I have never made a stacked cake before, but a family friend asked me if I could make a tie dyed cake for her groovy/hippie themed wedding.

I "tie dyed" the batter, but it was all vanilla flavored with a grand marnier syrup.

I also made a Groom's cake for the guitar playing groom, which was devil's food with a cherry filling.

Both were frosted with buttercream.

Also thanks for all the ladies on this website - I got a lot of great info from here before I embarked on this adventure!

I think the tie dye cake looks really lovely. I love it!

I LOVE that look really you did a great job

Great job on both cakes! I'm amazed at how many colors you gave the inside of the cake and none of them ran together!!! Well done!

How did you tie dye the batter?

Love the inside of the cake!...I have colored the inside of a St.Patty's cake green but not all the layers different.....very cool,as well as the outside tye dye....
The groom's cake looks great and just YUMMY!

Great job on both!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is the most fantastic piece of cake I have ever seen

Wow! Great coloring! You hit the theme great! (And I'm one of the few on here who was actually ALIVE AND AROUND during the 60's dye tie era!)

The groom's cake is great .... I love the stair-step effect on the sides.

I think I can safely say that "we" are looking forward to seeing more from you!

I just picked two colors per layer and halved the batter for each layer, then used food coloring gel to color them and spread them in the pan in layers. They did actually mix and run into each other a fair amount, but it looked nice that way.

If you do this, I suggest using the gels and not the food color drops because they changed the consistency of the batter. Here is a picture of my first test of the batter, when I used drops.

(Note: this is also a different type of frosting and dye that I tried but didn't like.)

I also made tie dyed guitars but decided not to use them because I thought they were "too much."

Great job!

how did you get the buttercream tye died?? it looks airbrushed, but i could be wrong...it looks great!

Oh my gosh I love rainbows! What an awesome cake!

I love the tie dyed cake!! That's so cool You did a great job on both cakes. Congrats on a job well done

It is airbrushed with the Color Mist food coloring sprays. They worked much better than I would have expected!