Rainbow cake

This rainbow cake is a very easy to make and impressive birthday cake or holiday fun cake. The cake can be made the day before and iced a few hours before serving

Ingredients

  • 1 cake mix with icing

    The author used Basco Gluten-free golden butter cake, 470g

  • Extra ingredients for cake and icing

    eggs, butter, water, milk

  • 340g Smarties

    packet

  • 1 bag gold foil chocolate coins

Allergy Advice

Contains Dairy

Contains Eggs

Contains Gluten

Contains Nuts

Contains Soy

Equipment

  • 1 20cm ring tin
  • 1 baking paper
  • 1 metal spoon
  • 1 wire rack
  • 1 small bowls

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180C. Grease a 20cm ring tin and line with baking paper.
  2. Prepare cake mix according to directions and spoon into cake tin, smooth top with back of metal spoon.
  3. Bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
  4. Turn onto a wire rack to cool.
  5. Prepare icing according to directions.
  6. Sort smarties into colours.
  7. Trim the top of the cake so it is flat and cut in half to make two rainbows.
  8. Transfer cakes to serving plates. Spread with icing and decorate with smarties rainbow-style.
  9. Divide gold coins between two small bowls at the end of the rainbows.

Notes

Tip
The 340g pack should give you enough smarties of each colour to do one cake in the proper colours.
Tip
Don’t ice more than 4 hours before serving because the smarties go soggy.
Variation
A gluten-free cake mix can be used for this cake, although the smarties are not strictly gluten-free.
Storage
The cake can be made the day before and iced a few hours before serving.

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