My Gluten Free Rainbow Piñata Cake

I decided to make this rainbow piñata cake for Coeliac Awareness Week 2019 to spread positivity about Coeliac Disease as there is always a rainbow at the end. Once you start your gluten free diet it is just something you get used to and learn as you go along. I personally feel a lot healthier since I was diagnosed Coeliac two years ago.

I posted this a couple of days ago and it was SO popular and a lot of you requested the recipe so here it is! This cake was so moist and delicious, sometimes with gluten free cakes they are really crumbly but this one wasn't, I hope it goes well for you guys!

Ingredients for the cake:

• 390g soft butter
• 390g caster sugar
• 6 eggs (I bought medium)
• 390g self raising flour (I used doves farm)
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
• 5 colours of food colour flavouring (I bought a pack from Sainsburys which was called 'gel food colours' and it has been designed for making rainbow cakes, it was something like £2.25 which was a lot cheaper than buying the food colouring individually) I used green, blue, pink, orange and yellow.
• 3 x 20cm round cake tins (I bought mine from TK Maxx, but if you don't have any loads of shops sell them like supermarkets, amazon etc)
• Baking parchment paper 
• Sweets (I bought haribos, haribo strawbs and minstrel for mine but you can put whatever sweets you like in it!)

Ingredients for the butter cream icing:

• 400g soft butter
• 3 teaspoons of vanilla extract
• 800g icing sugar

Method:

1. Firstly, pre-heat your oven to 160c fan or 180c conventional oven.
2. Secondly, you will need to grease your 3 cake tins and line the bottom of them with baking parchment paper.
3. Next, mix all of your cake ingredients together and make sure that you mix until you get a smooth consistency. With your flour I would use a sieve to get this into the bowl so there are no lumps.
4. Once all the cake mixture is mixed and is smooth, you will then need to divide the cake mixture evenly between 3 bowls.
5. Once you have divided the cake mixture evenly, you then need to put one colour in each of your bowls (I used first the green, blue and red but you can use whichever colours you like first!)
6. You will then need to pour your 3 different coloured cake mixtures into each cake tin.
7. Next, bake your cakes in your oven for 25 minutes. You will know they are cooked if you put a knife into cake, if it comes out with mixture on the knife it is not quite cooked yet, but if it comes out with no mixture on it will be cooked. I would also not open the oven door whilst the cake is cooking.
8. Then, you will need to take these out to cool. I left mine for about an hour to cool.
9. Next, make your second batch of cake mixture these will be for the next two cakes.
10. Repeat the separating process into two bowls and use your final two colours.
11. Then, put these into your cake tins and bake again for 25 minutes.
12. Next, once baked take these out to cool down for about an hour again.

Method for the icing and decoration:

1. For the icing, you will need to mix all of your icing mixture together until it makes a smooth consistency into butter icing.
2. Next, put one of your cakes on your cake stand and cut the middle of that out with a cookie cutter or anything you can get your hands on!
3. Then, spread some of your butter icing over the top of the cake.
4. Next, cut out the middle of 3 of your other cakes, repeat the process of putting icing on top of the cake and placing the other cake on top.
5. Then, before you put the final cake on top, fill the middle of the stack of cakes with all of your sweets.
6. Finally, put your 5th cake on top of the stack of cakes (you do not cut the middle of the cake out on this one)
7. Then, spread the rest of your icing all over the cake and I sprinkled coloured stars all over but you can use whatever you like to decorate it with!
8. I then left the cake overnight to set in the fridge, once set you can then cut a slice out of the cake and your sweets will fall out like a piñata!!

I hope you enjoy this recipe and remember to tag me in your posts if you do make it! 😁

Danielle x

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