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There are not enough exclaimation marks in the world to convey my excitement for rainbow cake. I first came across this awesome version over at sweetest blog ever Sweetapolita. I also came across this great version by Whisk Kid which I think is the original. I wanted my cake to have a more normal cake to frosting ratio though so I set about making what I now realise may be the tallest rainbow cake ever!!
I’ll tell you a secret – I was actually kinda intimidated by making this cake – I first saw it a while ago but I wasn’t sure I had the skills to pull it off well. In actual fact, making this cake was extremely easy and hassle free! Its a simplified version of the american rainbow cake recipes I found, which tended to have swiss meringue frosting (let’s not talk about my attempt to make that) and use either box cake mixes or homemade versions that were similar to white cake – and used A LOT of egg whites.
I decided to make a UK version, using a standard victoria sponge recipe and cream cheese frosting. It worked a treat.
– You’ll need –
- 350g self raising flour
- 350g soft soft butter
- 350g caster or light brown caster sugar
- 6 free range eggs (I tend to go for happy eggs)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- up to 40ml semi-skimmed milk
I baked my cakes in small, disposable tin foil ‘flan cases’ that I found in Wilkinson’s (10 for a £1). Supermarkets also increasingly sell disposable cake cases, in loaf and other shapes. But don’t worry if you can’t find anything like this, you can just use regular cake tins – depending on how many you own, you’ll need to cook the cakes in stages (if you own three, two stages isn’t too much hassle, if you only own two cake tins I would consider buying/borrowing another one).
– What colours will you need for your Rainbow Cake? –
Food colouring! But not just any food colouring. NOT the liquid ones of your childhood, although they do seem to be phasing those out now in favour of gel versions that you can get even in the supermarket. The ones I use are Sugarflair and Americolor and I get them from this little exclusive bakery supplies shop – you might have heard of it, its called eBay!
I love getting my gel colours from eBay because they’re cheap (cheaper or at least the same price as any baking supply shops I’ve visited) with free postage, plus its just easy and convenient. To make the cake, you’ll need these colours
Red – Christmas Red by Sugarflair
Orange -Melon + Christmas Red, both by Sugarflair
Yellow -Melon by Sugarflair
Green -Mint green by Sugarflair
Blue -Baby blue by Sugarflair
Purple – Electric purple by Americolour – I have tried and failed to get a bright purple colour using sugarflair (grape violet which is the only purple they do). If you want a bright purple, I recommend getting the americolor version.
The Amercolour was from an American seller who combined postage, so they worked out to cost about £3 each whereas the Sugarflair colours cost about £2.50 each. If you haven’t used gel colours before, this might seem expensive but they go a looooong way – and last forever.
For the cream cheese frosting, you’ll need –
- 100g butter, soft
- 250g cream cheese, at room temperature
- 600g icing sugar, sifted
Note – when I decided to make this cake, I reasoned that I would need A LOT of cake so I doubled the standard victoria sponge recipe, and produced the mahoosivest rainbow cake ever seen by man. If you’d prefer your rainbow cake to have thinner layers and be less skyscraper like, just divide this recipe in two, for the cake and the frosting.
First, preheat your oven to gas mark 4/170 degrees/360 degrees farenheit and mix up your cake batter in the usual way – cream your butter and sugar until combined, add eggs one at a time followed by a little of the flour and mix well before adding remaining flour and vanilla extract. If your mix is a little thick as mine was, add up to 40ml of semi-skimmed milk – adding a tablespoon at a time and stopping when you get to a consistency that you’re happy with.
Next, divide your mix into 6 bowls (including your original bowl) to do your colours. I divided my mix by eye, not bothering to weigh my mixture and divide it exactly equally.
Drizzle on some of your red gel colour and mix in. Keep adding and mixing a little until you have the vibrant shade you want. Its actually very hard to go overboard with gel colours, but don’t add too much at once (not more than a quarter of a teaspoon). Ten minutes and an aching arm later, you’ll have a beautiful rainbow of cake batters!
Pop them into the oven and keep a close eye on them – you don’t want them to get overly browned. I rotated my cakes on the oven shelves throughout the cooking time (mine took around 20 minutes total), taking them out as soon as a skewer to the centre came out clean.
