Super Epic Rainbow Cake

The middle of June brought a lot of activity to downtown Winston-Salem, and Saturday June 14th was really packed. It started with the Winston-Salem Pride parade, and tagged onto the end of it was the March for No Kings anti-Trump/anti-immigration round-ups protest ("Deportation: Literally Biting the Hands that Feed You"). The Winston-Salem Dash had an evening game and the Summer on Fourth concert series took place around the corner from the house. The typical quiet of Spring Street was happily put aside while the throngs massed and the calls were responded to and the colors waved and the people danced.

Let's throw in a few pictures here from the gathering for the No Kings protest while we're at it. Above is what I was watching emerge from the kitchen, looking out toward Fourth Street, so I went upstairs to grab a better angle on it. Then I walked the half-block to the intersection of Fourth and Spring and snagged a few more photos:

These are not good days in America, and the damage is far-reaching and unfathomable. I regret that an infantile obsession with the price of eggs triumphed over the good of our nation in the last election. The stakes were incredibly high and too many people thought it didn't matter.

In honor of Pride, I was once more ready to tackle the interesting endeavor of a super epic rainbow cake. It is always pleasing, both on the eyes and on the tongue.

I'd let almost four years pass since the last one. And it's a bit of a production but also really do-able.

I do really like the base white cake batter, and getting the right range of colors from the gel is a fun and imperfect science.

Frosting and icing are not universally loved among our regular crew, so I thought I'd see if I could get away with just the one batch of lemony Swiss meringue buttercream. That way I kept the filling thinner and the outer decoration almost skimpy. Still, it all seemed to work quite well. Then again: it's a striking cake.

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"Say It With Cake: Super Epic Rainbow Cake," from Kaitlin Flannery of the Whisk Kid blog. [Published 19 August 2009]