The Art of Miscellaneous: Color Bomb Cake

Have a day off from school, university or work, GOOD!!! here's a fun way to spend your day and impress everyone at home with your culinary skills

We are going to make a lovely colorful cake, the kind that looks super hard to make but in the end it's quite easy

Things you'll need:
a big mixing bowl
a whisk or electric beater
about 4 small bowls
food colors
spatula
baking pan
measuring cups

and of course an OVEN

Ingredients for the cake
3 eggs
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup oil
1 tsp baking powder
about 1/4 cup warm milk or cream
few drops vanilla essence

DIRECTIONS FOR CAKE
Break your eggs in a mixing bowl and whisk them until fluffy
Add sugar and oil and beat with an electric or hand beater until a smooth mixture is formed
Now slowly add the flour and fold it in the batter, also add baking powder and a few drops vanilla essence
Mix until the batter is smooth, but not too much or the cake will go hard

Warm 1/4 cup milk or cream and add to batter, this gives the cake a lovely soft texture, with a spatula gently mix the batter until the milk is incorporated in it

NOW BEGINS THE FUN PART..............................

so the cake I made had five colors in it: pink, turquoise, purple, green and yello
you can use whatever colors you like or have available

the batter we just made has to be divided in 5 portions now

so gently ladle batter into four small bowls and leave the same amount in the big mixing bowl as well so we have 5 equal portions of batter

now in each of these bowls add the colors you want in you cake, a few drops usually do the trick of giving a good shade but add as much as you need to make the color perfect, if you are using powdered food color be careful not too add too much because it can sometimes give a bitter taste to the cake.

Carefully mix in food color until it spreads uniformly throughout the batter

now it's time to grease your baking pan with oil or butter, if you aren't using non-stick pans then it's better to line the tin with butter paper.

I used one small round tin for my cake and had enough batter left to fill 6 cupcakes as well
but the shape and size of the cake you want is really up to you.

POURING THE BATTER

here's how we create those lovely color stripes in the cake

choose the color you want right at the edge of the cake

pour a little bit of batter (about 6-8 tbsp s) right in the center of you tin and let it spread out on it's own

I decided to pour in yellow first

now choose the second color and pour about the same amount as before, start pouring in the center and let it spread out on it's own, this way you will have two concentric circles in two colours

my second color was green, try pouring your batter in a thin stream that way u have a better chance of keeping the circle uniform.

It's better to keep a spatula in you hand so that the flow of batter can be stopped when you chose and the edge of bowl wiped with it to avoid any mess

now move towards the third color

the fourth color and then the fifth,

after this repeat the color cycle until the tin is filled to the desired height, try not to fill more than half of the tin and never more than 3/4 of it because the cake has to rise in the oven and if it's overfilled the batter will just spill down the sides

here's how mine looked after I was done pouring the batter

to bake the cake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees for at least 20 minutes, it's better to turn on the oven when you start making the batter that way it'll be nice and warm by the time you're done with the cake

Put the cake in, it should take about 20-25 minutes for it to bake, turn the heat down to abt 300-250 after the first 5 minutes, we don't want the outside of the cake to cook too quickly while the inside is raw

test with a toothpick after 20 minutes or when you feel like it's done

if the toothpick comes out clean then VIOLA!!!! your cake is ready.

DECORATION!!!

So this part of course is optional, most people prefer to eat their cake just as it's baked
but I like chocolate and strawberries so I had to use them, although my cake decoration is usually not so clumsy as this but well chocolate made it taste so much better :D

here's all the fattening sugary stuff I used to create my icing

About two tablespoons of Nutella spread, two tablespoons Hershey's dark chocolate syrup and whipped cream as much as you like

mix it all together and we have some delicious chocolate frosting

tip: if the nutella is giving you trouble while mixing, warm it up a little, melted chocolate will mix much better

now spread this on top of you cake and decorate with strawberries or smarties or whatever please you

mine turned out looking like this.

I admit the strawberries were a disappointment , they weren't as ripe as i'd have like them to be

here's another picture of the same cake I made a while ago, the decoration here is much better isn't it

to decorate this one, I used an egg white and sugar icing

it's very simple
all you have to do is beat one egg white until it's nice and fluffy, add to it one cup crushed sugar and mix well
now divide it into as many portions as you like and add food color to each

there you now have edible paint, grab a brush and paint you cake they way you want :D

The Leftover Batter

You don't necessarily have to have leftover cake batter, but since my round cake was made in a relatively low tin I had enough batter left to fill some cupcake tins, the same technique we used to fill the larger tin is used here as well

pour colored batter in the center one by one to form concentric circles