Multi Flavoured Rainbow Cake

It s one of my go to cake flavors whenever i m making something for a crowd.

Multi flavoured rainbow cake.

One cake mix makes only 2 full sized layers. 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. I wanted my layers to be full size 9 inch layer cakes and not thin. Reline and grease the pans and bake the final three layers.

Trim rounded tops off cakes to level if needed. Repeat with blue green yellow orange and red cake layers. Carefully remove the aluminum wrapped cardboard from the cake pan and flip the cake out onto a cake stand. Allow the cake layers to cool completely.

Cover the cake with chocolate buttercream taking care to keep track of what layer is where. Of course if vanilla is your thing then you can easily make this cake a vanilla rainbow cake too. So i doubled this recipe and filled my cake pans a little fuller and had enough left to make 12 regular sized cupcakes. Cover bottoms with parchment.

Then i added the eggs and self raising flour and split the mixture between three bowls. It s kind of a cross between a white cake and a hummingbird cake in flavor. Cake mix as directed on package. Grease and flour 2 9 inch round pans.

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. Bake cake for 25 to 30 minutes until layers are fragrant and spring back when touched. Allow the cakes to cool in the pans for 5 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack. Prepare cake batter from 1 pkg.

Pour half into separate bowl. I rrrrreally like it with cream cheese frosting though. On serving plate place purple cake layer. Spread with frosting to within 1 4 inch of edge.

It s simple tender delicious and pairs up with pretty much any frosting flavor under the sun. Spread light coat of frosting on top and side of cake to seal in crumbs then frost with remaining frosting.