Rainbow Cake is an overseas guest at our table. It was born thanks to the well-known American manufacturer of confectionery dyes and flavors. The rainbow cake gained popularity among the general public, and many housewives learned how to cook it using home-made analogues of colored food additives.

Classic rainbow cake with natural colors

In the original American recipe, chiffon sponge cake is painted in all colors of the rainbow with the help of natural gel dyes and layered with a creamy cheese cream.

For biscuit:

  • 550 g of flour;
  • 600 g of sugar;
  • 60 g of baking powder;
  • 20 g of salt;
  • 380 g of vegetable oil;
  • 10 yolks;
  • 16 proteins;
  • 360 ml of milk;
  • vanilla extract.

To prepare a dense meringue, you will need a few drops of lemon juice.

  1. Sift the dry ingredients and mix.
  2. Pour in butter, yolks and milk. Knead the dough.
  3. Separately, beat a very high-quality meringue.
  4. Pour dough on it in parts and mix with a spatula from the bottom up, as if wrapping it on a protein mass.
  5. The dough is divided into seven equal parts.
  6. Color each with food-grade natural dyes. It is advisable to use proven brands and carefully study the information on the package. Add gel pigment immediately to the dough, pour just a couple of drops and mix thoroughly. Dilute the water-soluble powder dye in a spoonful of milk.
  7. Do not grease or cover the parchment. Bake billets in molds of the same diameter. One dish is not enough, since while one cake is baking and cooling, the rest of the dough ceases and changes quality.
  8. Bake at 160 ºС for about an hour. The finished biscuit springs under the fingers and does not stain the wooden skewer.
  9. To prevent cake, don’t turn over the hot mold, but do not put on the board. From below, the biscuit should breathe.
  10. Separate the cooled cake with a knife from the walls and shake it out of the mold with a sharp blow.

Whip for cream:

  • 1 kg "Mascarpone";
  • 300 g of powdered sugar;
  • 400 ml cream;
  • vanilla extract.

To level the cake, you can prepare a slightly more dense cream, replacing the cream with butter. Cream for decor is traditionally white, for contrast with cakes.

It remains to collect the cake, observing the order of the colors of the rainbow in the dessert. Decorate and cool.

With rainbow glaze

In order not to overload the cake with cream, you can cover its surface with icing, painting it as bright as cakes.

Sugar icing is prepared without heating from icing sugar and water, in a ratio of 4: 1.

For chocolate glaze:

  • 200 g of white chocolate;
  • 200 g of powdered sugar;
  • 40 ml cream 30%.

Cooking:

  1. Heat until thickened.
  2. Beat well.
  3. Use warm until the mass has lost its ductility.

If you drop a few drops of different dyes into a container with glaze at a short distance from each other, and then pour the cake without stirring, you will get amazing abstract patterns.

Another option: divide the glaze into seven parts and color each in its own color. Apply colors alternately with stripes or make colored sectors on the cake.

Rainbow cake for children's birthday

No matter how manufacturers of industrial dyes praise their products, the intensely colored dessert causes concern among parents. Children's rainbow cakes should not only be bright, but also safe.

Chemical additives are easily replaced with natural pigments:

  • purple - blackberry;
  • blue - blueberries;
  • blue - cauliflower;
  • green - spinach;
  • yellow - egg yolk;
  • orange - carrots;
  • red - beets.

Well-filtered juice is added to the dough or cream. In small quantities, it will not affect the taste of the dessert.

Mixing three primary colors (red, yellow and blue) get any shades and colors. You can not combine the dyes themselves, you need to mix colored dough.

Some colors need to be strengthened or weakened:

  • Grate beets and stew with a spoon of water for 3 to 5 minutes. Add lemon juice.
  • Stew carrots, too, but in butter. Add turmeric.
  • Mix the yolk with a spoon of milk.
  • Blueberries in natural form give a purple tint, if you add soda - blue, with lemon juice - blue. You can use one ingredient for three cakes.

The disadvantage of natural pigments is that during heat treatment they lose brightness. Therefore, the baking time of colored cakes should be minimal.

Quick biscuit:

  • five eggs;
  • 100 g of flour;
  • 200 g of sugar.

The splendor of the cakes depends on the quality of the meringue, so you need to beat the protein to a thick dense foam.

  1. Beat whites separately, yolks - with sugar.
  2. Add the sifted flour to the yolks.
  3. Add pigment.
  4. Put the meringue and gently knead the dough, keeping its structure.
  5. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes.

To make the cake brighter, the layers of cream can also be painted. In it, natural pigment is preserved better.

Pancake treat

Using dyes from natural products, you can make a rainbow cake from pancakes. They bake very quickly and lose less color.

Ingredients:

  • 250 g of flour;
  • 500 ml of milk;
  • 4 eggs;
  • 60 g of sugar;
  • 50 g butter;
  • 50 g of vegetable oil.

