I'm looking for a recipe for a multi-coloured cake, it hasto be one cake with different colours in it.?

Question

The idea is that when the cake is baked it comes out with different colours in it, depending on the food colouring you use, eg pink, green. The cake can have as many colours as you want.You get one cake with different colours, not multi-layered with different colours. My mother used to bake it for us, but now I can't find the recipe and she has passed away

Answer 1

Rainbow Cake

1 cup butter
1 3/4 cups sugar
3 cups flour
5 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon green food coloring
1 teaspoon red food coloring
1 teaspoon yellow food coloring
1 teaspoon rose essence
1 teaspoon pineapple essence
1 teaspoon strawberry essence

1.Sieve flour, baking powder and soda bicarbonate.
2.Cream butter and sugar.
3.Add eggs slowly (Its preferable to add 1 egg at a time for best results).
4.Mix.
5.Add flour and milk.
6.Make into a smooth paste.
7.Divide the batter into 3 equal parts.
8.To one part, add 1 tsp.
9.Green colour and rose essence.
10.To the second part, add 1 tsp.
11.Yellow colour and pineapple essence.
12.To the third part, add 1 tsp.1
13.Red colour and strawberry essence.
14.Pour green colour in the bottom of a round cake tin, red colour in the middle and yellow colour on top.
15.Bake for 45 minutes.
16.Serve after cooling.
http://www.recipezaar.com/8961

Yummy Rainbow Cake

Original recipe yield:
1 - 2 layer 9 inch cake
PREP TIME 10 Min
COOK TIME 35 Min
READY IN 1 Hr 20 Min

INGREDIENTS
· 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
· 1 1/4 cups water
· 1/4 cup vegetable oil
· 3 egg whites
· 1/2 cup multicolored sprinkles (jimmies)
· 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
· 2 cups mini candy-coated chocolate pieces
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans.
2. Combine cake mix, water, oil and egg whites and beat for 2 minutes until blended. Fold in sprinkles. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake in the preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow cake layers to cool in pans for 30 minutes.
3. Frost cake layers with whipped topping and assemble on platter. Cover top of the cake with as many chocolate candies as possible, and surround the bottom of the cake with remaining candies.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/yummy-rainbow-cake/detail.aspx

Answer 2

It's very easy
simply whip up a white cake recipe (you can use a commercial mix if you want)
divide the batter into 4 small bowls (or 5 or 6) but remember the more colours you use, the more difficult it can be to get the mix right
mix the desired colour of food colouring into each bowl - remembering that blue + yellow makes green, red + yellow makes orange etc. Pick your colour scheme before hand.
once you have your 4 colours:
If you want a layer cake - prepare 2 layer pans and divide half the amount of each colour of batter into each pan - beside each other or on top of each other. Gently take a small spatula, spoon or knife and waft it through the batter -swirling it around but not mixing it. The coloured batters should swirl together sort of like if you are mixing coloured paints together. Be careful, don't over mix it or the colours will combine too much.

bake

for a slab cake, pour all 4 batters into your large pan and swirl as directed above.

Your cake should be beautiful!

PS I just realized you may not know what "waft" is - you take the edge of the instrument you are using and it's like cutting through the batter, but don't lift the instrument just keep it moving with the edge cutting through the batter until you think the batter is swirly enough.

Answer 3

It sounds like a "rainbow" cake and there are two different types, but in general it starts with a sheet cake from a plain white cake mix.

The first variation is to divide off some of the mix into separate bowls and use food coloring to make that part of the mix a different color(s). You then either pour some of the white cax mix in the pan, followed by a row of colored cake mix, then white mix until continue to alternate until you reach the end of the pan, although some people just put the white mix in first, then spoon the colored mix in rows over the top. In both methods you run a knife down from top to bottom at about two inch intervals the bake the cake as indicated on the box.

The other method is to mix and bake the white cake as indicated on the box and after it it cooled, use a fork to polk into the cake at say two inch intervals from side to side and top to bottom, then but then either different colors of Jello that you have mixed separately into separte bowls into the different fork holes in whatever pattern you want the colors interwowen in the finished cake. The Jello also flavors the cake.

Answer 4

Try dividing the batter into bowls and adding a couple drops of food coloring, and then pour each bowl of batter into the cake and bake it! Then you can also add some of the Food coloring to the frosting to color it. You do it the same way as above for the frosting ! GOOD LUCK!!