Rainbow cake with vanilla buttercream icing..
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Ingredients of Rainbow cake with vanilla buttercream icing.
- It’s 3 cup of self-raising flour.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of white sugar.
- It’s 6 medium of eggs.
- You need 2 tbsp of of water.
- It’s 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence.
- You need 1 cup of margarine.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
- You need 1/2 tsp of each of different colours (i use powdered colours).
- Prepare of Icing.
- It’s 1/4 cup of margarine.
- You need 1/4 cup of shortening.
- Prepare 3/4 tsp of vanilla.
- You need 2 cup of icing sugar.
- You need 1 tbsp of milk.
Rainbow cake with vanilla buttercream icing. step by step
- Pre-heat oven at 160°C. It's a slow-bake cake..
- Grease & flour a 7 inch diameter round baking dish..
- Sieve flour & salt. Keep aside..
- In a bowl, add margarine + sugar & mix well with a mixer at high speed till fluffy and creamy..
- Add the eggs + vanilla & mix well till well combined & mixture looks curdy..
- Add the flour mixture & mix well till all combined..
- If mixture is too heavy, add the water & mix well on high speed..
- Take 7 bowls. Scoop using a serving spoon, the cake mixture & distribute evenly in the bowls. Repeat till all the mixture is used up..
- Now add the food colouring. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple. Different colour for each bowl. ( unfortunately, i ran out of blue colour, so i used 6).
- Mix well. DONT use the same spoon for all the bowls….
- Pour 1 bowl at a time, into the baking dish, spreading CAREFULLY to the edge of the dish. Make sure not to mix-up the colours..
- Place in the oven. Bake for about 1& a half hours or until a wooden pick inserted in the middle, comes out clean..
- Cool completely on wire rack. Make sure the cake is COMPLETELY COOL before spreading the icing..
- For the Icing:.
- In a large bowl, cream margarine & shortening till light & fluffy. Add vanilla, icing sugar & milk. Mix well. (U can add a tablespoon more of milk to make it the consistency u require.).