that rainbow cake looks so good!!! and I love the reasons given on htat website 
Really? I find baking to be alot harder because of the precision and exactness of it. I find cooking so much easier because I can make so mnay substitutions and almost all my dishes come out at least okay. Yeah…I know…dheet sigh
I made a cake last night (caved and bought an electric mixer and followed the exact directions) and it actually came out pretty well. I’m still not good at handling the icing but this is alot better than the last two monstrosities i made 
I made this in a 9" pan. only thing, I filled the pan 3/4ths of the way instead of fully because I thought I read on here to never fill the pan all the way in order to get a flat cake. Anyways it baked perfectly, but I just have a little bit of batter leftover so I was thinking about mixing it with another cake batter that I have (redvelvet). I will definitely post the results. Oh, also, I greased the bottom of the pan a little bit (and the sides) with canola oil, so the cake came out very easily. I took it out of the oven and put it on a plate in the freezer for a couple of hours…then trasnferred it to the fridge, decorated it, and then put it back in the fridge. I used a combo of vanilla frosting + cool whip.
I know its nowhere near as pretty as teh cakes posted here…but its a start!
Right now I have a few more boxes (one white/vanilla and one strawberry) and want to experiment a bit with them next time…any ideas?