My daughter’s new ‘phrase’ …. not sure, as pointed out by a sister earlier, if it’s Cockney Rhyming Slang for “let’s go”
…. or she just means, lets sparkle & be fabulous?! (I like the latter) 😉
When I asked her today if she would prefer regular zebra cake, or rainbow?…. obviously she shouted Rainbow!!!
So today, I’ll share my adapted recipe a friend gave me long ago for traditional Zebra Cake, spruced up & looking fabulously colourful! With the help of my trusty sidekick, we got Rainbow’d in the kitchen!!
Rainbow cake is an easy #Bishbashbosh fix & as delicious as it looks! It’s not overly sweet, moist, and just flavored with a hint of cocoa and vanilla! Making the stripes is easy & keeps the kids entertained …. You just need to seperate the batter into bowls…. add the colours, alternate them however you like! & boom! Rainbow cake baby!! So much fun (& mess) making this cake, but so worth it!
Ingredients –
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon (3 teaspoons) baking powder
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup milk, at room temperature
- 1 cup sunflower/veg oil or melted butter
- 2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder (I used Hersheys)
Directions –
- In a medium bowl, mix the flour, and baking powder.
- In a separate large mixing bowl, combine the eggs and sugar. Using a mixer, beat until the mixture is creamy and light in color, about 5 minutes, add the vanilla.
- Add the milk and oil/butter and continue to beat until just blended. If you are going to use vanilla extract instead of vanilla powder, add it to the mixture too.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and beat briefly, just until the batter is smooth and the dry ingredients are mixed in (DO NOT OVER-BEAT) The batter should be neither very thick nor too runnu.
- Divide the mixture into bowls, roughly equal portions… I just played by eye.
- Keep one portion plain vanilla.
- Add the cocoa powder & colours to all the other portions (one colour each portion, dont mix them) and stir to blend. (If the consistency of this batter is thicker, add just a little milk and stir).
- Preheat the oven.
- Lightly butter a cake pan and line it with baking paper if using .
- Scoop 3 tablespoons of the plain batter into the middle of the baking pan. Then scoop 3 tablespoons of the cocoa batter, then the next colour of your choice and pour in the center, on top of the plain batter. IMPORTANT: Do not stop and wait until the previous batter spreads—keep going!
- Do not spread the batter or tilt the pan to distribute the mixture—it will spread and fill the pan gradually. Continue alternating the batters until they finish.
- Bake on the middle rack of the oven for about 40 minutes. To check if the cake is ready, insert a knife in the center—it should come out clean when ready.
- Remove the cake from the oven
Allow to cool completely before slicing & enjoy! On it’s own, sprinkled with some icing sugar, or like me, with a nice dollop of Custard! (It’s not Ambrosia Devon Custard, but it’ll do!) 😍
This is so easy & versatile, I’ve even made this as a red velvet marble cake before, but that’s another post!! Enjoy! & let me know in the comments below what kinda stripes you’ve made?
~ThrifDee~
Yes!!! I measured out lots of dry ingredients to make nutella cookies only to find “someone” has eaten all the nutella. The dry ingredients I cant put back are exactly the same as this rainbow cake. So looks like another ‘lets rainbow’🌈 cake on its way 😁
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😂 sounds like a good enough reason to me! Lol
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My kids love rainbow cakes too… thanks for this recipe… my rainbow cakes are much simpler and don’t have many layers as yours🙂
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Yes…. lots of colour as ordered by the little lady!…. I prefer 2 or 3… but she had other ideas 😊
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That looks so good! And is a great idea to spend valuable time with kids.
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Looks so much fun! She made a good choice by going with rainbow 🙂 i wanna try this!
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My second cake recipe in 10 minutes. Clearly it means something (that I need to diet, probably)
Will def be rainbowing it up! I love that, it’s adorable.
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Let me know how they turn out! 😊👌
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Love the cake! I’ll be attempting this with my kids inshaa Allah 🙂 What I love is that it isn’t too complicated to make and it’ll keep them entertained and amused. Thanks for sharing. x
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I have tried once but havent with ny daughter. In shaa allah will try soon. A good way to introduce colours you see😍😚😙
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