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Recipe

Rosy rainbow cake

  • 1 hr preparation
  • 35 mins cooking
  • Serves 14
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Ingredients

Rosy rainbow cake
  • 2个数量or 2 x 340g packet basic butter cake mix
  • food colouring, pink, green
  • 1 tablespoon rosewater
  • 2个数量basic buttercream
  • 1 cup white chocolate melts
  • wire butterflies, pink candles, to decorate

Method

Rosy rainbow
  • 1
    Preheat oven to moderate, 180°C. Lightly grease and flour 4 shallow 20cm round cake pans.
  • 2
    Spoon 1/4 cake mixture into one pan. Divide remaining mixture into 3 bowls. Tint one lot pale pink, one dark pink and one pale green. Pour into pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until cooked when tested. Transfer to wire racks to cool. Trim cakes to create 4 flat cakes of the same thickness.
  • 3
    Beat rosewater into buttercream. Place dark pink cake on serving plate. Spread top with 1/3 cup buttercream. Repeat layers with green, plain and light pink cakes. Spread remaining frosting over top and side of cake.
  • 4
    Arrange white chocolate melts around cake base. Secure wire butterflies on and around cake and add candles to decorate.

Notes

Flavour each cake with a different essence, eg, strawberry, vanilla, lemon, orange blossom.

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