How To Make A Colorful Cake?
Creating a colorful cake is not much different than creating a regular cake. All you need to do is add a few drops of food dyes and use a little imagination. The best type of food coloring for cake batters is gel food colors, particularly gel paste dyes, as it creates vibrant and saturated colors. However, it is too easy to add of a gel paste dye in excess, which can completely mess up the flavor profile of your cake. Here is a recipe to avoid such a mistake:Pre-Baking Prep
- Get your cake pan ready by greasing the sides and laying down parchment paper in the middle.
- You can also preheat your oven in the meantime.
- Now, combine all the dry ingredients, baking powder, flour, and salt using a whisk.
- In another bowl, whisk up all the wet ingredients, including butter, vegetable oil, and sugar.
- Beat these wet ingredients until you get a light, fluffy consistency.
- Add two eggs while whisking the mixture.
- Then, slowly add the dry ingredient mixture to the batter while mixing until you reach the perfect consistency.
Baking
- Take note of how many colors you wish to incorporate into your cake, and then divide the batter according to the color pallet.
- Add a few drops of different kinds of gel food dye into each bowl.
- Fold the batter to mix in the food dye.
- Keep in mind not to add too much, as it might ruin the consistency or taste of the cake.
- Pour the colorful batter into separate cake pans.
- Each cake pan will serve as a layer of your colorful cake.
- Bake for around half an hour.
- Put a toothpick in it to check if the batter sticks.
- Take it out of the oven if the toothpick comes out clean; otherwise, let it bake for a few more minutes.
Post-Baking Assembly
- Allow the cakes to cool before moving on to assembling the cake.
- If you want your frosting to be colorful as well, all you need to do is add a little food dye and then fold the icing until the color blends out.
- Cut off the domes from the top of the cakes so that they lay flat.
- Place a layer of cake on a cardboard cake circle or cake plate.
- Put at least one cup of frosting on the cake and spread it evenly.
- Then, add the second cake layer, followed by the second layer of frosting.
- Continue this process until you have completely constructed your cake.
- Now, cover it in frosting and level it.
- At this point, you have a colorful cake for yourself, and you are free to decorate it however you like.