Rainbow Cake

Rainbow Cake with a rainbow- buttercream icing 🌈🎂

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% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease six 8 inch circular cake pans and add parchment paper and grease again.

Step 2

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt, then set aside.

Step 3

Cream together butter and sugar.

Step 4

Slowly add egg whites and mix until well combined.

Step 5

Add vanilla, and mix until fully incorporated.

Step 6

Add flour mixture and milk in two alternating additions, beginning with the flour and ending with the milk. Mix until well combined.

Step 7

Divide batter evenly between six medium bowls.

Step 8

Add enough of each hue of food colouring to each bowl, mixing until the desired shade is reached.

Step 9

Transfer each colour to an individual cake pan. Transfer to the oven, and bake until a cake tester inserted into the centre of each cake comes out clean – about 15 minutes (work in batches if necessary).

Step 10

Remove cakes from the oven. Transfer to a wire rack and allow them to cool for 10 minutes. Invert cakes onto a wire rack, re-invert and leave the cakes to cool completely.

Step 11

Using a serrated knife, trim the tops of the cakes to make level.

Step 12

Buttercream icing :

Step 13

6-7 cups icing sugar

Step 14

300 grams room temperature butter

Step 15

2 tsp vanilla essence

Step 16

Cream butter well

Step 17

Sift icing sugar

Step 18

Add vanilla essence to butter and beat well

Step 19

Add icing sugar in small amounts until well incorporated and is the texture of icing.

Step 20

Create a rainbow of different colours by using food colouring in your icing. Pipe it on with any small nozzle in alternating coloured lines, covering the top and sides.

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