Rainbow Cake!!

Hello, 

Today is Recipe Sunday and we are deeply sorry that we have not done this in quite a few weeks, we have been too busy revising and having fun! But to make it up to you we are going to tell you how to make a RAINBOW CAKE!! 

We've seen this around tumblr and the internet a lot and as it was my sister's birthday recently she really wanted one. So my mum took on the great challenge of making one and it was b-e-a-utiful... 

Let's Go!!

Ingredients:

• 350g self raising flower
• 350g soft butter
• 350g caster or light brown caster sugar
• 6 large free range eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 40ml semi-skimmed milk
• 6 food colouring gels

For the icing: 

• Betty Crocker vanilla icing

Instructions: 

1. First, preheat your oven to gas mark 4, 170 degrees Celsius/ 360 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix up the cake batter usually, cream the butter and sugar until combined. Add eggs one at a time and then add the flour and vanilla extract. If your mix was thick like mine, add the 40ml of semi-skimmed milk, adding a tablespoon at a time until the consistency is what you're happy with. 
2. Divide your mix into 6 bowls. I measured this by eye, not bothering to measure it exactly. Then mix one colour into each bowl. You should have six different coloured batches. However, don't add it all at once and keep mixing it in until you get the colour you want. 
3. Put them in the oven but be careful not to over bake them. It should take them about 20 minutes but only take them out when you can poke in a skewer and it comes out clean. 
4. When the cakes are cool, wrap them in clingfilm and put them in the fridge for a day. 

To assemble:

1. Put a little of the icing on the plate or cake stand and place the first cake on the icing- I chose purple as the bottom layer. 
2. Then keep doing this until you've assembled three layers of cake. Yet keep the layers of icing thin as you do not want the icing to be pushed out the sides of the cake. Once three layers have been assembled, put the cake into the fridge for thirty minutes to chill. 
3. Continue stacking the cake, try to position the layers so they are as even as possible. 
4. Apply a layer of icing on the cake, filling any gaps between layers. Once you cut into the cake the layers will be very obvious, don't worry. 
5. Once several layers of icing has been applied, chill for one hour...

Then enjoy!!!

So, we hope your rainbow cakes are fabulous and we would love to see pics of them, so send them to us at 

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Chin up, keep smiling and always be yourself

xox