So I thought to myself, “David, what good is a free Friday evening? Going out and having fun? Hahahaha, surely you jest. Instead it was baking.”
Pride was coming up, so a rainbow cake struck me as appropriate. Also, it takes an obscene amount of work. So I started baking multiple layers of cake.
I decided not to do a mixed cake, so I figured I would instead due a multilayered cakes with multiple rounds. I figured I’d do two rounds of each color just in case because if one round went bad, you would need a back up to keep the cake from being ruined.
Ew, those cakes look ugly. And not terribly rainbow-y. This is the result of something known as the Maillard Reaction. And those of you that don’t want to read that link, it’s basically “When you cook something it gets browner.” Mixing some colors in while the cake is browning will get some weird looks. But fear not color-purists, pleasant visual stimulation remains inside as you can see below.
I cut the cake tops off, to make perfectly layered rounds, and wow, you can see the differentiation from the Malliard’ed outside of the cake and the pure vibrant colors inside. These aren’t going to be part of the cake, but they look cool.
For those of you wondering what to do with cake tops, well, I use them to munch on to taste the cake but also to create a bunch of cake crumbs which we will save for later.
Once I was done, I started frosting the cakes… wait, did I say cakes? Yes, I did. Because remember how I said I wanted to do 2 of each cake layer incase one didn’t come out correctly? Surprise! They all came out perfectly T.T:
Yup, two cakes. Each with a slightly different frosting. One was a Vanilla Bean Brandy and the other was a Green Tea Latte cake. I personally liked the Green Tea better, but most people liked the vanilla more. Oh well, more for me.
Of course, the real test is in the cut, how do they look then?
It plates really really well. And tasted great. Keen eyes will notice that Purple was on the top in one cake and Red was on the top in the others. Yet a further differentiation between the two.
Special thanks to Will for helping me make these cakes. He saved me an obscene amount of time that Friday night. 