Magic Rainbow Cake!

My Mum is simply amazing, so she deserves a special magical birthday cake! I decided to make her a magic rainbow cake covered in chocolate fudge frosting and here is the recipe if you want to make your own. It is not technically difficult to make AT ALL but is quite time consuming as there are lots of layers to colour and bake, but does look very impressive. I warn you now, this cake is big (equivalent of 4 single sponge cakes) so it's perfect for a party, and is definitely a 'fork cake'. As it is completely covered you can keep it a secret as to what the cake is inside, so it's a lovely surprise when you cut the first slice!

Yummy Mummy's Rainbow Cake

1lb self raising flour,

1lb castor sugar,

1lb Stork,

8 eggs.

Food colourings for all the rainbow colours- I used Wilton gel colours, I would really recommend gel colours of you won't get bright, vibrant sponges.

2 tubs of Betty Crocker's chocolate fudge frosting (you could do any other frosting you fancied; ganache, cream cheese etc.)

1 sharing pack of M & Ms (you won't quite need all of them but I'm sure your mouth can help you out!)

1. Preheat the oven to 190C.

2. Mix together the self raising flour, castor sugar, Stork and eggs.

3. Divide equally into 7 bowls and then colour to rainbow colours. I did red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink and purple. If you don't have all the colours you can mix them like paint.

4. Line cake tins with foil, if you have 4 cake tins then this will make it a lot quicker for you to bake but they can easily be done in smaller batches. 

5. Bake each cake for 14-18 minutes until a skewer comes out cleanly. Your oven may take a different amount of time so keep a close eye on the first batch so you know how long later batches will take. Remember they are just over half the size of a single sponge so will cook quicker and be thinner.

6. As they come out the oven leave to cool in the foil for a few minutes before peeling off the foil very carefully and leaving until completely cool.

7. To assemble the cake put a little blob of the frosting on your cake plate then put on the first sponge. Top with chocolate fudge frosting, then repeat until you get all the way to the top layer. Cover the top and sides in chocolate fudge frosting then top with M & Ms.

Share and enjoy the magic of the rainbow cake, makes me think of sparkles and unicorns!

xxx