Wilton 2105-0112 - Easy Layers! Cake Tin Set, Non-Stick, 15.2cm (6in), 5 piece

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Preheat the oven to 170C/150C Fan/Gas 3. Grease 6 x 20cm/8in loose bottom sandwich cake tins (approximately 4cm/1½in deep) and line the bottoms with greaseproof paper. Dust the tins with flour, then shake out the excess.

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If you don’t have self raising flour, swap it for an equal amount of plain or all-purpose flour and put in an extra teaspoon of baking powder. Other colourful bakes I made this rainbow cake this morning for my boys and they thought I was the coolest mom EVERRRRR! *toot toot* The last time I made something rainbowish on my blog was when I made these rainbow (tie dye) cupcakesfor Isaac when he was potty trained. Notice how by placing the coloured batter at the center of the subsequent one at the bottom, it pushes the bottom batter outwards! Hence creating that beautiful rainbow effect! I’m really selling this cake recipe aren’t I? Ha! Well might as well add another great thing I love about it: It’s VERY forgiving if you overmix it! Huge bonus since we’ll be doing a lot of stirring when we add in our food coloring.

This spectacular rainbow cake is a guaranteed showstopper. It’s so colourful but easy enough to make from scratch – simply make a basic cake and add some food colouring. It’s so easy, it’s perfect for kids.

I made this cake for one of my kid’s birthdays – all they wanted was a colourful rainbow cake decorated with sweets. If, like me, you have limited cake decorating skills this recipe is perfect. The rainbow layers look so impressive it doesn’t need a lot of fancy decoration on top. How to you make a rainbow cake from scratch? Get your kids to measure the baking powder. Make sure they use their finger to level the tea spoon before they put it in so they get just the right amount. I’ve given ingredients for a six layer rainbow cake but as we make 2 layers at a time it’s easy to reduce the quantities to make a smaller 4 layer rainbow cake. If you’re making fewer layers you will just need to adjust the colours you use. They were so impressed and was all like “oh my God how did you make this!?”, “You’re the best mom on this earth”, “You’re prettier than Beyonce mom!”, “I hope my wife is just as fabulous as you are!”…. Ok I added those last two lines but still…..you get the point…they were like, really happy. This is such an easy recipe which means it’s great for kids who want to give a helping hand. Children can help measure and mix everything together to make the cake batter as well as adding in the rainbow colours.

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Add a splash of milk to two small bowls then add some food colouring to each. Start with a little bit of colour then keep adding it until you have the right hue. Using a knife or a cheese grater, trim the sides of the cake to within a few millimetres of the cake board it’s sitting on. Add a splash of milk to the buttercream and beat for 30 seconds to loosen. Put 2 spoons of the buttercream on the top of the cake, then spread the buttercream towards the edges and down the sides with a palette knife. Scrape of any excess and discard. This layer should be very thin, almost translucent in parts. Return the cake to the fridge for 10 minutes.Carefully trim the tops off any cakes with a bread knife that look at all uneven. Then put the first layer down on your cake stand or plate. Spread a little buttercream icing on top and spread it out with a palette knife. For me, I baked this cake in support of the LGBT community of my home country, Singapore. This is part of a movement named the Pink Dot movement. It is held annually for peaceful demonstrations to urge the government to grant the LGBT community of Singapore the freedom to love. I believe that sexuality should be a right, and not a choice. Add in the three large eggs along with the vanilla essence / extract, and beat until they are incorporated, with no dark yellow streaks of the egg yolk remaining. Jump to Recipe Rainbow cake for kids This spectacular rainbow cake is a guaranteed showstopper. It’s so colourful but easy enough to make from scratch – simply make a basic cake and add some food colouring. It’s so easy, it’s perfect for kids. Next, some elaboration on the method. The method to make this cake simply utilizes the fact that the rainbow cake batter is on the liquidy than the solid side, and as such will be able to spread. Hence, when we split the batter into six portions to be separately coloured and pigmented, we want the base to have the most batter while the top layer has the least batter ( I will explain to you how I do the calculations later! ).

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Add some more icing on top and around the sides of the cake. To have a neater finish, add a thin crumb coat at first, chill it then add the final coat of icing and smooth it down. To make the buttercream, place the salted butter in the bowl of an electric mixer. Sift the icing sugar on top, bring the mixture together at a low speed, then beat at high speed for a few minutes until the mixture is pale and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and beat to combine. Get your kids to measure out all the ingredients and add them to a large mixing bowl or free-standing mixer.

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Add in the powdered sugar. Half a cup at the time to increase maximal incorporation and not making a mess! Finally, add the vanilla. If you have young children you might need to hold the spoon while they pour in the vanilla or vice versa. Older children should manage this on their own.