Madison's Tie Dye Cake

Once upon a time, Madison (my niece) turned 12.  I volunteered to make her a cake and she picked a 'spunky' cake- which translates to tie dye, of course. So, using Pinterest, we found a fabulous cake and followed the recipe. Here is it:

Normal cake mix, divided into 6 colors blobbed one at a time into the middle of the cake pan.

I used a knife to drag through the colors, 1 to tie dye it, 2 to spread the batter out a little. 

This is how it looked after being baked. Cool. 

I cut the top off to even it out and this is the color on the inside. Even cooler. 

I stacked the cakes up with strawberry jam in between, did a crumb layer and froze them for a two hours.

Using a can of frosting, I mixed in a good amount of powdered sugar to stiffen it up a bit and then frosted the cake in white.  Once that was done, I used frosting gel to make circles on top.  I kind of wish I hadn't made them quite so round and just did random shapes and blobs. It might have looked a little more tie dyeish that way... 

Then, using a clean paint brush spread the gel out to the edges wiping the brush in between. 

 I feel like the sides, which wouldn't allow for perfect circles ended up more like tie dye.

 Finishing touches included white frosting edges and lime green candy balls

Tada!