want to make two batches of buttercream when re-making the cake. I just didn't have the time. People thought that the layers were different flavors, and you could do that with extracts, but I didn't.

Cool!

I hate when that happens. I hope you told it off properly, even if it was dead.

Its reincarnation is lovely though!

Amy