Work Stages:

  1. Mix all the ingredients.
  2. Pour the dough evenly into seven containers.
  3. To color.
  4. Bake a few pancakes of each color.
  5. Cool.
  6. Layered cake with whipped cream, which can also be painted.

Jelly dessert

A particularly spectacular rainbow cake is obtained from multi-colored jelly with white yogurt layers.

For colored layers, prepared fruit jelly mixtures are used. A more useful and delicious cake is made from juices, the corresponding colors, with the addition of gelatin. Gelatin is bred according to the instructions.The solution is added to pomegranate, orange, peach, blueberry, blackberry juice and kiwi juice.

For the yogurt layer:

  • yogurt without additives;
  • powdered sugar;
  • gelatin.

First, the powder is dissolved in yogurt, then a gelatin solution is introduced. Beat the mixture without the need for air bubbles to remain in the cake.

  1. Grease the deep form with a thin layer of oil.
  2. Start assembly with purple or red. The first layer poured on the cake will be on top.
  3. Dilute the finished jelly or mix a serving of juice with a gelatin solution. Pour into the form. Gather foam from the surface with a spoon if it forms. Cool.
  4. When the first layer hardens, dilute a portion of yogurt, pour a white layer and also cool.

Fill for each new layer is prepared only when the previous one has frozen.

Each layer will require at least 3-5 hours, so the time must be calculated in advance. Taking into account the white layers and color layers, the rainbow cake will be assembled in no less than two to three days.

The finished cake can only be turned onto a serving dish. Before this, the bowl with the dessert should be immersed in hot water for a minute. Cut the dessert conveniently with a hot knife.

Rainbow cake from "I'm Tortodel"

In the version of the rainbow cake from the channel "I TORTodel" on Youtube, a light biscuit with impregnation and yogurt cream are offered.

On one cake:

  • two eggs;
  • 30 g of sugar;
  • 60 g of flour;
  • 10 g of starch;
  • 2 g of soda;
  • 5 g of baking powder;
  • gel dye.

Work Stages:

  1. Beat eggs with sugar.
  2. Add 3 drops of dye.
  3. Sift the dry ingredients into the egg mixture.
  4. Beat everything up again.
  5. Put the dough in a greased form.
  6. Bake in a preheated oven to 155 ºС for 15 minutes. If one form is used, then while one cake is baked, the dough is prepared for the next.
  7. Cut off the tops from the cooled cake.
  8. Dilute the condensed milk with water, approximately 1: 1.
  9. Soak all the cakes, but for the bottom use half as much impregnation.

Yogurt Cream:

  • 450 ml Bellaria confectionery cream;
  • 80 g of boiled condensed milk;
  • vanillin,
  • 300 g Miracle yogurt with peach-passion fruit flavor.

All ingredients cool to 2 - 3 ºС.

  1. Beat cream with condensed milk and vanilla in a thick cream.
  2. Add yogurt and beat everything again. The resulting composition will remain small pieces of fruit from yogurt.
  3. Cool the cream.
  4. Make a cake.

Recipe from Julia Small

Culinary blogger Julia Small offers to make a rainbow cake for themed CandyBar’s for a children's party.

On one cake:

  • 40 g butter;
  • 40 g of sugar;
  • egg;
  • 70 g of flour;
  • 5 g of baking powder;
  • 2 g of salt;
  • 20 g of milk;
  • vanillin;
  • water based gel dye.

All products should be warm, about 20 ºС.

  1. Mix and sift all dry ingredients: flour, salt, baking powder and vanillin.
  2. Beat softened butter with sugar at maximum mixer speed.
  3. Add an egg. Beat the mixture thoroughly after each ingredient, reducing power.
  4. Pour in half the flour.
  5. Pour in milk.
  6. Pour in the remaining flour.
  7. Add one drop of dye. After baking, the color of the cake will be more intense than the color of the dough, so the dye is used in small quantities.
  8. Cover the bottom of the form with parchment. Do not lubricate the sides, excess fat will prevent the biscuit from rising.
  9. Smooth the dough with a spatula - it is thick and slowly spreads.
  10. Bake in a preheated to 180 ºС oven for 20 - 25 minutes.
  11. Cool the cake on the wire rack. Cut off the convex tip and too tanned sides.

Cakes made according to this recipe retain freshness for three days. Cut tops can also be stored in the refrigerator, wrapped with plastic wrap, and used later for another dessert.

Whipped ganache for a layer:

  • 85 g of white chocolate;
  • 200 g of heavy cream.

Cream preparation:

  1. Heat half the cream without boiling.
  2. Pour the pieces of chocolate with hot liquid and dissolve them, gently mixing.
  3. Add the second half of the cream.
  4. Cover with foil “in contact”.
  5. Refrigerate for 6 hours before whipping.
  6. Beat to density, gradually increasing the speed of the mixer.
  7. Collect and decorate the cake.

Bright dessert will surprise guests and give them a rainbow-colored mood.

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