I can’t lie to you – rainbow cake is messy! But its definitely worth it.
When your cakes are cool, its time to stack and decorate! The picture above pretty much shows you what not to do, since I put way too much frosting between the layers, resulting in my rainbow cake going all leaning tower of pisa on me. It was quite a terrifying time. Don’t be like me – put just a thin layer of frosting between the layers – just enough to stick them together!
Apply a crumb coat and then put your cake into the fridge (I had to remove a shelf!) to set and firm up for about 30 minutes.
After thirty minutes, apply a second coat of frosting and then add sprinkles or decorate your cake to your hearts content!
This cake would be super duper awesome for a kids birthday party…. especially if you kept the rainbow part a secret… can you imagine?
Rainbow cake makes me so happy. Oh and did I mention that rainbow cake is just the beginning? Check out these amazing ombre cakes which use exactly the same method.
Happy baking!
x Kerry
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Hi Kerry
Just double checking the ingredients to use I.e 350g butter, do I need to double that? Only you said you needed a lot of cake mixture so you doubled the recipe compared to a standard Victoria sponge.
Thanks
Emily
Hello! I’ve already doubled them here so follow this recipe 🙂 This will make a good size 6, 7 or 8 inch cake.
That’s great thank you. One more question….. My kids have asked for chocolate buttercream. Is that an OK alternative and can you suggest the ingredients and amounts for the chocolate buttercream please? Thank you again Emily
Hi Emily, Chocolate would work great, as it sets really stiff. I’d recommend a chocolate cream cheese frosting like this one – I can’t work out the amounts for you, so I’d recommend you just get plenty of ingredients and make more if you need more. http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/18769/cream-cheese-chocolate-frosting.aspx
Hi Kerry, any suggestions on which colours to use to do a pastel version rainbow cake? Thanks!
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Hi Kerry.
Thank you so much for this, was making the good food one and its rubbish so needed to find a good recipe. All the review look good so about to start, one quick question how big here you cake mould:/foil flan cases?
Thanks
Sarah
Hey Sarah, the one I used are 6 inches which is why the cake is so tall. If you can find say 8 inch ones, you’d have a thinner cake more like a lot of the ones you see online, but 6 was all I could find 🙂
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Hey! I just made this last night. I ran out of icing sugar so left it over night in tin foil and this morning is sooo moist and so yummy (i had a sneak taste) i can’t wait to get the frosting on, such a great recipe. So easy. Thank you!
Thanks Laura! So happy it turned out great for you 🙂
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thank you so much – made this yesterday for a friend’s birthday and was blown away by the collective gasp from the room as the birthday boy pulled the first slice out! it looked utterly spectacular and was so simple to make. I bought the sugarflair colours on your recommendation and am hugely impressed as all the other ones I’ve tried have been really disappointing. thanks again!
Thank you so much for your lovely comment Simon! I’m so happy your cake was a success 😀
Hiya Kerry, I did the same as one of the other ladies and doubled it and it was spectacular. I’ve since done this a few times but stuck to the smaller size one. I’m known as the rainbow cake girl.
Great cake looks surprisingly simple. Yikes I said it!!!!! now it will all go boobies up!!!!!!! What size are these cake tins 8 or 10 inch
Hi Lisa – these wilko’s disposable ones are actually just 6 inches across – one of the reasons my cake is so tall! You can use a wider case, but 6 inches was all I could find in disposable, and I don’t have 6 cake tins!
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Thanks for this recipe, works wonderfully! 🙂 I doubled the quantities as I think the pie cases I bought were larger than the ones you used, I have ended up with one gigantic delicious rainbow cake! BTW – genius idea using tinfoil pie cases.
So kind of you to say, thank you!! Your rainbow cake must have been ENORMOUS! My mix would barely fit in the food mixer!
Wow wow wow 😀
They normally cook quite evenly but the silicone ones are better in m opinion as the top usually cooks quicker than the base! Mine has an insert for the base which creates a dip in the middle for filling! Think I might have found a recipe in a certain cake magazine if you want me to email it to you? My Instagram is elouiserosetaylor!
