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  • Welcome to howtocookthat I am Ann Reardon and this is an easy buttercream rainbow cake.

  • Firstly you need to make up your buttercream, the recipe for that is on the blog howtocookthat.net

  • there is a link in the description below this video. All you do is add the butter and icing

  • sugar, stir well then and whisk for about 5 minutes on high speed until it is pale and

  • fluffy. Add a tiny bit of milk but not much because you are going to be adding a fair

  • bit of liquid colour to get those bright rainbow colors.

  • Split two thirds of your frosting into 5 bowls and add your chosen colours to each bowl.

  • Now to get the really bright colours here you will have to add quite a bit of liquid

  • colour, so add it a tablespoon at a time until you get a colour you are happy with.

  • Then take each colour and place it into a plastic bag push it down into the corner and

  • twist the top to stop the icing from oozing out the top when you squeeze the bag.

  • Take half of the remaining uncoloured frosting and put that in a bag also.

  • Put your bottom layer of cake onto a plate and pipe a cirlce of uncoloured frosting around

  • the edge. Then you can either put buttercream in the middle as well or you can use a filling.

  • Here I am using home made lemon curd. Having the layer of buttercream around the edge helps

  • contain the filling and stops it from oozing out the side of the cake and effecting the

  • decorating. Repeat this with the next layer of cake as well. Then take a palette knife

  • and smooth the buttercream that is in the joins adding more if necessary. So you have

  • a nice flat finish.

  • Place a thin layer of buttercream on the top of your cake just to level it out.

  • Cut the corner off each of your coloured bags and then starting at the bottom pipe of blob

  • of each colour repeating them when you get to the top going through a pattern.

  • Take a spoon that's been dipped in hot water and push it sort of half way along the blob

  • and drag it across the cake. So just push it in and drag it across. Keep doing that

  • all the way up the cake. Then for your next row of blobs you need to

  • pipe the colour that was just above the one that you are currently doing on the previous

  • row. And continue in this pattern the whole way up. Use your spoon to spread them out

  • and keep piping and around the cake. On the top of the cake pipe blobs in a circle

  • shape smearing them one at a time. Until you have filled in all of the gaps.

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Welcome to howtocookthat I am Ann Reardon and this is an easy buttercream rainbow cake.

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