Aunt Jemima Cake Mix, 1952

[medren.livejournal.com]

Aunt Jemima's gayest triumph!!

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[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

I've seen worse, at least in recipe form: some years ago I ran across a recipe for an absolute monstrosity of a polychrome cake that involved taking an ordinary cake-batter recipe and dividing into five bowls. Dye four of them red, yellow, green, and blue, and put a substantial quantity of melted chocolate into the fifth. Pour the five batters, by spoonfuls, into cake pans and bake as directed. Put the layers together with whipped cream between them -- which you've dyed purple -- and then frost with ordinary buttercream dyed with BLACK paste coloring to a dark "metallic looking" gray. Even the person who wrote it up described this as "an absolute Frankenstein of a cake".

[misstia]

that sounds really intriguing and a great halloween cake!!

[kartusch.livejournal.com]

I actually made my daughter a cake like this one year when she requested a Rainbow cake, but with equally rainbow icing.

[chocoholicbec.livejournal.com]

My mum did that for my fourth birthday! Apparently she went through a whole box of liquid food colouring.

[creative-excess.livejournal.com]

Ha, I've made rainbow cake before. I think we just frosted it normal-like, though, and I don't mind a bit of food coloring now and then so long as I'm not eating fistfuls of it. Plus, it was cute!

[acksed.livejournal.com]

I can taste food colouring, so when anyone passes round rainbow cakes or muffins, I have to decline. Politely.