Thanks Elouise – that would be fab! I have requested to follow you on Instagram now 🙂
Hi Kirsten here again! I do not have that much knowledge on food gels. I have been looking on ebay at them and I am now confused!!!! Please can you tell me if there is any difference between Sugarflair Food Colouring Paste Gel Colours and Sugarflair Food Colouring Gel Paste Icing Colour.
Hi Kirsten, I explain why gel colours are better in this post – and there’s also a link to the sugarflair gel colours that I use in there. Not sure what the difference is between gel paste and paste gel, but the ones I’ve used are on the link. Hope that helps!
Thank U. Read your post and have now ordered my gels. Will let you know if all the kids are impressed with my baking next week!!!
Good luck!
Hi Kerry and Kristen! I made a rainbow cake based on this recipe’s quanities (6 egg cake) and made some tweaks. But with the food gels/paste – they are the same thing. I went for Classikool colours as they were cheaper but exactly the same as sugarflair. I spend ages choosing colours as it is so hard to tell what they will be like, but I was happy with the selection in the end! Daffodil Yellow, Neon Red, Neon Green, Neon purple and Baby Blue. Each layer was a bright vibrant colour.
Thanks! Where did you get your Classikool colours from?
Amazon!
Ah great, will check it out!
Hi Kerry. My daughter, who turns 10 on 11th April has asked me to make her a rainbow cake for her party. Found your exciting receipe, which I can’t wait to make. Just puzzled over the food colourings – you say NOT to use the liquid dyes, why is this? Why are the gels better? Thanks Kirsten
My new favourite website! Cannot wait to try the cookie dough brownies, Strawberry Milkshake and Coconut cupcakes! I have made this Rainbow cake for my boyfriends birthday and it is amazing! Thank you so much as I couldn’t find any UK recipes, you saved me!!!! The layers didnt rise properly as i’m having an oven problem but the finished result is below! Thank you so much xxx
http://instagram.com/elouiserosetaylor
Thank you Elouise, what a lovely comment! Will follow you on Instagram to check out the cakes!
It was a huge success! Not sure if you managed to see the picture?
I was also wondering if you have ever used the Giant Cupcake moulds? (The big brand is ‘Big Top Cupcake’) I have one and normally just double a recipe for a Victoria sponge which seems to be a bit hit and miss! Wondering if you’ve ever tried it or created a recipe? As all I can find is American box mix recipes and where’s the fun in that?!
I haven’t yet – I need to follow you on Instagram which I will do, then I can see all your cakes!
I do have a mould but have never used it yet. It’s a silicone one and baking that much cake in one seems inherently a bit risky/hit and miss to me. What’s the issue – not done in the middle but overdone on the outside?
They normally cook quite evenly but there is a l
thank you so much for the recipe. made this for a friend’s bachelorette party earlier today and it was a hit! my cake may have leaned over did but it still turned out great! the small pans are a good idea too loved how cute the cake turned out.
thank you so much. xo.
YAY! So happy it was a success! What a great friend you are making that for the party 😀
Go team rainbow cake!
Thank you so much for this recipe! I am not very good at baking but when I saw the rainbow cakes I knew my daughter would love one for her 3rd birthday. I did a search and was so relieved to find your UK version as converting a US recipe was way beyond me!! I pretty much followed your recipe but used much wider tins so my cake ended up a lot shorter with thinner layers.
The reaction I got from everyone at the party was amazing, and I have had lots of appreciation over at Instagram too. I pinned this post to my pinterest board and have directed people to look at this post if they have asked!
Thank you so much for making my daughters birthday cake such a success!!
hope the link below works!
I can see it, well done it looks amazing!!!! So glad it went well and everyone liked it 😀
Thanks so much for letting me know
X Kerry
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Thanks for your recipe. I used the same amounts but in 8inch tins so it wasn’t so high. Worked fab and everyone impressed.
Thanks so much Lisa! I’d love to see a picture of it?
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This is amazing – I’m going to save this page and try to do this for my mum for Mothers Day! I’m hopeless at baking, but I hope I can manage it.
Thank you! Let me know if you need any tips, I promise its a cinch – just use the gel colours and use disposable cases to bake them in.
Thanks. 🙂 I was worrying I couldn’t get the gel colours in time, but I just saw they sell Mr Oetker gel colours in Co Op near me. So should be okay.
Fab! I haven’t tried those ones, let me know whether they give you a good rainbow!
