Rainbow Pop Celebration Cake

  ✂︎

Favorite

Comment

List

       

Share

• Step 1

  OK, each layer here needs to be made separately, so
  melt a large knob of butter (5g) and 35g marshmallows
  together in a pan with 1 teaspoon of food colouring.
  Make sure you get the good food colouring from the
  baking store, as the ones from the supermarkets are
  good but might not be as vibrant and will tone down the
  scale of the celebration – meaning less presents.

• Step 2

  Add 40g Rice Krispies and mix well. Press the
  coloured cereal into a 22cm round cake tin with the
  back of a metal spoon. This can be quite messy as the
  marshmallow is very sticky and has the consistency of
  spider webs, so cover the mixture with baking paper
  before smoothing over the paper. Repeat this process
  with every colour of the rainbow. If you have only one
  cake tin you can keep the layers separate with pieces
  of baking paper. Make sure you keep the layers in the
  fridge as you make each one.

• Step 3

  To make the frosting, beat the butter with an electric
  mixer until soft, then add the marshmallow fuff and
  beat further. Next, add half of the icing sugar and mix
  until smooth, then add the remaining icing sugar. Use a
  small amount of the icing to cement the layers together;
  remember to do them in the correct order according
  to the colours of the rainbow. That is not the rhyme:
  ‘red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange
  and blue, I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a
  rainbow, too’, ’cause these are not the correct colours.
  This is one of the frst things we learn in life which
  isn’t true, and this is why we have trust issues! The
  correct order is: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
  violet (Richard of York gave battle in vain).

• Step 4

  Once you have built your cake, spread the frosting over
  the top and sides of the entire cake but leave some
  to add to your piping bag to fnish off. If you need to
  smooth the frosting you can run a metal knife under
  very hot water, dry it with a cloth and use the back
  to smooth it down. Finish off by piping the remaining
  frosting around the corners and decorate with wee
  swirly bits. Scatter some hundreds and thousands,
  because once I presented this and was asked why
  I had made a mashed-potato cake!

Comments

Leave your comment