Multi Flavoured Rainbow Cake

On serving plate place purple cake layer.

Multi flavoured rainbow cake.

So i doubled this recipe and filled my cake pans a little fuller and had enough left to make 12 regular sized cupcakes. Carefully remove the aluminum wrapped cardboard from the cake pan and flip the cake out onto a cake stand. 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. One cake mix makes only 2 full sized layers.

It s kind of a cross between a white cake and a hummingbird cake in flavor. Trim rounded tops off cakes to level if needed. Pour half into separate bowl. 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.

Prepare cake batter from 1 pkg. Repeat with blue green yellow orange and red cake layers. Cover bottoms with parchment. I wanted my layers to be full size 9 inch layer cakes and not thin.

Cover the cake with chocolate buttercream taking care to keep track of what layer is where. Allow the cake to cool for up to 2 hours. I rrrrreally like it with cream cheese frosting though. Cake mix as directed on package.

Of course if vanilla is your thing then you can easily make this cake a vanilla rainbow cake too. Then i added the eggs and self raising flour and split the mixture between three bowls. Spread light coat of frosting on top and side of cake to seal in crumbs then frost with remaining frosting. Bake cake for 25 to 30 minutes until layers are fragrant and spring back when touched.

It took a small box of each flavor of gelatin in the double recipe so no measuring needed. Grease and flour 2 9 inch round pans. Allow the cakes to cool in the pans for 5 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack. 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.

It s simple tender delicious and pairs up with pretty much any frosting flavor under the sun. Reline and grease the pans and bake the final three layers.