Yikes, I’m making this cake today… but I don’t know how to make the icing? Can you help? Or link me to a website that will show me how to make it for this cake? Emergency!! lol
Hello… Not sure what you mean? The recipe for the cream cheese icing I used is in the post
I have all the ingredients but I really am hopeless at everything to do with baking. So I don’t know how to actually make the icing. But I guess if I look up ‘cream cheese frosting’ I’ll find the instructions somewhere. I’m nervous about this! lol
If you search on my blog there’s a post just about making cream cheese frosting – make sure the butters soft, you sift the icing sugar and don’t overbeat once you’ve added the cream cheese.
Hmm, well I wouldn’t recommend the Dr Oetker colours. I had to use LOADS in each mixture and still didn’t get the gorgeous vibrant colours on your photos! They’re out of the oven now, and they look okay, just not bright enough. Going to look for those icing instructions now. Thanks.
What a shame! I’d love to see a picture of the cake when you’re done
Hi, I want to make this cake but all I have is paste colours….are they much different from the gel ones?
The cake looks amazing I can’t wait to try it out!!
Hi Gem! Gel/paste are interchangeable terms – they’re the same! Sugarflair call them paste although they are a gel consistency 🙂 Good luck with the cake!
Thank you 🙂 fingers crosse I get my baking mojo back by the weekend. Three cakes have gone wrong on me over the past few days 😦 I have lost my touch!!!!!
Haha, it happens to everyone! Give me a shout on twitter if you need any tips
I made this cake for the staff bake off competition and it won!!
I halved your recipe but I used a 6 inch cake tins so the layers came out pancake thin… I thought it was a disaster but it turned out that people were actually impressed by the thin layers! I think the surprise factor is the best bit.
Thanks very much Kerry!
Also, I used Dr Oetker gel colours from Tesco. Had to use the whole tube for each layer, but the colours deepened in the oven and came out lovely and vibrant.
Wonderful, good to know! Thanks a lot!
Wow, amazing!!!! Yeah, a lot of people love thin layer cakes, even ones with layers like crepes like this one! http://www.marthastewart.com/356131/darkest-chocolate-crepe-cake
Congratulations on winning the bake off, so proud!! If you have any pictures I’d love to see them 🙂
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Hi there! Thank you for posting the recipes. They look really awesome, I’m planning to make this on my cousin’s birthday. Can I ask your opinion about using the Dr. Oetker food gel coloring instead? Will the colors be as beautiful? Thank you very much! xx
Hi there! I wouldn’t recommend using anything except gel colouring, and definitely NOT Dr Oetker – (unless they’ve started doing gel colours?) – they’re colours don’t give vibrant colours and taste HORRID. Asda do gel colours in their supermarkets (home 2 bake range) and Silver Spoon also have a few, although I’m not sure if they have the full range of colours you’d need.
Overall my advice would be, gel colours all the way! They give great results every time and what you can buy in the supermarket doesn’t on the most part, plus supermarkets are unpredictable in terms of the range of colours they carry.
Thank you very much for the reply! Do the home2bake and silver spoon colours give nice rainbow colours as well? 🙂 x
I’ve only used sugarflair and americolor to make rainbow cakes so I can’t say, sorry.
Thank you SO much for blogging this recipe! I have been searching for an English version (instead of using cups), as all the Americian ones seem to use egg whites and sprite (yes, the drink!). I pondered over the classic sponge I use and just adding gel colour, but wasn’t sure if it would work. Now I know! What does it taste like? Does it still turn out light and moist? I always have used marg instead of butter. Do you think it will make a difference to colour/taste? Oh and thanks for the tin tip!
No worries, glad I could help! The egg whites in the American versions always put me off too which is why I developed this simple version – its just a big Victoria sponge cake, doubled!
In terms of taste, it tastes like standard ‘cake’ really! but with the added deliciousness of the cream cheese frosting. It works out quite light and moist, about the same as a standard victoria sponge. I don’t think marg vs butter should make a difference hopefully 🙂
Thank you for replying! Regarding the gel colouring Dr Oetker does do gel now – they are in tubes for £1.29 each. I saw them in Waitrose.
Worth a try then! Let me know what you think of them and I can add it to my post 🙂
hi dere! i made dis & d family luves it! thks!
