Thursday 16 August 2012

How To Make a Rainbow Cake



Today is my better half's birthday. He is turning the ripe old age of 23. 

There is just over a week between our birthday's but in between my big day and his...he always likes to remind me that I am actually a whole year older than him. 

Despite the fact it is just for 8 days.

As each birthday comes and goes, and Luke get's more gadgets year after year. It get's harder and harder to find that perfect birthday gift for him.

I have had to think outside the box and find something new and unique for him to do. Take last year for instance when Luke took part in a Monster Truck Driving Experience, and even got to drive the big Red truck out of the recent Mcdonald's advert.


I have booked him nights away luxurious hotels and even disguised gifts. One year he even thought I had bought him a Playstation 3...Only to discover it was a weighted Playstation 3 box....with no Playstation 3. Of course after seeing that sad puppy dog face, he did indeed get one later that year. 

This year though I am all out of ideas. My present finding fountain has run dry.

So I gave him some money to do as he will, invested in that new Sat Nav that he needs and then I sat looking at Bex's 'How to make a rainbow cake' post. I thought how great the finished cake looked and how unusual it was, most of all just how bright and colourful it was.

 I was inspired. 

So before that inspiration disappeared I began to get the ingredients together to make the monstrous recipe that this cake demanded. Let's just say that when Bex said you need a big mixing bowl...You really do need a big mixing bowl. 

You need to put the mixture into a number of individual bowls before adding your food colouring, and then transferring them into the cake tin to bake. The food colouring is where things go from messy...to messier. Unfortunately I am no cooking goddess and I do make a mess. A big mess.

I began baking at 7pm last night, just after Leo had gone down to bed. At 1:00am last night I was still waiting for my final cake to come out of the oven. I guess if you are using one cake tin to cook a number of different cake layers...You can expect the drawn out cooking duration!

I found by the end that I had food colouring everywhere. All over my hands, all over the table and all up the wall around the kitchen sink. It was like a big bag of rainbow drops had casually exploded all over the kitchen. 

Despite the grueling haul in the kitchen, and the very late night. The cake was completed this morning and topped off with Marzipan. The decorations were applied and the cake was ready. Ready to shine rainbows out upon the moment of impact. The impact of the knife slowly but surely cutting through all those layers that took me so long to bake. 

Luke arrived home from work tonight and there it was sitting on the table. After we had lit Luke's candles and Leo looked on in awe, we took the knife and allowed those rainbows to shine. I actually found myself looking around the room for the leprechaun and the pot of gold. 

So Happy Birthday Luke!

Rainbow Cake Recipe


16oz/450g butter
28oz/800g
sugar
1lb/900g flour
8 eggs
4 tsps vanilla essence
6 tsps baking powder
500ml milk
food colouring paste


Here is our Rainbow Cake!





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    1. Thank you, I do feel quite proud of my cake! I mean.. Luke's cake! x

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  2. looks amazing! Hope you save me a slice! :p

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    1. Of course! Consider a slice in the post to you! X

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  3. That looks so yummy! Happy Birthday to Luke x

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  4. That is the best idea ever. I love it. Did it taste nice? I want some. You have to send me the recipe ;-) Hope Luke had a fabulous birthday and you too ;-) Wow to be 23 again. I am having the 'I'm almost 30' mid life crisis at present lol. Take care hun Tweet you later ;-) Kate (aka Makeshift Mummy from www.facebook.com/MakeshiftMummy) xx

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    1. I got this fab idea from Bex and the recipe is on her blog, but I am very pleased with the outcome :-)
      Thanks lovely xx

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  5. What a fantastic cake and lucky hubby :0) Eight days is nothing. I'm 6 yrs older than my hubby but you'd never guess, its funny how he's getting like a grumpy ole man and I tease him all the time.

    Here's to many more happy birthdays to yours.

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    1. Thank you :-) Oh men really do have their grumpy moments! xx

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