I wanted to make a spectacular cake for Cameron's tenth birthday and when I saw Amanda's Rainbow Cake, I knew I'd found what I was looking for - it's amazing!
I adapted her recipe in several ways but the advice and instructions in her blog were what made the cake successful.
I used a basic victoria sponge recipe. Each layer was made of half a cup of cake mixture, coloured with professional sugarcraft food colouring (to achieve the vivid colours without a ridiculous quantity of e-numbers) - I bought mine from a local shop but they are widely available online in places like eBay [links to a search for them]. The food colouring is quite expensive, but you only need a tiny amount to get really amazing colours.
I baked each layer in a 5inch cake tin and leveled and froze them when they were cool,until I was ready to assemble the cake.
For the icing, I wanted to make white chocolate ganache (white chocolate is Cameron's fave) and I made the ganache recipe from Nigella's site, however, after several hours of cooling in the fridge, it wasn't anywhere near the consistency I needed to keep the tall cake together and secure so I beat in some marscapone cream cheese. The icing was satisfyingly thick and delicious, if I do say so myself!
I assembled the frozen layers, one at a time, iced around the edges as I went along and then piped around the top and bottom.
Star shaped rainbow sprinkles finished it off and I left it overnight to defrost - hoping that the colours wouldn't run or any of the other horrific things I imagined as I tossed and turned in bed that evening!
The cake itself wasn't difficult to make but it took quite a lot of time. Icing isn't my best skill so I found that challenging, but now I have confidence in the knowledge that it works, I'd have no hesitations about making it again, or with a differing design (more variation ideas in Amanda's baking group on flickr).
The moment I cut into the cake and pulled the first slice away - everyone in the room wowed in amazement, including me!
14 comments:
You are so clever! It looks fab:-)
Happy Birthday Cameron.xx
What a fantastic, super duper, amazing cake, which look great before you even cut into it. I am dead impressed!
fantastic!! perfect ! well done :-) xxx
I love all your choices.. its sounds like one of the most delicious cakes EVER!! And your execution is flawless!
Blessings-
Amanda
That looks absolutely stunning!
What a fabulous cake!
Wow that is a gasp inspiring cake! What a lucky boy. I want one for my birthday. I also saw Amanda's recipe and was slightly put off by the checkerboard effect but now I've seen it in layers it seems much more "doable"! Thanks.
Wow that is amazing! I want a cake like that, too bad my birthdays just passed, oh well I guess it doesnt need to be a birthday to eat cake!
Happy Birthday to Cameron :)
That's fabulous, what a great birthday cake.
Bravo!
wow! that really is spectacular!!
happy 10th birthday Cameron :o)
Wow!! that is awesome!! love it x
*WOW* Is right!! : )
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