This post has been lurking in my 'to-do' list for the last month, forgive the time delay and enjoy!
So tonight's the night. The night I bake a cake for little owls 2nd birthday.
I have, um, not a lot of experience in the cake baking department but have somehow set my ambitions quite high this year.
I blame pinterest.
If I succeed I will be a cake baker extraordinaire.
If I fail?
I will be quite sad and pop to the supermarket on the way home.
Or get papa owl to bake one.
The cakes I have made have always come out a bit wonky so I thought I would have a go at a hemisphere one from Lakeland.
And I some how got it into my head that it would be really pretty if I baked a rainbow cake.
You know - those really pretty ones you see on pinterest? Those tricky looking cakes...
Now the idea with pinterest is that people share tutorials on all these
wonderful ideas, but for a novice like me, I was a bit scared to look, what if they were too hard?
So I buried my head in the sand and sailed up that famous river in Egypt.
But last weekend I realised I would be sad if I didn't at least try so I
quickly ordered myself some pretty food colourings from and started
seeking advice from my friends on facebook.
The cake tin said it needed a 6 egg recipe. I have been told that you
double the value for eggs and that gives you the ounces for butter self
raising flour and caster sugar. This is very much like a D grade maths
GCSE question.
My plan is to make up a mixture for each egg, add the food colouring and
then start again with the next mixture. 6 eggs = 6 colours, 7 in a rainbow but who can tell the difference between indigo and violet anyhow!
I'm a bit worried it won't fit but I've measure the tin and know it
holds 3 pints so I'm going to check that the mixture for 1 egg is less
than 1/2 a pint (been told also to aim for 2/3s full as cake should rise
- haha!)
Wish me luck!
Recipe
1 egg
2oz flour
(1/2 teaspoon of baking powder)
2 oz sugar
2 oz butter
Don't the colours look fab! And the best bit is - they were going to fit in the mixing bowl!
So now it was time to put it in the oven and wait... it felt like such a long wait...
I was pretty please with the result, it looked like the colours had merged, they weren't the straight lines I was hoping for, but it did appear to still have some variance in its colours, so all was not lost, and besides - I'm a novice - I'm just pleased there was cake that looks like it was edible. I covered it in chocolate, sprinkles, silver balls and a lion - Little Owl's favourite things - at least the shape wasn't a failure!
But then... when I cut into the cake and found....
Isn't this the best cake you have EVER seen?!!!! And it tasted amazing too! I'm chalking this one up as a success!
