Birthday Cake Design 3

I birthday cake which I had to make it overnight. Luckily I had some fondant already prepared in my refrigerator. It’s a 3 layered tricolored / triflavoured cake, with buttercream icing and sugar fondant covering.

 

VIBGYOR Birthday Cake (Rainbow cake)

It was my younger sons 5^th Birthday and I had to make a special cake for him. As he has started going to school this year, he is learning the concept of colour and rainbow. So, thought of making a rainbow coloured cake with all the 7 colour i.e VIBGYOR.  Here is the final product with violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red colours.

I have made half kg cake for each colour, which I think is a little big. So an advice would be to make a batter of 1 kg and divide it into 3portions.  You can also try this with Shades of colour.

So, enjoy baking and icing and do put in you feedbacks.

Ingredients

 
For 1kg Cake ( for 2 cakes)
 
Flour/maida - 250gm
Granulated sugar – 250gm
Butter – 250gm
Egg - 250gm (ie. 5eggs)
Baking powder - 1tsp
Vanilla essence - 1tsp
Colour – ½ tsp of each colours

For butter Cream

White butter – 2cup

Icing sugar – 8 cup
Vanilla essence – 2tsp
Milk – 2tbsp
Colour – ½ tsp of each colours

Method

For Cake

1.      Sever flour & baking powder together .

2.      Powder the granulated sugar .

3.      Preheat the oven to 1800c for 5 min.

4.      In a bowl beat the soft butter and sugar powder ( 1 min with a beater or 5/6 min with hand)

5.      To this add egg and beat. ( 2 min with beater or about 8 min by hand).

6.      Add essence and mix .

7.      Now fold in the flour.

8.      Divide this batter into 2 bowls.

9.      Add 2 different colours to both the bowls, mix well till the colour incorporated.  

10.  Grease and dust a 8” x 8” round container for each cake.

11.  Pour the mixture into it.

12.  Bake at 1800c for 30 min.

13.  Cool it completely.

14.  Repeat for all the 7 color of Rainbow.  

For Butter Cream

15.  Beat butter till it is soft.

16.  To this add 1 cup icing sugar at a time and keep beating till the entire quantity of sugar is mixed.  

17.  To this add vanilla essence mixed with milk and beat it till it is nicely incorporated.

18.  Divide the butter cream into 8 portion. Where in the 8^th portion should be double the quality of the other portions.

19.  Don’t mix any color to the 8^th portion as it will be required to do crumb coating.

20.  Add the 7 rainbow color to the remaining 7 portions and mix well.  

To assemble

 

21.  Level all the cakes horizontally.

22.  Now start with the Violet cake.  Place it on the cake board.

23.  Spread a thin layer of white butter cream on top.

24.  Next place the Indigo cake and spread the thin layer of white butter cream.

25.  Repeat this process with blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.

26.  Finally when the red cake is on the top. Check if all the cakes are leveled from the sides. If not, trim it and shape it.

27.  Now with the white icing make crumb coat i.e make an icing coat on the whole cake so that no crumbs of the cake is visible.  

28.  Now refrigerate for ½ an hour so that the icing gets stiff and become easy to do the color icing.

29.  Start icing from the bottom to top with 2 rings of each color.

30.  Further decorate it the way you want.

31.  Refrigerate it till you use.

Mug Chocolate Cake in 3 Min

Looks like my elder lad is getting inclined towards cooking.  I don’t know where this recipe came from but as he was surfing the internet for his summer homework, he saw a video and wrote the recipe.  When I came back from work he was all exited to make it.  I was in no mood of baking.  His only request was to take out all the ingredients and measuring spoons and he promised that he won’t mess up the space.  That was simple for me and I agreed.  By the time I freshened up he came back with a hot mug of cake.  THAT WAS IMPRESSIVE.  I tasted, it was nice, tasty but a bit hard. So the next day I tried with a little variation here and there from the original recipe he had.  It came out  soft and tasted yummy with whipped cream. Thanks to whomever this recipe belongs to.

So, now He is flaunting around with his new found baking expertise and bring in friends for a tasting session and everything is done in front of them. How Cool!

Ingredients

Flour – 4tbsp

Caster sugar – 4tbsp

Coco powder – 1 tbsp

Oil – 3tbsp

Egg – 1

Milk – 3tbsp

Vanilla essence – ½ tsp.

Baking powder – ¼ tsp.

Choco chips –  1tbsp

Coffee mug - 1

 Method

1.      Mix all the dry ingredient together in the coffee mug.

2.      To this add the egg mix well with a fork.

3.      Now add the milk and oil, mix.

4.      Add chocochip and the essence.

5.      Microwave at high for 3 min.

6.      It will start crowning on the top, don’t panic as it will stop once the heat stops.

7.      Now enjoy this cake with ice-cream or whipped cream.