Rainbow Layer Cake

As you know my son had an Easter party recently and for the table centre piece I made a rainbow layer cake which I must say, everyone including all the children were very impressed with :)) its actually pretty simple to make compared to how it looks so I wanted to share this very tasty recipe for you all to enjoy :))

Rainbow layer cake

To make 3 sponges -
225g very soft butter
225g caster sugar
175g self-raising flour
85g ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
3 eggs
150ml natural yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extract

Food colours
Red- 1-2tbsp cocoa and then add the red
Pink, blue, green, yellow, orange and purple

Icing
1 tsp vanilla extract
375g cream cheese
375g mascarpone
200g icing sugar

Pre heat the oven to 180C/160C fan. Grease bases of 3 x 20cm cake tins.
mix all the ingredients together and split into three and add your first three colours. Pour into the tins and bake for 20 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean.

Repeat this with three more colours

For the final colour, divide the recipe by three and use for your final colour

Leave all the sponges to cool, I left mine overnight wrapped individually in clingfilm and they were perfect for stacking.

Mix all the icing ingredients together but don't over mix as it becomes thinner and runnier the more you mix it.

Place one layer on a serving plate and coat with a small amount of the icing and top with another layer, repeat until all layers are stacked and coat the whole cake in a thin layer of the icing, place in the fridge so that the first layer of icing can harden and you are then ready to cover the cake again