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Hi there. I went to Wilkinson’s to get the flan cases but the only ones that they stock look rather small to make any decent sized cake. I’m just wondering what diameter the ones you recommended from Wilkinson’s were?
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Thank you so much for this recipe! I wasn’t confident enough to adapt a US recipe myself, and this worked brilliantly. If you’d like to see how I got on you can see some pictures here http://www.jenniferslittleworld.com/2013/01/harrys-birthday-party-and-my-rainbow.html
Yay, thanks Jennifer, so happy you had success with the recipe! Your cake looks wonderful, well done!
Hi, this cake looks fab & I’m going to make it for my daughters 6th birthday party next month, can you tell me how many it will feed please? Im going to need it to feed at least 25 people, so if I need to make it bigger than what you have can you suggest what measurements would be best to use? Thanks lots & lots in advance 😀 xx
Thanks Amy! I’d suggest making multiple cakes as you couldn’t make this cake much bigger without it collapsing – maybe multiple rainbow cakes, or a pink/purple ombre cake with your daughters favourite colour. Or one rainbow cake and then buy other cakes – it would be a lot of work otherwise!
I didn’t think I’d be able to go much bigger, oh well I’ll just have to make 2, least then I can pre-cut 1 for the party bags and keep 1 for the party itself! 🙂 Thanks for getting back to me xx
UNLESS you tripled the mix and then did large layers of each colour in sheet pans, and then cut into three rectangular cakes. That’s the only way I can think of to do it 🙂
Thanks, I might try that, if not I’ll just make 2, and I’ll have cupcakes aswell so should be enough! Can I ask what cream cheese you used please? Whenever I make this frosting it never seems to thicken! xx
I made this for my best friend’s 18th birthday party on Friday and she absolutely loved it, everyone was screaming when she cut into it and discovered the rainbow! I think my flan cases were a little too wide so the layers were quite thin but overall the cake was mahoosive and it still worked out a treat, thank you soso much for this recipe and I can’t wait to try out some your other ones,
Heloise 🙂
p.s here’s a shot of one of my mates eating it, http://instagram.com/p/UpN998EE1D/
WOW! well done Heloise (what a beautiful name) – the cake looks awesome!! I actually look the thinner layers, it looks great 🙂 xx
Hi Kerry, what is the size/inch of this rainbow cake? I would like to use your recipe/measurement and would want to make sure it is enough for 6 layers, not too much/no leftover. Thanks !
Hi Stephanie, it was 6 inches across, hence why its so tall. You could make the same cake in a larger in, the layers would just be thinner and make a wider cake.
Hi Kerry
I tried to dye some cake batter yesterday and it didn’t work. Although the batter looked vibrant, the baked cakes were very dull. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Hey Sarah! Sorry to hear it didn’t work well. Firstly, I’d say you need to use the sugarflair gel colours, and you need to keep adding to the batter until the colour is REALLY vibrant. Then, when baking, move the cakes around in the oven so that none of them get too browned – in fact you don’t want the tops of the layers to be browned at all! Since they’re thin, they will cook, and brown quick so keep a close eye on them. Hope that helps!
love this cake can i ask is there a reason the liquid food colouring can’t be used or would they be fine i have every colour in the liquid food colouring should i bother buying the gel form ? thanks xx
Hi Vanessa! Thanks for the cake love! Two things re liquid colouring – the first is you just can’t get the vibrancy of colour, so your cake wouldn’t be nearly as bright and vivid. Second is that you would need to add a lot – up to a bottle – and therefore the taste would come through in the finished cake. I find the taste unpleasant but that may just be me. If you live near an asda, they do gel colours for very reasonable prices in their home2bake range.
Hi there. I’m just wondering by how much the cakes rise in the oven typically using the flan cases you suggested? Presumably for a shallower cake, I could just reduce the amount of cake mixture per case and cook for less time? The cake looks fab and I’m going to do it for my son’s 4th birthday.
Hi Amanda, the cake doesn’t rise more than probably about 20-25% in the oven, as long as you divide it equally between the 6 cases and flatten the mixture – you don’t want it to be too full, since when the layers are nice and flat you’ll get a flat cake that’s easy to cook.
