So me and my friend candi-cloud had a go at making a rainbow cake!! We used a Martha Stewart recipe I found on the internet, and it actually turned out VERY successful!. We only had 2 pans the same size so we did 3 batches of 2 layers!
Rainbow Layer Cake
Makes: one big-ass 6 layer cake!
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 30 mins plus time for decorating
3 cups plain flour
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter
2 1/3 cups sugar (we used caster sugar)
5 large egg whites (we got "posh birds" eggs...they were blue...)
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups milk
gel food colouring (we got dr oetker)
1. Preheat oven to 200C. grease the cake tins with some butter. In a bowl, mix the flour, salt and baking powder and put to one side.
2. Cream together the butter and the sugar. Gradually add the egg whites and vanilla, then mix well. Then add the flour mix and milk to the mixture, alternating like so: flour, milk, flour, milk. Mix well.
3. Divide the batter between 6 bowls, then add the food colouring - as much as you want/need really to get the colour you desire! Then start baking! We baked 3 lots of 2 layers of cake at a time, which took 10 mins each.
4. Once cooked, leave the layers on a wire rack to cool, then begin building and decorating! We used buttercream frosting between each layer, and got some ready-rolled white icing for the outside with silver balls and sugar polka dots!!
I have to admit I was a bit sceptical as to how it would turn out, because the pink, purple and red layers seemed to look very similar, but once constructed and sliced, it looked amazing! It tasted amazing too! The cake itself was soft and moist, I think the buttercream helped aswell!
More pictures will be up asap, and seriously you SHOULD try doing this!!
Rainbow Layer Cake
Makes: one big-ass 6 layer cake!
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 30 mins plus time for decorating
3 cups plain flour
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter
2 1/3 cups sugar (we used caster sugar)
5 large egg whites (we got "posh birds" eggs...they were blue...)
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups milk
gel food colouring (we got dr oetker)
1. Preheat oven to 200C. grease the cake tins with some butter. In a bowl, mix the flour, salt and baking powder and put to one side.
2. Cream together the butter and the sugar. Gradually add the egg whites and vanilla, then mix well. Then add the flour mix and milk to the mixture, alternating like so: flour, milk, flour, milk. Mix well.
3. Divide the batter between 6 bowls, then add the food colouring - as much as you want/need really to get the colour you desire! Then start baking! We baked 3 lots of 2 layers of cake at a time, which took 10 mins each.
4. Once cooked, leave the layers on a wire rack to cool, then begin building and decorating! We used buttercream frosting between each layer, and got some ready-rolled white icing for the outside with silver balls and sugar polka dots!!
Hey Emma it's Kristi, Debbies friend from uni :) Just wanted to say how hungry your blog has made me! I'll be trying out a few of these recipes, thats rainbow cake looks even better than the pictures I've seen of professionally made rainbow cakes! Hope you're all good
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