Pink Ombre petal cake

This is shared by Tiffany Koong from MFWL. The cake is super soft and yummy ! This is actually a trial practice for my gal 's birthday coming up in late May. This is actually my first attempt doing a cake. I am not a very patient person and this cake took me a while to complete it. But the effects are really stunning when you have completed the whole cake.


Ingreds:

170g butter, unsalted
1 3/4cups of sugar ( to reduce as this is too sweet, use about 220g)
2 large eggs
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/2 vanilla bean, scraped(optional)
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
312g of cake flour
305g of fresh milk
Wilton colour gel ( Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet)

Method:

1) In a medium bowl, mix together salt, baking powder and flour. Stir to combine then set aside
2) Weigh the mixing bowl from the electric mixer and note down the weight of the mixing bowl.
3) Cream butter and sugar together in the mixing bowl, then add in eggs, one at a time. add vanilla extract and the seed of half a vanilla bean. Beat until well combined.
4) Alternately add the dry ingreds and the milk to the butter/sugar mixture. Start with flour and end with flour.
5) Weigh the mixing bowl with the batter inside. Minus the weigh of the mixing bowl to get the weight of the batter.
6) Divide the batter into 6 bowls. Colour the batter with the colour gel.
7) Grease and line the baking tin with baking paper.
8) Pour the individual coloured batter into each individual cake tin. ( depend on your oven space, can bake 2-3 tins at one go)
9) Bake at 170'C for 18-20mins or till toothpick come out clean
10) Cool the cake in baking tin for 5mins and remove to cool at wire rack
11) Wash and dry the baking tin with kitchen paper then grease and line the baking tin with baking paper again. Repeat step 8-10 till all the coloured batter finished baking
Finally, once all the rainbow cake cooled down completely, you can start frosting and deco your rainbow cake

 

For my version, I only divide into 3 bowls as I only want 3 colours only.

As for the frosting , I am using frosty whip to frost this cake.

 

For details to do the petal effects, you can refer to the video below:

 

http://youtu.be/WASVWn4nN6w