Holi cake...For the Festival of colours

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Holi cake...For the Festival of colours

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A very happy Holi to all my readers and friends....For Holi , I made this colorful cake....The cake was the Basic Sponge cake, which is one of my very old recipe and has never failed me....I experimented by coloring the batter in various colors and making a colorful cake. In my previous post, I made...

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Ingredients

Serves :
  • 1 cup all purpose flour-


  • 1 cup sugar-


  • 3 eggs-


  • 12 cups butter-


  • 1 tsp baking powder-


  • 12 tsps baking soda-


  • 1 tsp vanilla extract-


  • food colors-i used yellow, green, magenta, and blue


  • 12 cups water-


  • 12 cups sugar-


  • 1 tsp vanilla extract-


  • 3 cups whipping cream-


  • 1cup confectioner's sugar-


  • 1 tsp vanilla extract-

Directions

  • Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees
  • Grease and line an 8" pan
  • Mix all purpose flour, baking powder and baking soda and keep aside
  • Beat egg and sugar till light and fluffy ( approx 2-3 minutes)
  • Add butter and beat
  • Add flour and vanilla extract and mix well
  • Divide the batter in 4 parts in separate bowls
  • Add one food color to each bowl
  • Pour the batter from one bowl in the center 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
Neha

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