Multi Flavoured Rainbow Cake

I rrrrreally like it with cream cheese frosting though.

Multi flavoured rainbow cake.

On serving plate place purple cake layer. Pour half into separate bowl. Then i added the eggs and self raising flour and split the mixture between three bowls. It took a small box of each flavor of gelatin in the double recipe so no measuring needed.

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

Allow the cake to cool for up to 2 hours. Allow the cake layers to cool completely. I wanted my layers to be full size 9 inch layer cakes and not thin. Repeat with blue green yellow orange and red cake layers.

Prepare cake batter from 1 pkg. Spread with frosting to within 1 4 inch of edge. 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.

It s simple tender delicious and pairs up with pretty much any frosting flavor under the sun. 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. Allow the cakes to cool in the pans for 5 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack.

Trim rounded tops off cakes to level if needed. Cover the cake with chocolate buttercream taking care to keep track of what layer is where. Grease and flour 2 9 inch round pans. Spread light coat of frosting on top and side of cake to seal in crumbs then frost with remaining frosting.

Carefully remove the aluminum wrapped cardboard from the cake pan and flip the cake out onto a cake stand. It s kind of a cross between a white cake and a hummingbird cake in flavor.