Rainbow Cake / Mirror glaze cake

June 14, 2020

Rainbow Cake / Mirror glaze cake

Rainbow is a dream cake of all kids. Children are excited to see various colours in there birthday cake and may God shower all the wonderful colours on them.

My daughter Ishita ,desperately wanted Rainbow cake for her 10th birthday.She had a various plans on her birthday related to Rainbow and I was behind to complete those all.I had never tried with so many colours on cake before and the search started for rainbow cake.Whenever we plan something ,we always has to be behind all the required ingredients, instuments,tins and gather those all before actually making it.This way I had multiple things in my mind before making rainbow cake.I had many tins ,but wanted one inch height tin so that each colour slice would come out well isolated and in uniform shape and thickness too.Also thought of pouring different colours of cake batter one on other but was scared of getting it mixed in every way whether baking it in otg or gas oven.Finally I decided and took a risk of making it in Microwave oven and that too in the lid of my borossil vessel which had a perfect height I needed . I generally use microwave to make instant cake whenever required during emergency.I use microwave on high option and my cake is done in 4-5 min.This runs a best option for me always.

Basic sponge was decided but now comes the question of frosting and decoration. Recently I saw mirror glaze cake online by Smitas classes and bingo ....It showed all the colours of rainbow and my mind set it all.

Tried Rainbow cake for the first time,some innovation ,some search,some of my kids ideas and it worked mind blowing and super delicious...

Ingredient....

For sponge...

Maida/all purpose flour -1+1/4 cup
Baking powder -1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Butter - 50 gms
Powered sugar - 1/4 cup
Condensed milk-1/3 cup
Milk/soda water - 1/2 cup
Vinegar - 1tsp
Vanilla essence - 1tsp

For Frosting...

Whipping cream - 2 cups

Pineapple crush

Kiwi crush

Orange crush

For Glaze...

White compound chocolate - 1/3 cup
Amul fresh cream - 1/3 cup
Glaze / neutral gel /transparent gel -1/3 cup
Liquid whipping cream - 2tbsp

Note- Remove all the ingredients from fridge and bring to room temperature before baking and making frosting.

Pictorial recipe...

Step 1 Making colourful sponge

Take 50 gms or 1/4 cup of melted butter in a bowl.

Sieve in 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.

Mix well till creamy smooth.

Add in 1/3 cup condensed milk.

Sieve in 1+1/4 cup of maida 👆 👇

1 tsp baking powder.

1/2 tsp baking soda.

Gradually add in milk .

Mix well.

Add 1/4 tsp Vanilla essence and 1 tsp of vinegar .....mix well.

Flowy consistency is needed👆

Our batter is ready.

Divide the batter in to five equal portions.

Add colour to each portion .

Red, yellow,blue, green, orange

Mix well.

Pour the batter into the well greased or lined with butter paper in a microvable container and microwave for 2 minutes on high.(my high is 900 ,so adjust the time accordingly)

(I have used lid of my borossil vessel,which has 1 inch height)

Demould the when cooled completely.

Similarly Microwave all the portion .

Microwave on high for 2 minutes.

Yellow cake

Here comes green

This way microwave all the five colour batter separately and our colourful spongs are ready.

Step 2 Now let's whip the cream...

For 1 kg cake ,take 2 cups of whipping cream in a chilled vessel and whip the cream with electric beater till stiff peak is formed.

Check the peak by inserting a spoon in the centre of the cream and it should stand and not fall.This indicates that our cream is well whipped.

Now take one slice on the cardboard base placed on the turn table and spray some water on the cake to add moisture to the sponge.(do not avoid this step because sponge will absorb all the water from cream and leave the cake dry)

Further... uniformly spread whipping cream with spatula.