Pride Cakes
When I googled pride cakes, I saw a lot of different cakes come up. I thought about doing a six layer cake. Or doing 3 layer cake with alternating coloured frosting. However, as I don’t have the correct cake pans any more, I decided to do something a little more simple, but very time consuming.
I tried to turn this >>> into cake. Let’s see how things turned out.
A lot of people seem to think all may bakes come out perfect, and I’m going to be honest with you. A lot of the stuff I post is after three to four attempts at a recipe. This recipe is no different. I had grand plans to get a perfect cupcake that all the colours of the pride flag, however it didn’t work out that way.
One of the things that didn’t work out was the amount of cakes that came out. I was hoping for 24 but in the end we got 18, six short, but oh well. Similar thing happened with the layering of the cupcakes, but I feel the end result was still great.
Pride Cupcakes
250g Sugar
250g Butter
250g Self raising flour
4 Large Eggs
1 TBS Vanilla Extract
Half TBS Bicarbonate of soda
3 TBS milk
Method
Better the butter for a about a minute to get it nice a fluffy. Then beat in the sugar. For about 30 seconds, scrap down the bowl and beat again to make sure the sugar is well incorporated.
Next beat in the eggs one at a time, remembering to scrape down the bowl each time to make sure you get everything. You want to beat each egg for a couple seconds.
Sieve the flour and bicarbonate of soda, in a bowl, then slowly add it to the rest of the mixture. Making sure you scrape down the mixture. Always remember to do this, as you don’t want bits of unmixed flour in your mixture.
Then mix in your vanilla extract, for a couple seconds. Finally add a bit of milk in bit by bit, till you a nice smooth mixture. So its looks more liquid then peaky. You can add more milk if you want to. But just make sure it doesn’t become a completely liquid.
Here comes the annoying bit. You have to do a little maths here, before you mix your cake weigh you bowl, now you have to weigh your bowl a again, but taking away the weight of the bowl. Then what ever you have left divide by 6 to get how much batter you should have for each colour of the flag. Remember you can be off by one or two grams, because of batter transfer.
To colour you cakes and frosting I recommend Wilton Colouring. I have been using these for almost ten years, and a little goes along way. So you want to colour each mixture in each of the colours. Add much or as little you want to, the mix. Using more will make the colour more vibrant.
Once all mix is coloured add each to a piping bag, and then layering your cases with Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and finally Red. Now this where you need to use your judgement about how much you need to use. Try to layer the batter evenly, dropping the cake tray on the counter to help flatten out the batter. This will take a long time, so have patience.
Finally time for the cakes to cook, put in the over for minutes for at 170 degrees for twenty minutes.
Frosting
250g Butter
500g Icing Sugar
1 TBS Vanilla extract
Some milk
Making frosting is very easy, remember the golden rule, always double the amount of sugar the weight of the butter.
Beat your butter for five minutes, get it nice a smooth. Set a timer, and let your mix do the work. If you are using a hand mixer just keep on mixing. You really need to give it the five minutes
Then you want to beat in your icing sugar in thirds. Makes sure you have sieved you icing sugar, so you don’t get such a raw taste. Make sure you mix on slow first so you don’t get icing sugar go everywhere. Then turn up the speed and beat it for about 2-3 minutes to get all the sugar incorporated. After a minute scrap down the bowl then beat further. Then repeat the steps for last two thirds of the sugar.
My plan for my icing was to colour half it pink, then frost it in half pink half white. However, my duo piping bag decided it wasn’t going to work, so I had to just do the best I could.
Results
As you can see the cake came out great inside, I’m not going to lie I was a little disappointed by the frosting. But it did come out fine, I just wish the white was a little more prominent. However they tasted great.
You can use this method and colour the cake any flag colour you want. If I had time I would make all the flags as cupcakes. I’ll see you next time.
Xo FabEs
