Rainbow Cake Recipe
Magician’s Hat Birthday Cake
I’ve been working up to making a rainbow cake for the last six months or so. Gradually the cakes I’ve made have got more and more colours and layers. When Molly said she wanted a magician party I knew exactly what had to go in the middle – what can be more magical than cutting a cake open to find bright rainbow colours?
I couldn’t find a really easy recipe for rainbow cake so had to create one using my recipe for an angel cake. As long as you have a lot of pans it’s actually an easy cake to make, honest. I iced it to look like a magician’s hat but really it would be great with a plain icing, it even looks good on its own.
Ingredients:
16oz (450g) butter
28 oz (800g) sugar
8 eggs
4 tsps vanilla essence
1 pound (900g) of self raising flour
6 tsp baking powder
500 ml (2 cup) milk
1 tsp food colouring: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet (you may need to mix these)
What we did:
Mix the flour and baking powder together. Sift into the butter sugar and eggs.
Add the milk.
Put into separate bowls and add the food colouring.
This is the magical part.
Pour into seven lined greased cake tins.
I was making our cake into a magician’s hat so the red is in a slightly bigger cake tin than the others. This is because it formed the brim of the hat.
Bake for 30 mins, 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
Once the cake has cooled, ice using butter icing. I left off the red layer as this needed to be covered with fondant icing first.
I covered the cake with fondant icing. Then used a brush to paint it with black food colouring, I did originally try to mix the food colouring into the icing but just made a mess and the icing turned more grey than black. To decorate the brim I covered the red layer with fondant icing, added a layer of butter icing and placed it carefully on top. It was not much bigger than the other layers and so they supported its weight – phew!
it cut some stars with a cookie cutter out of the remaining fondant icing and stuck them on the side.
Into the top of the cake we had some birthday candles and some indoor sparklers. The sparklers were a bit disappointing because they took ages to light – a bit of an anticlimax.
It’s a bit scary to hold a magic cake too!
rainbow cake washing up
After you’ve made the cake you’re left with some very pretty rainbow coloured washing up!
After all that hard work look what a lovely treat you have at the end of it.
I’ve linked to: Fun Sparks, It’s Playtime, Happly lil’s baking
That cake is absolutely amazing!
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Possibly the most impressive cake I’ve ever seen made at home by a non-professional baker. I only say this as there were once some giant cake creations on Oprah which were also impressive. WOW!
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Oh thanks, that’s a really lovely thing to say.
Love all the colors in the cake – how FUN! Thanks for linking up at TGIF!
Beth =-)
What a lovely cake! Did it taste as good as it looks?
Thanks – it did taste good, although I didn’t get very much of it – typical.
Well done this is awesome! I’m not sure I could tackle a rainbow cake!! x
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If you have lots of pans it really isn’t that bad. It looks so cool its worth it.
WOW! that is awesome! and looks yummy.
Thanks for linking up, and I hope Molly had a great day. xx
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Wow, your rainbow cake turned out beautifully – and I love how vibrant your colours are!! Amazing, and thanks for sharing at Happy lil ❤’s are baking!
Yes I did use rather a lot of food colouring – tee hee!
Have just made this and it looks fab so far! Need to put the layers together and decorate now!
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