Rainbow birthday cake

Hello everyone,

This weekend was a rather socially busy one, and I had two very fun days. Saturday was one of my oldest and dearest friends birthday BBQ, so I took the opportunity to take on a new challenge, the rainbow cake. This was a 5 layer white chocolate sponge, in some of the colours of the rainbow. To make it I used a set of Wilton pans from Lakeland (http://www.lakeland.co.uk/19499/Wilton-Easy-Layer-Cake-Pan-Set) - they take one normal size cake mix, which means your end bake isn't too huge! A little tip I have is use gel colouring as I find these give a brighter colour when the bake comes out:

Ingredients:

200g soft butter

100g chopped white chocolate

4 eggs

200g caster sugar

200g self raising flour

Five food colourings - I used blue, green, red, pink and yellow

200g white chocolate

250ml double cream

If the icing is too liquid like, add in icing powder until thick enough.

Method:

Heat the oven to 180C/ 160C fan assisted. Grease five small pans ready for the batter.

Over a simmering pan, in a bowl mix together the butter and chocolate until melted. Beat in the eggs and sugar and then gently fold in the flour.

Separate the batter into five separate bowls, and add a small amount of colour to each until you get your desired darkness. Pour into the tins and bake for 10 minutes, and then test to see if a skewer comes out clean. Put back in the oven for an extra few minutes if needed.

Allow to cool fully on a wire rack. Melt the second batch of white chocolate over a simmering pan with the cream. When fully combined remove from the heat and allow to cool and harden. If this is too runny add in some icing powder until it has a spreadable consistency. Sandwich together the layers of the cake with white chocolate and put in the fridge for 10 minutes to set fully.

Remove from the fridge before serving, and sit back to appreciate the oooohhhs and ahhhhhssss when this is cut into!

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