OK so maybe Sesame Street has been on a little too much lately, but it did influence a cake we made this weekend. Gingerbug Creations worked on a vanilla rainbow cake with a swiss meringue buttercream frosting.
The most important ingredient in this whole cake is definitely the gel food coloring. Don't be afraid to use a lot but be careful ... you can quickly look like you got into an accident with the knife.
Since this is a layer cake there was a little math involved ... which, on a Sunday afternoon took a minute to figure out.
After making the batter..... NO wait... BEFORE making the batter, weigh the bowl you are using so that you know how much to subtract once the batter is in there. I kinda forgot that when I did it. So now you have the bowl and the batter weighed. Divide by 6. Now ... weight each bowl you are adding the batter into and add the correct amount of batter. Once you have 6 bowls all with the correct amount of batter, you use the gel. Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple and TA-DA ...
After baking 2 cakes at a time in the oven (at 350 degrees for approximately 14 mins), 45 mins had passed, we got our frosting completed, and we had 6 thin layers of very vibrant cake. The frosting is a swiss meringue buttercream this is a thicker frosting that is known for holding up and with all the layers that was ideal. You can also change the flavor of the frosting to lemon, orange, or raspberry, but personally vanilla seemed to work well today. Basically the frosting is a whole lotta egg whites, sugar and butter and oh so good. Here is what all the layers look like ...
After this you put a crumb layer of frosting and then the final layer of frosting. It is so fun to watch people cut into the cake and see the surprise on their faces when they see the colors of the rainbow. It tastes as amazing as it looks too!
The only thing that I would do differently ... add thicker layers of frosting in between the cake layers. Other then that the cake turned out great and brightened up everyone's day!
Gingerbug
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