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A super delicious, moist and wonderful cake with 7 layers of rainbow colours and pink buttercream frosting is perfect for the birthday parties for your little angels.
This rainbow cake was made in September from Gayatri’s cookspot, so today when I started writing the recipe and link to her site I couldn’t find her blog. I know how devastated and unhappy would be as I am feeling sad that I won’t be able to look on her site for eggless cakes. She’s the one stop site for sinful and exotic eggless bakes and for every birthday in my house, I always hoped on her site. I wish she would be able to back up her site soon.
I made this rainbow cake for my little one’s third birthday in September. But somehow this time also couldn’t find the time to click the inside of the cake. When you have 20-30 guest waiting for the cake after cutting it how come you can go in your photo room and click the pictures. There were some pictures on the phone but I couldn’t find them too.
I will update the post if I find the pics on my phone. Anyways I will be making this cake again just to click the insides but maybe in summer.
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Bakethon– Day 8
Dish-Mocha Cake
Source– Gayatri’s Cookspot
Rainbow Cake
Ingredients
For Cakes
- 3 cups cake flour
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup yougurt
- 1 1/2 cup milk
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- few drop each of red, orange, yellow,green,blue and purple food coloring
For buttercream frosting
- 4 cups icing sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2-3 drops red food coloring
Instructions
For Cakes
- Preheat oven to 350°F and grease round cake pans with little butter or place parchment paper.
- In a mixing bowl sift together cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and whisk a couple of times to combine.
- In another mixing bowl beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla, milk and yoghurt and mix to combine.
- Now add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in three-four batches and gently fold in all the ingredients.
- Divide the batter into seven equal parts in bowls and add the rainbow food colours into each bowl until you get desired hue of the colour.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake tins and bake in preheated oven for about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool the cakes on wire rack completely.
Make frosting
- Beat butter in a mixing bowl with electric mixer or kitchen aid until light and fluffy.
- Start adding a cup of sifted icing sugar at a time and beat until the buttercream is pale and reach soft peaks.
- Stir in vanilla and red food colouring and beat again until you get your desired consistency and color.
Assembling the cake.
- Once the cakes are cooled slice off the top layers of the cake using a serrated knife.
- Spoon a little bit of frosting on the cake board and place the first violet layer of cake on the cake board.
- Using an offset spâtula scoop a small amount of frosting into the centre of the cake and spread evenly.
- Add the indigo layer and stack it on top of purple, frost it a with some buttercream and likewise arrange blue, green, yellow, orange and red layers of cake.
- Scoop the frosting on top of layers cake and spread evenly on sides and top. Try doing with little frosting and crumb coat the cake evenly.
- Let the crumb coat layer set in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Frost the cake with remaining buttercream until you get the desired coating. Pipe some flowers if you want and add sprinkles if desired.
- Let the cake rest in the refrigerator and remove only before an hour of cutting the cake.
Notes
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Slice and serve.
Enjoy!!
This is part of the Bake-a-thon 2017
Best Regards,
Sapana Behl
Oh the cake looks awesome sapana, wish you had showed how it looks inside..:)
Such a beautiful cake from the outside, would have really loved an inside view, but can’t do that especially when it is being made for a group of people, right? I though Gayathri’s blog had gone live in between, but I checked today and it’s again unreachable… 🙁
Beautiful cake ! I know it is hard to click while the guests are around . This is the saddest part in a blogger’s life . Glad you could click the complete Cake at least.
oh wow… you made my girls day. see her eyes nearly pop out..in joy
Stunning cake Sapana, hope you will share a slice of this cake to show the rainbow pattern. However beautiful cake there.
Oh that’s stunning Sapna! Love the color…
The cake looks splendid! Love the pretty pink frosting 🙂
OMG, what a gorgeous cake!!! Such a treat for little princesses..
Splendid cake, I do need to try making this one Sapana..awesome
Cake looks fantastic Sapna.. lovely
what a gorgeous cake – I’m speechless!!!
That is such a pretty cake Sapana. I’m sure it must have looked stunning inside as well.
Such a pretty cake sapana! Love hat beautifull color of the frosting!!
Can I make this cake the previous day and store in the refrigerator overnight for it to be used the next day evening? Or it’s better to make it the same day?
Hello Neha, yes you can make the cake a day ahead and refrigerate. Just take it out to room temperature at least before 30 minutes to two hours depending on the temperature.
Hi, I just want to try baking 1 cake with frosting, may I have the recipe please.
Regards, Anbe
Hi, is it possible to have the recipe for 1 cake only. Want to try it out first. Regards, Anne
I have only one cake pan please guide me here how do I bake 7 layers… can cake mix be stored at room temp?
When I baked this cake, I also had one cake tin. So I waited until the first cake was done, removed it from pan, and used the same pan after washing and greasing again. The batter was ok at room temperature as it was cold here. I guess if it is warm at your place you can keep it in the fridge, otherwise, it should be ok at room temperature. Thanks
Really an awesome article that was…keep it up
Thanks