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Recipe for a not-too-sweet rainbow cake

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Colorful rainbow cake for children's birthday

After much back and forth, I finally dared to make this cake. Anyone who has followed my blog for a while will have noticed that my daughter loves colorful baked goods, and this cake was perfect for her birthday. Admittedly, it is a bit more effort, but what wouldn't you do for bright, happy children's eyes. I wanted to use a cake cream without butter and found a very simple, great cream here with quark, whipped cream, and mascarpone. Here is my recipe for a very good rainbow cake that is not too sweet:

Recipe for a Rainbow Cake

Conclusion

Rainbow cake - cross-section

I admit, I had a little respect for the cake because I read everywhere that it is very elaborate. But I have to say, I didn't find it that bad. You should just plan some time so that you can bake the cake sheets one after the other, but that was it. These cake layers detached very nicely from the mold, so we had hardly any loss of time and could immediately slide the next one into the oven.

I also decided on 'only' 6 colors so that, firstly, I have less baking to do, and secondly, the cake does not get too high. Taste-wise, I was also very surprised; the cake tasted very good, and I was quite enthusiastic about the 'quark-mascarpone-whipped cream' frosting.

Read also: Instructions for a 2-tier balloon cake

Photos by Sabine, meinhaushalt.at

Ingredients

Ingredients for the dough

Ingredients for the cream

Decoration

Preparation

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F) top and bottom heat.

  2. Beat the eggs, sugar and vanilla sugar for about 3 minutes until frothy.

  3. Add the water and oil and beat again.

  4. Mix the flour with baking powder and baking soda and add to the egg mixture.

  5. Now divide the batter evenly into 6 bowls and color with the food coloring.

  6. Line a 26 cm springform pan with baking paper and pour in one colored batter.

  7. Bake this at 180° C in the oven for about 10 minutes.

  8. Repeat the whole process 5 more times.

  9. Let the cake layers cool completely.

  10. Now whip the heavy cream until stiff and gradually add the remaining ingredients: quark, mascarpone, vanilla sugar, and possibly lemon flavoring (I left out the lemon flavoring and used another packet of vanilla sugar instead, so that makes 3 packets of vanilla sugar) and mix everything well.

  11. Now assemble the cake: place the first cake layer according to the desired color (my order: first purple, blue, green, pink, orange, yellow) on a serving plate.

  12. For me it was the purple layer, and I spread a little cream on it.

  13. Repeat this procedure with all the cake layers.

  14. Now coat the outside of the cake with the cream.

  15. Now comes my favorite part: decorate to your heart's content.

  16. I arranged Smarties on the cake in the shape of a rainbow and used fine green sugar as the grass.

  17. I also added butterflies made from wafer paper and small sugar flowers.

  18. Finally, I cut out letters from orange fondant and placed those on the cake as well.

Tips & Notes

Only place decorations like Smarties on the cake shortly before serving, as they unfortunately may bleed color.

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