How To Make Rainbow Cake

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Ingredients

Block

2 ³ / ₄ cups all-purpose flour

1 ¹ / _ii teaspoons blistering powder

¹ / _iv teaspoon salt

one ¹ / ₂ cups sugar

1 cup Land O Lakes® Butter, softened

4 large Country O Lakes® Eggs

ane tablespoon vanilla extract

ane loving cup milk

Cerise, orangish, yellowish, dark-green, blueish and regal gel food color

Buttercream Frosting

ii cups Land O Lakes® Butter, softened

6 ¹ / ₂ cups powdered sugar

¹ / ₄ teaspoon common salt

¹ / ₃ cup Land O Lakes® Heavy Whipping Cream

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and royal gel food color

How to make

Footstep 1

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour ii (eight-inch) round cake pans or spray with baking spray. Set aside.
STEP two

Combine flour, baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt in bowl; set aside.
STEP 3

Shell sugar and 1 loving cup butter in some other basin at medium speed, scraping basin occasionally, until creamy. Add eggs,one at a time, chirapsia well after each addition. Add together ane tablespoon vanilla; mix well. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating at low speed afterward each add-on, just until mixed.
Step 4

Dissever batter evenly amongst six bowls with about iii/4 cup each. Tint block batters red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Spread reddish and orange batter into prepared pans. Bake 8-10 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Absurd three minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Absurd completely. Meanwhile, wash pans; grease and flour pans. Echo with remaining colors until all block layers are baked.
Step 5

Beat 2 cups butter in medium basin at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar and 1/iv teaspoon salt alternatley with whipping cream and 1 tablespoon vanilla, beating at low speed until well incorporated. Beat at medium speed until smooth and creamy. Remove 2 cups frosting; set aside. Divide remaining frosting evenly among half dozen bowls with near one/3 loving cup each. Tint frostings cherry-red, orange, yellow, green, blue and majestic. Set aside.
Footstep six

Place purple block layer onto serving plate, lesser-side upward. Frost top with 1/4 loving cup white frosting. Place blueish cake layer over frosting; frost with 1/4 cup white frosting. Continuing adding dark-green, yellow, orange and red layers in that social club, frosting with 1/4 cup white frosting between each layer. Frost exterior of block with remaining white frosting. This layer of frosting volition be thin and block will exist visible through frosting. Once frosted, air-condition cake thirty minutes. (This is called a crumb coat and volition preclude crumbs from interfering when pipe rosettes.)
STEP 7

Identify each tinted frosting into individual resealable plastic food bag; push frosting to one corner. Cutting off 1/2 inch from tip of corner. Identify 18-inch-long piece of plastic food wrap onto counter surface. Pipe each color onto plastic wrap to course broad 12-inch horizontal lines (using all of frosting) that are touching.
Footstep eight

Gently curlicue frosting lines into one large log using plastic wrap. Snip tip off 1 end of plastic wrap. Place cut-side downwardly into pipe bag fitted with size 1M open-star tip. Pipe rainbow rosettes onto cake showtime with middle of top of block and working out and down sides so the most vibrant colors are on top of cake.