TROLLS RAINBOW DRIP CAKE RECIPE

Hi guys it is becky here welcome to my virgin kitchen we are not in the kitchen today barry
has brought me out to the beach and it is freezing it is really cold, today I am showing
you how to make the most amazing rainbow tie dye coloured drip cake it is so colourful
and I am really proud of myself that I managed to achieve this this was not just any cake
this was a cake for chloe�s fifth birthday so it had to be covered in trolls and really
bright colours, I really hope you give this a go.
If you do want to give this a go check out the ingredients and method over on myvirginkitchen.com
the first thing I did was make 2 chocolate and 2 vanilla sponge cakes you have seen me
make these before on the easy chocolate cake and Victoria sandwich recipe we will put links
to those videos up here and down below and also in those recipe videos are how to make
the buttercream that we are going to use, first up we get a cake stand we have one with
a spinning top which makes icing cakes so easy, grab a cake board and place on top then
get a small amount of buttercream icing now you are going to begin layering your cakes,
put the first sponge on top of that, followed by some buttercream then just alternate the
sponges filled with buttercream until you are at the top with your cake.
So the first layer of buttercream around your cake is called a crumb layer now I have never
done a crumb layer before but I found out the reason you do a crumb layer is to latch
all the crumbs onto the side of the cake so they stay in place, so when you do your final
layer of icing those crumbs do not show through.
Do your best to get it as smooth as you can then leave the cake to chill for about 20
minutes in the fridge.
We would have put ours in the fridge but it was freezing that day so our conservatory
was just as cold as a fridge.
So we put ours out there, but anywhere that is cold is fine to keep the cake.
Once the cake is nice and chilled do another layer of buttercream but this time you want
it to be that little bit thicker so go around the sides then get it nice and smooth, as
you get it nice and smooth you will probably find a lot of buttercream will come off, then
do a nice thick layer over the top of the cake.
This is where you want to get your buttercream smooth around the cake take your time either
use a flat pallet knife or we used a cake scraper which was amazing I have never used
one before I did not even know we had one until barry got it out of the drawer.
We have had one for years but never used it.
It made it so easy to get it nice and smooth.
You are then going to leave that to chill again for another 20 minutes then you can
begin the fun coloured part of the cake, divide the icing into five bowls, hello, alright
it is cold, so we used blue, purple, yellow, pink and orange for our colouring, once your
coloured buttercream is ready this is where you can make the cake look amazing get a small
amount of any colour you want to begin with just gently put it on the side of the cake.
Do this with each colour just alternate it put the colours all over the cake you want
to get it completely covered in spots of yellow icing it did look like it had a spotty disease
or colourful mould going on, I think it should have stayed like that, it did look pretty
cool all the coloured icing around the cake.
Once the cake is covered in buttercream icing grab the spatula or cake scraper, just hold
it at the side and gently spin the cake around so all the buttercream icing merges into one
and you have a tie dye thing going on, once you have been around one way you go back around
the other way and that gives an even better effect they are all merged in together and
it looks really effective, really cool.
Do not worry if when scraping around a lot of buttercream comes off that is fine, just
scrape it to the side, but keep going around, when I did it I got my cake nice and smooth
but I did notice I had some gaps, and some holes where I had not put enough icing on
so I just got a small amount of any colour put it in the gaps and I put my flat spatula
in some warm water and just smoothed those holes the last bit you are going to make is
the chocolate ganache I broke up some pieces of white chocolate, put them in a bowl, then
poured over some cream, then blasted it in the microwave for a minute or so and then
gave it a good stir together.
You just want to get that chocolate all nice and melted.
I then changed it to pink so I added In a bit of food colouring, I did not have the
oil based food colouring and because we are putting it in chocolate we use that so I added
a drop of vegetable oil and gave it a good mix together, that will mean that the chocolate
will not seize.
You are then going to pour a small amount onto the top of the cake, you can put it quite
close to the edge, but just gently push it over the edge so it creates a drip effect
then do that all around the edge of the cake until you have drips coming down, then pour
the rest of the ganache very carefully so it covers the top of the cake.
So I wanted long drips down my cake to look like troppy floll hair?!
Troppy floll, fluffy troll hair but if you want shorter drips going down let the ganache
sit for 5 minutes so it is not as runny, so you should just get smaller drips going down.
Let that firm up for a few minutes then you can just add your decorations on top, we went
for trolls of course we had troll figures we did a little 5 with some smarties and added
some rainbow strip sweets.
There we go our cake was done and I was so pleased with it but this is my first time
making anything like this and was really pleased chloe loved it and it tasted amazing too so
please give this a go if you do send us your pictures we would love to see how you get
on, do not forget to follow us on all social media and we will see you again next time,
bye!

TROLLS RAINBOW DRIP CAKE RECIPE

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