Cooking Series: Edible Flower Recipes, Natural coloured rainbow cake with edible flowers

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August 13, 2014

Natural coloured rainbow cake with edible flowers

I wanted to create a rainbow cake with natural flavours and colours rather than using food colouring as i know some people can not have artificial colours and flavours.

each layer is coloured and flavoured naturally,

the green layer is flavoured and coloured with matcha green tea

the yellow layer is coloured and lemon and an egg yolk

the orange layer is coloured and flavoured with carrot and orange

the pink layer is coloured and flavoured with strawberries and beet powder

the purple layer is flavoured and coloured with blueberries and blackberries

if your partner is a clean freak like mine then i suggest you make this when hes a work because you are going to get a load of dishes and your kitchen is going to look a mess while you bake it im not going to lie lol.

Recipe

• 220g butter 2 sticks / 1 cup

• 220g self raising flour 1 3/4 cups

• 220g caster sugar 1 cup plus 1 tbsp

• 4 eggs

• 1 tsp matcha green tea

• zest of one lemon and juice of half

• zest of 1 orange and a tbsp of juice

• 1 carrot cooked and pureed into a paste

• strawberries

• blueberries

• blackberries

• vanilla extract

You will need 3 pans one to cook the carrot in boiling water and the other two to cook the

 blueberries and strawberries (i added a few blackberries with the blueberries too).

Add the 1/3 cup blueberries and 1/2 cup chopped strawberries into the pans with a tbsp of water and 2 tbsp of sugar and reduce until you get a thick liquid, strain through a sift into separate bowls and let cool, once the carrot is cooked (test with a fork it should be soft) puree it in a blender.

Pre heat the oven to 350f 180c

Grease and line 5 tins, this recipe is for 5 small tins (9 inch tins i think)

Cream together the butter and sugar then add two or the eggs, separate the yolks from the other two and keep to one side but add the whites to the mixture and continue mixing, add the vanilla extract then fold in the flour.

Separate the mixture into five and add the strawberry puree and beetroot powder to one (beet juice also works) add some extra chopped strawberries add the matcha green tea to another, add one of the yokes to the orange layer with the pureed carrot and orange zest/juice add the other to the yellow layer with the lemon, add the blueberry puree to the final lot of batter and add some more whole blueberries bake for approx 25 mins

 let cool.

For the frosting

approx 2 cups or 400ml double cream

100g cream cheese or 7 tbsp

50g icing sugar approx half cup

    

Whip the cream with the icing sugar this thick then add the cream cheese, add more icing sugar depending on how sweet you like it, add some frosting between each layer and build it up i did it starting with purple, then pink, orange, yellow and green.

Use a spatula and cover the cake then add the flowers like colourful confetti

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