Classic white cake

I used this recipe as a base for my rainbow cake. The fine moist crumb of this cake complements any type of filling and frosting makes for the perfect celebratory cake. This recipe makes 12 cups of batter enough to fill two 9"X13" pan. So u scale down to your needs.

Ingredients

• 6 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 tablespoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups butter or margarine
• 3 cups sugar
• 2 cups milk
• 1 1/4 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
• 12 egg whites

Method

Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease bottom of pans and line with waxed paper. 

Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar together until light and

fluffy. Set aside.

Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry. Set aside.

With a mixer at slow speed, add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with milk.

Beat well after each addition. 

Beat in vanilla extract.

Fold egg whites into batter.

Pour into prepared pans. Bake until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

Rainbow birthday cake

I made this cake for my friends son's second birthday. I wanted to share how I made the number 2 rainbow cake. So here it goes...


I love baking from scratch; it brings me a lot of joy and it simply tastes better to me. But if you're not as into baking, you can always use boxed cake mix. Start by choosing your favorite white or yellow cake recipe/mix. I used a classic white cake with white chocolate butter cream filling and butter cream frosting.  Since i was not having number 2 pan i made three 9"X13" cake sheets and carved number 2 from that. Before going into carving just we will see how to make a rainbow cake.


Whatever cake you decide on (white or yellow will take the colors fine!), once the batter is made, divide it equally into six bowls. since i was using 9"X13" pan i made a 6 cups batter so that i will have a cup of batter for each color. Then mix in the rainbow colors -- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Gel food coloring works great since it gives more vibrant color than liquid food colors. But surely if u wont have gel food colors liquid will work as fine.

This was the step that mystified party guests. The colors definitely will stay separated so long as you just drop them in; don't try to spread and mix them or else you'll probably create mud! Simply drop a colored batter in the middle of a pan. 

We decided to start with red as the bottom color in a pan. 

As you proceed with each color, just drop in the middle of the pan over colors. 

At the end I rotated a pan between my palms quickly to spread the batter. If you are making in a two 9" or 8" pan just divide batter as three colors per pan starting red as a bottom color in a pan and purple as a bottom color in other pan. So when u fill and stack the cake u will get rainbow color sequence.

And that's it! Once the batter is dropped, simply follow your recipe's instructions for baking and cooling. Look how pretty this came out!

To give a height to the cake i made three layers of a cake. I filled white chocolate butter cream in each layer.I kept the cake in a fridge for an hour so that it will firm up a little and easy for carving as well. 

I downloaded a A4 size number 2 template. Now transfer it onto a wax paper and arranged it on a cake.

Now cut the cake accordingly and arrange it in number 2. I joined the pieces with the help of butter cream and since the cake was bit heavy i inserted a dowel at the joints. 

Crumb coat the cake and keep in a fridge for a hour or so.  Now just frost your cake with your choice of frosting and decorate.

I made a train track and fondant train to go onto the cake. For the bottom cake border i used M&M and arranged them in a particular color pattern. 

When we cut into each of these cakes I freaked out a little. It looked so cool! You can make a rainbow cupcake with this batter too. Just use a spoonful of each color per cupcake.Enjoy...!!

Baby shower cake

One of my friend ordered a surprise baby shower cake for her friend. Since the mom going to be don't know its a boy or a girl we tried to include all colors. The bottom layer of the cake was a 8' devils food cake filled with  a vanilla butter cream and covered in a marshmallow fondant. And the top layer was a 6'' vanilla cake filled with chocolate whipped cream and covered in a marshmallow fondant. All animals and blocks were made out of modeling chocolate. Will soon try to upload a new post on making modeling chocolate, animals and marshmallow fondant.

Wilton cake decorating course cakes

After making my first cake i wanted to do the cake for my daughter's first birthday so i joined Wilton cake decorating course at Hobby lobby store. All he courses i did were amazing i learned so many new things u can do with icing, fondant and gum paste. 

This was the final cake for buttercream cake decoration course. I used a chocolate cake layer between two vanilla cake cake layers filled with raspberry preserve and covered with buttercream frosting. This time also i used store bought cake mix for baking cake.The recepi for frosting tought in the class.

                                         

It was a carrot cake covered in a fondant. all the elements were made out of fondant and gum paste mix. I really liked the fondant and gum paste they are just like a play dough u can do anything.

My very first decorated cake....

I made this cake for my wedding anniversary. First time i was going to bake a cake so i used store bought cake mix and a box of frosting. While icing the cake i thought oh god its so hard to decorate a cake...!I took complete 2 hrs to decorate this cake. But at the end everyone loved it so it made my day.