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Hi, thank you for sharing these lovely rainbow cake. You’ve inspired me and thats why i was able to create my own version which is rainbow chiffon cake. It was yummy! I love baking too. I love your blogsite. I’ve just started recently with wordpress but im
Not that good yet but im getting there 🙂 good job kerry! Well done and thank.
Thanks for your lovely comment! Glad you liked my recipe 🙂
thank you so much for this!! I jist made it for my daughters 2nd birthday and everyone gasped! But not only that everyone commented that the cake was delicious! It really was as well! The only difference i made was also made rainbow frosting with the dies as it was to much fun to not try! Came out lovely. I’m happy to send you a pic! X
Aw!! thanks so much for your lovely comment Abbie! 🙂 So happy your daughter liked it. I would LOVE to see a picture – you can email me at miss underscore kerry underscore edwards @ yahoo dot co dot uk 🙂
I made this for a charity cake sale at work today (along with a lot of other treats) and I have to say it got the best reaction to any cake I’ve ever made! Really thrilled with it but it not only looks amazing it tastes fantastic. We raised over £200 and I’ll definitely be making it again. Thanks for the recipe! x
How wonderful! Thanks for reading my blog and for your lovely comment ! So happy you raised lots of money and liked the cake 🙂 x
Made my own rainbow cake today. Glad I saw your recipe and got myself some gel colours – amazed by how vibrant they are. I just hope it tastes as good as it looks now!
Well done Anna! I’m sure it tastes great
hi i am just wondering how the liquid color food coloring would come out within the cake would i have to put a lot in and how many would this fed? thanks i really want to mkae these
Hi Katie – you need to use gel food colouring to make the cake this bright as I mention in the post – you can buy it from ebay for about £2.50 a pot. I would say it would feed 8 greedy people!
Thank you Kerry this recipe worked a treat for me. I made it yesterday, we cut into it today at tea time and all the layers came out perfectly. The frosting is a touch too sweet for us though, do you think it would be ok to cut down a little on the sugar for it without compromising its stability? I want to make this cake again for a big family party coming up as I know the kids will love it!
Hey Laura – glad you liked the cake!! You could definitely add less sugar to the frosting, just add it gradually and keep mixing, until you reach a sweetness you’re happy with, then chill it to let it firm up. Enjoy!
This is such an amazing cake! I wanted to make one myself and just uploaded it to my blog if you want to check it out…yours was a great help as i was orried about vibrancy of colours without using USA colours…thanks so much…love your blog!!!
Zobird xxx
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It’s beautiful Kerry!
Thank you! I do love rainbows so, especially in cake form!
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hiya going to try to make this for my nieces 2nd birthday just woundering do the cakes come out of the foil cases ok?
hey Laura! Yep they do come out really easily, just make sure you grease them as you normally would. I like the dr oetker spray on stuff.
great such a god idea i hate washing up thankyou 🙂 x
Mine just didn’t rise at all… what did I do so wrong? I have 6 coloured biscuits now!!
Hello, I made both recipes, yours with sponge cake and the original one ) as seen in Martha Steward, and I can definitely confirm that with sponge cake takes 10’. Its soft, sweet, and really tasty.
I wanted a really big cake 25-35 person so I used
500gr flour self raising
500 gr sugar
500 butter
10 biological eggs
2 tea spoons vanilla extract
And instead of milk I used 100-150 buttermilk (as we use for red velvet cake)
For the inside frosting I used
150 mascarpone cheese
300 Philadelphia cheese
And icing sugar, about 200- 250 gr (I didn’t want it too sweet
For the covering I used nice fresh Whipped cream in which I also but some icing sugar
Thanks Cara – great to hear you liked it! Interesting idea about using some marscapone in the frosting – will have to try that!
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Also when you make your own frosting like a buttercream or vanilla or whatever if you get a clear vanilla extract instead of normal vanilla extract it will give you that bright white color
My sister and I are about to try this tomorrow for my dad’s birthday cake, in her new tiny little flat and make shift utensils! Wish us luck :-} !
Good luck! Give me a shout on twitter if you need any advice 🙂
This turned out so great 🙂 I may just have to make it for my husband’s upcoming birthday!
