ingredients for the buttercream:
75g unsalted butter
100g icing sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
method:
pre-heat the oven to 180oC/160oC (fan) and grease 2 sandwich tins
cream the butter and sugar together until pale and creamy
add the flour and eggs and mix well until all combined
divide the mixture into as many bowls as you have food colourings
add the food colouring to each bowl and mix well
then put half of each different coloured cake mix into each sandwich tin
once cake mix is in each tin I took a knife and swirled the colours together to give a marbled effect
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| its a bit swirly whirly |
bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes until cooked through
Make the butter cream by mixing all the ingredients together to form a smooth paste
once the sponges are completely cooled add the butter cream to one half and then sandwich them together
I had a little helper assist me with making the cake!
The rainbow swirly effect makes for a very pretty sponge and every slice has a different rainbow pattern
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| its like psychedelic maaaaan! :0 |
Thank you xx
Mmmm pretty cake!
Yey you made one! Thanks for the link.
I use colour gels for mine as I found they were better than food colouring.
Love the picture of Burton!
Looks like he had great fun making his cake, something about the green and blue sponge makes me not want to eat them, but the red looks yummy.
This looks awesome. My boys love putting the food colouring into cakes, we have made so many colourful cakes. this looks particularly nice. x
That looks amazing. I tried making one once, it was a huge FAIL CAKE! I think I put in too much food colouring. Might give it another go.
That looks fab! I once tried to make red car shaped cakes and the outside just went all brown like normal cake, I was so disappointed. Your swirly cake looks great though. xx
Let’s start a rainbow revolution!
I attempted a rainbow cake last year with food colouring & it failed miserably; somone recommended food colour gels instead & that’s what I used for my cake – they are amazing as you only need a tiny amount to achieve really vibrant colours.
yay to a rainbow cake revolution!! thanks for the tip about the gel i will keep an eye out of them in the supermarkets x
thanks you it tasted good too (even if i do say so myself1) x
do it looks really pretty and Burton loved helping me add the different colours x
thank you – i kind of just played around but i really like the day it turned out x