That’s not so say that funfetti doesn’t brighten up an otherwise rainy Monday gloomfest,\. but for heaven’s sake, we challenge you to find a more cheerful confection. The best part is that we have the recipe and we’re sharing it with you now. If we band together, Philadelphia, we can make this gray city a lil’ brighter just one cake at a time. It’s not that difficult, and just imagine the heartwarming memories that baking rainbow cakes with your bf/gf/child/roomie can provide; dabbing a lil’ cake batter on their nose just so, playful flour fights, or even mixing colorful cake batter a la Ghost. Ahem. Anyway, we dug around and this seems to be the best way to go about it. Be it from a box or scratch, the same concept applies, just try to keep the original batter as white as possible so the unnatural coloring is as radiant as possible.

Be it for Spring, Easter, or coming out event, the extra effort that goes into a rainbow-cake-bake will be made up for in smiles (or food coloring induced seizures). And we’d be remiss if we didn’t hat-tip The Omnomicon and Nikkita here, for truly, they are the Tigris and Euphrates of Rainbow Cake knowledge.