rainbow cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- 30 mins preperation, 2 hours cooking, cooling and decorating
- More effort
- Serves 25
Ingredients
- Utensil's
- * 1 large mixing bowl
- * jug or small mixing bowl
- * wooden mixing spoon
- * spatula
- * sieve
- * hand whisk or electric whisk/mixer
- * 4 breakfast bowls (or more depending on how many different colours your going to use)
- * 4 or more spoons
- * food weighing scales
* 26cm - 10" springform pan
- * 2 x 18cm - 7" pans
- * baking paper
- * red, green, yellow and blue food colouring
- * a table spoon
- * wooden skewer
- Ingredient's
- * 330g butter (room temperature)
- * 330g caster sugar
- * 330g self-raising flour
- * 6 medium-large eggs
- * vanilla essence to taste (optional) i didn't use this as i thought the cake was rich enough
- * food colouring-red, green, yellow and blue
- Buttercream
- * 120g butter (room temperature)
- * 280g icing sugar
- * a few drops of vanilla essence (optional but tasty)
- * food colouring (optional)
Method
- STEP 1*TIP* to save time weigh out ingredients first!
- STEP 2# grease your baking pans with butter,
- STEP 3# line baking pans with baking paper (you can also grease the baking paper if your worried about it sticking, this is optional)
- STEP 4#and preheat oven to 200c
- STEP 5# in a large mixing bowl add the butter and sugar,
- STEP 6# cream until light and fluffy (so that it easily falls off the spoon)
- STEP 7# in a jug or small mixing bowl add all 6 eggs and whisk together,
- STEP 8# add the whisked eggs to the sugar and butter a little at a time,beating well after each addition,
- STEP 9# sieve the flour into the mixture about a quarter at a time, folding after each addition
- STEP 10# divide the mixture equally between the four or more breakfast bowls- now for the fun part!!
- STEP 11# mix each bowl of cake mix a different colour with the food colouring (see below for how to mix food colouring)
- STEP 12# add 1 table spoon of each colour in the center of the cake pans, one after the other, ensuring each "blob" of mixture is placed on top of the next (do not spread mixture out it will do this on its own )
- STEP 13# place in the middle of preheated oven for 30 mins (small cake) after 20mins turn oven down to 150c, large cake may take longer (40-45mins),test with a skewer in the middle of cake, if its clean its done!
- STEP 14# NEVER open the oven door before the 1st 20mins or so of cooking as this will cause the cake to sink!
- STEP 15# allow cakes to stand before turning on to a cooling rack, then carefully peal off baking paper
- STEP 16# allow to fully cool for an hour or so.
- STEP 17Mixing the buttercream
- STEP 181. place softened butter in a bowl
- STEP 192. sieve small amounts of icing in with the butter and cream together, do this until its a nice consistency
- STEP 203. if you find its still to "sloppy" add more icing sugar until you reach the desired consistency!
- STEP 214. add a few drops of food colouring (optional) ideally a colouring paste would be better but i didn't have any and just used the liquid form, be careful with this as it can make your butter cream to runny
- STEP 225. spread a small amount on the center of the large cake, then place the smaller cake on top
- STEP 236. cover and place in the fridge for 15-20mins to allow the buttercream to set
- STEP 24Covering the cake
