Name: Rosy rainbow cake
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 95 min
Yield: 14
Ingredients: 2 quantities or 2 x 340g packet basic butter cake mix; food colouring, pink, green; 1 tablespoon rosewater; 2 quantities basic buttercream; 1 cup white chocolate melts; wire butterflies, pink candles, to decorate

Rosy rainbow cake

Serves 14

Prep

Cook

35M

Total

1H 35M

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Ingredients

2 quantities or 2 x 340g packet basic butter cake mix

food colouring, pink, green

1 tablespoon rosewater

2 quantities basic buttercream

1 cup white chocolate melts

wire butterflies, pink candles, to decorate

Method

Rosy rainbow

1.Preheat oven to moderate, 180°C. Lightly grease and flour 4 shallow 20cm round cake pans.

2.Spoon 1/4 cake mixture into one pan. Divide remaining mixture into 3 bowls. Tint one lot pale pink, one dark pink and one pale green. Pour into pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until cooked when tested. Transfer to wire racks to cool. Trim cakes to create 4 flat cakes of the same thickness.

3.Beat rosewater into buttercream. Place dark pink cake on serving plate. Spread top with 1/3 cup buttercream. Repeat layers with green, plain and light pink cakes. Spread remaining frosting over top and side of cake.

4.Arrange white chocolate melts around cake base. Secure wire butterflies on and around cake and add candles to decorate.

Flavour each cake with a different essence, eg, strawberry, vanilla, lemon, orange blossom.
Note

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