Multi Flavoured Rainbow Cake

Allow the cakes to cool in the pans for 5 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack.

Multi flavoured rainbow cake.

Of course if vanilla is your thing then you can easily make this cake a vanilla rainbow cake too. Repeat with blue green yellow orange and red cake layers. Cover the cake with chocolate buttercream taking care to keep track of what layer is where. 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.

Prepare cake batter from 1 pkg. It s kind of a cross between a white cake and a hummingbird cake in flavor. Cake mix as directed on package. Trim rounded tops off cakes to level if needed.

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 took a small box of each flavor of gelatin in the double recipe so no measuring needed. So i doubled this recipe and filled my cake pans a little fuller and had enough left to make 12 regular sized cupcakes. Pour half into separate bowl.

Bake cake for 25 to 30 minutes until layers are fragrant and spring back when touched. Allow the cake layers to cool completely. 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.

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. I rrrrreally like it with cream cheese frosting though. 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.

I wanted my layers to be full size 9 inch layer cakes and not thin. On serving plate place purple cake layer. Then i added the eggs and self raising flour and split the mixture between three bowls. Spread with frosting to within 1 4 inch of edge.

One cake mix makes only 2 full sized layers. Grease and flour 2 9 inch round pans.