Who doesn’t love a rainbow? That magical moment when Tlaloc is being generous and yet the sun is peeking from behind the clouds, hop scotching and letting fall its warmth here and there – that exact moment, a jolly young rainbow is born.

Rainbows had always fascinated me as a kid. It had that fairytale aura that I looked for in anything and everything then.

That fascination – well, I incorporated it in my culinary creations and the outcome was more than satisfactory. The food looked fun, my little cousins loved them and to top it all, they were delicious!!

Rainbow Cake
Serves 12
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Total Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr
Ingredients
  1. 125g butter (softened, plus a little extra for greasing)
  2. 225g plain flour
  3. 150g golden caster sugar 3 fresh eggs
  4. 1 tsp baking powder, pinch of salt
  5. 1 tsp vanilla extract
  6. Edible food colouring (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple)
Icing
  1. 1 tsp vanilla extract
  2. 3 x 250g tubs cream cheese
  3. 350g icing sugar
  4. 3 for 6 sponges
Instructions
  1. Heat the oven to 180C. Grease the pan and line the base with baking paper. Tip all the sponge ingredients (apart from the food colouring) into a mixing bowl, and then beat until smooth.
  2. Weigh the mixture into another bowl, and then weigh exactly half the mixture back into the mixing bowl. Pick 2 colours and stir a little into each mix. Scrape the different batters into the tins, trying to spread and smooth as much as possible. Bake on the same oven shelf for 12 minutes until a skewer poked into the middle comes out clean.
  3. Repeat the same process to make all the coloured layers. Leave them all to cool.
  4. To make the icing, beat the vanilla and cream cheese until smooth. Sift in the icing sugar and gently fold in with a spatula.
  5. Smear a little icing on your plate to stick the first sponge. Start with the red, and then spread with some icing right to the very edge. Repeat, sandwiching on top the orange, yellow, green, blue and finally purple sponges. Spread the remaining icing thickly all over the sides and top of the cake.
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