Experienced cake bakers! Need your help :)

[toomanyshoes]

For DD's B'day this year I'm making her a giant cupcake cake and I wanted to do a "rainbow" in side.

Usually when you make a rainbow cake you bake 7 layers separately and then ice them together but obviously I can't with the shape of this tin.

So I was thinking I could pour one colour in, freeze it, pour the next colour and so on, then bake from frozen?

Do you think it would work? Or should I give up and just do a marble cake?

Thanks!

[Manhattan]

You are either game, or a really good baker! I did this cake for my dd's first birthday, and it almost got the better of me! It took me 13 hours to get one perfect bottom, and one near perfect top.

So I would prob say try the marble first, and see how you go with that, and then maybe do rainbow icing. I iced the top, and then for the bottom, I made a chocolate mould out of the cake tin for it to sit in, and it looked fabulous, even of I do say so myself ;P

Good luck, and I'm sure your DD will love whatever you make for her x

[toomanyshoes]

I'm going to coat the bottom in chocolate too, white with pink polka dots!

I'm starting to think pink and purple marble will be the way to go but I was keen to try a rainbow.

[Manhattan]

That will look just gorgeous! Are you going to coat it in choc, or make a mould? I found an awesome blog site with directions for a mould which is what I used. Was super easy, and saved fiddling with icing the bottom etc.

The directions are here if you are interested. I just used chocolate melts, and it worked a treat!

Pink and purple will look really pretty. If you have the skills though, give the rainbow a go! What have you got to lose??? And you get to munch on the trial cake

[toomanyshoes]

Rainbow cake is baking right now, so I'll see how it goes.

I was just going to flip the bottom, pour the white chocolate, set, then pipe the dots...hmm might have to think about it now looking at that site. thanks

[sloane]

i think limeslice has made a rainbow cake before - i'm sure i saw some on her fb - a giant cupcake & little ones. hopefully she'll see this too!

i was just wondering about the icing for the bottom of the giant cupcakes yesterday - i was thinking about getting one of the tins!

[toomanyshoes]

I've made them before, both ways (bake separate layers and bake in one pan) I just wanted nice clean layers but because of the shape it wasn't going to be possible. It will still be rainbowish though

I searched online about cooking from frozen and it was split 50/50 so figured I better not chance it, thats a lot of cake to through out if it went wrong!

[sloane]

you'll have to post pics when it's finished! sounds awesome!

and yeah, i'd be gutted if i had to throw out a whole cake!

[toomanyshoes]

Just popped the top out and its puuuurfect! Base still needs another 10 mins or so though! Fingers crossed it comes out cleanly to.

[Raupe]

Awesome!! Just remember to take pics and show us later!!

[Raupe]

Just saw your pics in the bake'n'share thread! WOW. You are seriously talented!
I want to make a giant cupcake for SIL B-day. Could you tell me how you covered the bottom (I think you used chocolate?) and what you used to decorate the top (is it icing? what kind?). I won't make it a rainbow cake, but I LOVED the way you decorated yours! Please do share. Pretty please

[toomanyshoes]

I put the base upside down on a wire cooling rack and the top right way up and just poured over melted chocolate, I was going to do ganache but I ran out of time.

Turned out ok though.

I butted and floured the mould, came out perfectly.

Put them together when they are set.

[Raupe]

So the top is melted white chocolate, not icing? I'm intrigued! So did you use icing to attach the deco or did you do that before the chocolate set (so the deco stuck to the chocolate)?

[toomanyshoes]

Just stuck them on before it set, you could wait and put them on with icing later if you wanted to.

I just dragged the back of a spoon over the choc while it was setting so it had more "texture" like icing I guess.

[Raupe]

Cool! Many thanks!!!

Can't wait to have a go at it!

You ROCK!

[Raupe]

Oops, got a bit too excited! Hehe double post

[toomanyshoes]

Have fun making it!

And happy to help