Holi cake (For the Festival of Colours)
Ingredients
- All purpose flour-1 cup
- Baking powder-1 tsp
- Baking soda-1/2 tsp
- Sugar-1 cup
- Eggs-3
- Butter-1/2 cup
- Vanilla extract-1 tsp
- Food colors-I used yellow green, magenta, and blue
- For Soaking syrup
- Water-1/2 cup
- Sugar-1/2 cup
- Vanilla extract-1 tsp
- For Frosting
- Whipping cream-3 cups
- Confectioner's sugar-1cup
- Vanilla extract-1 tsp
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 degree C
- Grease and line an 8" pan
- Mix all purpose flour, baking powder and baking soda and keep aside.
- Beat egg and sugar until light and fluffy ( approx 2-3 minutes)
- Add butter and whisk well
- Add flour and vanilla extract and mix well
- Divide the batter in 4 parts in separate bowls
- Add one food color to each bowl and mix well
- Pour the batter from one bowl in the centre of the pan
- Pour batter from another bowl on top of the first batter
- Keep pouring the batter on top of the previous batter until you are out of batter
- Tap the pan on the slab once
- Bake for 30-35 minutes
- Cool the cake in the pan for 5 minutes
- Take out from the pan and cool on a cooling rack
- Soaking syrup:
- Mix all the ingredients and cool
- Whipped cream:
- Add all the ingredients in a bowl and whip till cream forms stiff peaks
- Assembly:
- When the cake is cooled, cut it into half
- Brush one half with half of the soaking syrup and spread 1 cup of whipped cream on top of it
- Cover with the other half
- Brush with the remaining soaking syrup
- Cover with a layer of frosting ( this is called crumb coat )
- Decorate the cake with the remaining cream
- I have divided the cream in 4 parts and colored it with different colors and use it for frosting the cake