Flavoured Rainbow Cake Recipe

Why not make my easy rainbow flavoured rainbow cake pops and truffles.

Flavoured rainbow cake recipe.

I like to use my grandmother s homemade buttermilk vanilla cake for this recipe. A rainbow cake that tastes like a rainbow. Then i added the eggs and self raising flour and split the mixture between three bowls. Butter 2 x 20cm round sandwich tins and line the bases with baking parchment.

Tip all the sponge ingredients apart from the food colouring into a mixing bowl then beat with an electric whisk until smooth. Rainbow cake is a multi layered or multi colour cake recipe that looks amazing and. Step by step i own three 8 cake tins so i did three layers of the cake at a time i started by creaming the butter and sugar together with the lemon zest. Of course if vanilla is your thing then you can easily make this cake a vanilla rainbow cake too.

Can t wait to. They are super easy and great to make with kids. Most recipes i ve seen online for rainbow cakes use a couple of box cake mixes to make the process easier. You just need to set aside some time to bake three sets of sponges then decorate your showstopper and i ve made sure there s plenty of icing so no danger of running short before the end.

Heat the oven to 180c 160c fan gas 4. Each bowl holds 15 ounces of cake batter. Spread a thin layer of icing around the sides of the cake and chill until firm. Continue layering this way following the colours of the rainbow.

I used a kitchen scale to weigh mine out so they would all be equal. In large bowl beat cake mix water oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds then on medium speed 2 minutes scraping bowl occasionally. Spread the remaining icing over the top and sides of the cake. Bake according to the recipe but stop before adding decoration or icing if called for.

To make our rainbow cake layers all you have to do is mix up your batter follow the recipe below and then divide your batter into 6 bowls evenly. Flavoured with sweet sour raspberry warming orange zingy lemon nutty pistachio fruity blueberry and fragrant lavender. A rainbow cake has long been one of my favourites for a special occasion it looks so impressive yet it s a relatively simple process. Thank you for such a wonderful recipe.