How to make Rainbow Cake

Prep Time : 15 minutes

Cook time : 2 hours

Serve : 4

Level Of Cooking : Medium

Ingredients

Edible colours - few drops

Refined flour (maida) - 1½ cups + for coating

Butter - 1½ cups + for greasing

Castor sugar (caster sugar) - 1½ cups

Eggs - 5

Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon

Baking powder - 1½ teaspoons

Milk - as needed

Sugar syrup - as needed

Whipped cream - as needed

Chocolate candies - as needed

Method

Step 1

Heat the oven to 180ºC. Then you need to grease 7 baking tins with butter and dust some refined flour on them.

Step 2

Cut butter and put into bowl for cake mixer. Add castor sugar and process still light and creamy. The add eggs, one by one, and stir well. Add some vanilla essence with the last egg and stir the mixture again.

Step 3

Put together the refined flour and baking powder into the butter-sugar mixture and fold in gently, making sure not to over mix it. Add some milk and fold in well.

Step 4

Now put the batter into a bowl and weigh on a weighing scale and seperate into 7 equal portions and put into 7 different bowls.

Step 5

Add few drops of an edible colour to the batter in one bowl and mix it all together. Add a few drops of another colour to the batter in another bowl and mix it well. This way use up all the colours to make 7 different coloured batters. If you do not have a particular colour, then prepare it by mixing 2 colours.

Step 6

Put the coloured batters, one by one into each greased baking tin and spread evenly. Keep the baking tins in the preheated oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. Remove the tins out and let them cool down to room temperature.

Step 7

Remove them from the tin and slice the crust on the top of each cake.

Step 8

Spread some whipped cream on the base of a turntable and place the cakes in the order of a rainbow colour. So first place a violet cake, dab it with some sugar syrup, cover it with some whipped cream and repeat the process keeping in mind the rainbow colours.

Step 9

Cut the hard sides of the cakes and cover the rainbow cake with whipped cream on top as well as all the other sides around. 

Step 10

Cut the cake in half and slowly separate the two halves so that you can have a look at the different colour layers. Slice the cake into pieces and it is ready to be served.

Bon Appetit!