It's a colourful day! Rainbow cake makes us HaPpy.....so very happy !!!
For 4 layers, I used:
- 330g granulated sugar
- 150g softened butter
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 155ml milk + 2 tsp vinegar, sit for 5 mins (substitute for buttermilk)
- 13g butter + 30ml milk, whisk to combine (substitute for heavy whipping cream)
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 + 1/16 tsp salt
- food colouring, used dark orange, yellow, green and blue
- 87g softened cream cheese
- 85g softened butter
- 1 1/2 cup icing sugar
- 1/2 + 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
*used 7" and 8" round pans, baked 2 rounds.
Instructions copied from http://divascancook.com/easy-rainbow-cake-recipe-from-scratch/
- Preheat oven to 325 F, 170 C
- Generously grease and flour 6 (9-inch cake pans.) I only had 3 pans so I had to bake in two rounds.
- In a large bowl cream together sugar and butter.
- Mix in eggs until thoroughly incorporated.
- Mix in vanilla extract, buttermilk and heavy cream.
- Mix in half of the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- When mixture is combined, mix in the rest of the flour.
- Divide the batter into six bowls (about 1 cup of batter per bowl)
- Add food coloring to each bowl to create a vibrant red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. (see note on how to make colors)
- Pour each colored batter into the prepared pans and spread out into an even layer. (layers will be thin)
- Bake for 10-15 minutes or until center is set. Do not overbake. Keep a close eye on them as some ovens run hotter and these are thin layers.
- Remove from oven and let cakes cool in the pan until pans are warm enough to touch.
- Run a spatula around the edges of the pans to loosen the cake and then very carefully remove the cakes from the pans.
- Place on a cooling rack and cool completely.
- Meanwhile make the cream cheese frosting by creaming together cream cheese and butter.
- Mix in powdered sugar and vanilla.
- Place the violet layer down first and frost. Followed by the blue layer, green layer, yellow layer, orange layer and finally the red layer. (frost between each layer)
- Place a thin coat of the icing on the cake to create a crumb coat. This will make the cake even all around and seal any loose crumbs.
- Once the crumb coat is set, finish frosting the cake.
- Slice & serve!
- (To create more defined layers of frosting between the colors, place the frosted cake in the fridge to allow the cream cheese frosting to firm up before slicing)
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