Rainbow Cake

Rainbow cakes are one of those things that you see on Pinterest and wonder how much of an awesome person you would be if you could actually pull it off...

Well, seeing as we are rapidly approaching the season of goodwill and all, I bring you good tidings.

Rainbow cakes are in fact achievable, and reasonably straightforward.

My top tips for making Rainbow Cakies

I made 3 quantities of my trusty vanilla cake & 2 quantities of vanilla buttercream, (click here for the recipes), and divided the cake batter evenly into 6 bowls. 

Rainbows have 7 colours but I made mine with 6; Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue & Violet only because I wasn't sure the whole indigo thing was going to work out for me, by all means try it though - be authentic!

So here goes...

• Colour the batter using gel paste. I use either Sugarflair or Americolours. The Sugarflair colours are available from any cake decorating store (& I presume Amazon). I ordered the Americolours online from cake decorating suppliers. I used about a half teaspoon which seems like quite a bit, but I find that it gives the best colour for the sponges. The normal liquid food colours are a bit of a waste of time really.
• Bake the cakes in sandwich tins according to the recipe (about 20/25 minutes until a skewer comes out clean), using separate sandwich tins for each colour.
• Let the cakes cool in the tins, then take them out and freeze them before assembling the cake. This is the crucial part as it stops crumbs from going everywhere when you ice it. Depending on how cold your freezer is, you can probably get away with leaving them in the freezer for 2 hours after they have cooled.
• Cover the cake with very generous amounts of buttercream and cover with sprinkles.
• Easy peasy (ish!!)

The cooked cakes ready to cover with icing

The inside! 

If like me you need step-by-step instructions, then head over to Kerry Cooks here. She gives very clear instructions (and a recipe).

Happy Baking!

Source: weheartit.com

Peace & Love

xx

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Dedicated To My First Born...

So Valentines Day has come and gone... I didn't get any balloons or love letters or flowers but I did get to celebrate the birthdays of two special boys; my first born son & my gorgeous nephew. 

My son was born on Valentines Day and I still remember his birth like it was yesterday. Like many first time mothers, it was a traumatic experience. I was in labour for 3 days and had every type of medical intervention known to man. By the time I had the cesarean, I was hungry, dehydrated and exhausted. But with my baby in my arms, I just couldn't sleep. I stayed up all night, excited, with him on my chest wondering how on earth I was going to look after this precious thing. 

There's something special about the first child, that one on one time, the unknown, the excitement with every development. I remember the first time he looked around, the first time he saw a balloon, his first words, first steps, our first holiday and how he smiled at all the ladies, the first time he got a fever & we panicked and rushed him to the hospital, there are just so many memories. 

Now he's grown and cuddles with mummy are a bit of a pain! He still lets me have them though and for that I'm grateful. :) 

9 Years Old, I can't believe it!!

I've just been listening to Alicia Key's latest album recently and one song she sings sums it up perfectly. It's called 'When It's All Over'

"When they lay me down, put my soul to rest

When they ask me how I spent my life

At least I got to love you, when it's all over

When it's all said and done, when it's all over

At least I got to love you, at least I got to love you"

I can't forget my nephew who's birthday is one day earlier. He is the sweetest thing and always has something nice to say. I love baking for him because he loves his aunty's cakes! :) Check out a post that I wrote for his birthday last year here.

My very gorgeous nephew getting tickled by my boys :)

So to celebrate this happy week, it only seemed right to make cakies...

It's been a while since I made Red Velvet Cupcakes, I forgot how tasty they are! I'm not a big cake eater (believe it or not), but Red Velvet Cupcakes are my one weakness. Add some sugar lego men and lots of sprinkles and it makes for a happy time all round, who cares about Valentines! :)

Click here for the recipe link.

What/Who are you grateful for?

Peace & Love

xx

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Day 19 - Doughnuts and Sprinkles

Another day another birthday! Today it's my wonderful mum who is celebrating her birthday in the sunshine :)

I decided to celebrate with some ring doughnuts, another Bailey Ana first as doughnuts are a big favourite in the house. I looked around to try and find a recipe and although there are tons out there, it was a tough one to choose as most of them had pretty mixed reviews.

In the end I settled on a recipe from the BBC Food website (not BBC Good Food) and used a simple icing on top (icing sugar & water). Here are the results;

Have a lovely day Mum & can't wait to see you soon!

Peace & Love

xx

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