Today we wanna share with you the recipe of the rainbow cake! It is really nice!!!
Ingredients
- Vegetable shortening
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 1/3 cups sugar
- 5 large egg whites, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups milk, room temperature
- Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple gel food coloring
- Lemony Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush six 9-inch-round cake pans (or as many 9-inch cake pans as you have, reusing them as necessary) with shortening. Line bottom of each cake pan with parchment paper; brush again and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar. Slowly add egg whites and mix until well combined. Add vanilla and mix until fully incorporated. Add flour mixture and milk in two alternating additions, beginning with the flour and ending with the milk. Mix until well combined.
- Divide batter evenly between six medium bowls. Add enough of each color of food coloring to each bowl, whisking, until desired shade is reached. Transfer each color to an individual cake pan. Transfer to oven and bake until a cake tester inserted into the center of each cake comes out clean, about 15 minutes (working in batches if necessary).
- Remove cakes from oven and transfer to a wire rack; let cool for 10 minutes. Invert cakes onto a wire rack; re-invert and let cool completely.
- Using a serrated knife, trim tops of cakes to make level. Place four strips of parchment paper around perimeter of a serving plate or lazy Susan. Place the purple layer on the cake plate. Spread a scant 1 cup buttercream filling over the first layer with a small offset spatula so it extends just beyond edges. Repeat process with blue, green, yellow, and orange layers.
- Place the remaining red layer on top, bottom-side up. Gently sweep away any loose crumbs with a pastry brush. Using an offset spatula, cover the top and sides with a thin layer of frosting (also use any of the excess frosting visible between the layers). Refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes.
- Using an offset spatula, cover cake again with remaining frosting.
This was a complete disaster for me. I wouldnt bother putting vegetable shortening on the ingredients. You can grease te inside of a pan with anything, just use some of the butter. I went and bought a whole box, adding significantly to the cost and didnt even bother opening it when i realised that was all it was for. The misture is also not enough for 6 9 inch cake tins, i had to make it twice over, rushing out for more stuff. Only to find out the misture is too runny anyway, my mum tells me when she made sponge she only used 4 tbsps of milk, i stopped short of what you recommend and my cake is still barely cooking, and when done has sunk so low in the middle there is practically a hole. Also my mum recommends if you want to use liquid food colourings which is all i could get you should leave out some of the liquid a anyway. If you want to make this i would suggest looking up another sponge recipe, any normal one will surely do then just tip in the colouring! The author is right though, it takes one hell of a lot of colouring to get it vibrant, mine still isnt as bright as picture, i dont want to get ill, lol!
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