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.