Hi Kerry, this cake looks amazing! I like to think that I’m pretty good at baking but I have to admit this cake intimidates me! I’ve decided to make it for my birthday at the end of the month. I’m hoping that people are surprised by it. I’ve got some gel colours from Morrisons but have ordered the purple from Americolor. Here’s hoping the Morrison colours are as vibrant. Loving your foodie blog, I’d love to have one of my own. Just wondering if you’ve tried Hummingbird cake. It’s my all time favourite and it’s popularity seems to be rising of late. If you’d like to try my recipe I’d happily share it :-). Please keep up the great blog
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Ok…inspired to have a go now….Have always been hesitant as couldn’t work out how much cake mix to do….and loving the top tip,of disposable tins!! Off to wilkinsons now…..
Awesome, let me know how you get on! They have a whole range of disposable bakeware, very tempting it is!
Hi,
This looks awesome and I can’t wait to try it. Please can you tell me what size cake tins you used?
Thanks Nichol! I used Wilkinson disposable tin foil ‘flan cases’ which I believe were 7 inches across, so quite a tall, slender cake. You can use a bigger cake tin if you like, the layers will just come out thinner but you’ll get a wider cake.
Thanks, Kerry
love this cake! did you use a specific type of butter because my cakes usually turn yellow-y? thanks
Thanks Zara! Not sure if you mean the cake or the frosting, in terms of the cake, the gel colours will turn the batter into bright colours no matter what type of butter you start out with. Re the frosting, in order to get a whiter cream cheese frosting, you can use a lighter butter such as Lurpack. I normally use kerrygold or tesco everyday value unsalted butter.
x Kerry
This looks great, and not to complicated 🙂 and thank you for the tip about the flan cases! My daughter is having a rainbow party on Sunday I will let you know how the cake turns out.
Regards Kathrine
Aw a rainbow party, how ace! I would love one of those one day 🙂 Good luck, give me a shout if you have any questions!
Hi. Wondering how stable this was? You didn’t use cake boards or dowels, right? I am planning on making a 7×7 cubed cake next month and I can’t decide if I need boards and skewers? It is going to have ganache and fondant covering the whole cake. So I was planning on the extra support but this just looks so amazing when cut!
Karen
Hey Karen, thanks for your comment! To be honest it never occured to me to use dowls or anything since I’ve seen lots of similar cakes around the interwebs. I think generally if you’re making a layer cake of all the same size of cake its fine, whereas you need support when you’re baking different tiers of differently sized cakes. I’m sure your cake will work out fine, especially as you’re using ganache as its super sticky and sets really quick. For extra security, you could build your cake one layer at a time, building from the bottom and adding ganache between the layers so that the bottom layers are glued on before you add the top ones. Thanks for visiting my blog!
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Thank you for this, it’s just what I wanted! I’ve been wanting to bake a rainbow cake for my cousin’s birthday but apart from a basic idea of baking a normal sponge and adding food colouring, I didn’t have much further clue of how to go about it! All the other recipes I’d seen were very American. I’ll take your advice and buy the gel food colourings from eBay so I can replicate your beautiful rainbow creation! Does the icing on the outside dry solid or stay soft? I’m going to have to take my cake a couple of hours car journey so I don’t want it to be too squidgy.. Thanks again x
Thanks for your comment Sharliee! Glad I could help 🙂 The cream cheese icing gets firm to the touch after a while so you can safely take it on a car journey – I transported my cake on the bus! Just make sure its had a few hours to set before the journey, and protect it with some tin foil tents (that aren’t touching the cake) or inside a larger cake tin / even just a cardboard box! Good luck! x
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This is amazing…. it looks like a massive job, I’ve never seen anything quite like it!!
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kerry, no, oh my days! this looks INCREDIBLE!!!!!!! hahaha LOVE it. seriously, this is epic!!! 🙂
thanks Edward!! I love it!
I love this! I definitely want to make one. 🙂 Yours look perfect!
This is Fabulous! Very well executed and I like the idea of using the foil tins to bake in
-E
Thanks for linking to my Rainbow Tie-Dye cake! Your layers look amazing. I definitely admire your patience. Mine ended up tie dye mostly because I didn’t want the hassle of icing all those layers. Looks great!
Thanks Alyson! It was fiddly but worth it in the end!
This looks amazing Kerry. My sugar is up just looking at it.