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Typically, this refers to the colors of the frosting on the outside of a cake, however the individual cake layers can also be colored to create a gradient. I recommend starting with the darkest color of your gradient to ensure that you get the cleanest, most vibrant look on your finished cake. First, transfer about a quarter of your icing into a clean bowl and add a generous amount of the food coloring of your choice. Here, I used yellow. Make this icing very vivid and leave the rest of the icing uncolored.

Pipe or spread a thick stripe all around the base of your cake. Next, add in some of the white icing to your base color to lighten it up. Mix it well, then pipe a second stripe around the base of your cake, just above the darker color. How to Make This Recipe. Ice a thin even layer of the uncoloured icing all over and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.

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Easy to make and delicious! Chocolate Birthday Celebration Cake Christmas. Hidden inside are colourful sweets and chocolates, creating a wonderful surprise once cut into. Now we need to colour the sponge. We are going to start very cautiously, and use the end of teaspoon to dig out a small amount of food colouring to mix to the very first of our batches of cake mix.

Just one little amount will do. Mix it in evenly and set this bowl aside. Moving on to the next batch of cake mix, this time add two amounts of cake mix and mix in thoroughly. Then add three amounts to the third and four to the fourth. By this time you should have four mixes ranging from palest pink to deep pink. Take a good look at your batches. Do you have a good progression of colour? The colour of the sponges will deepen as they bake.

With this in mind, add some extra colouring if needed. Place a greaseproof circle in each tin and scrape your cake mix into each tin. Place the tins in the centre of a pre-heated oven at degrees for 30 minutes. You will know when the cakes are fully cooked because they will spring back into shape when prodded in the centre.

If they don't appear to be done, don't worry about the cakes flopping, they won't, just close the oven door and check back in five minutes to see how they are getting on. Turn your cakes out onto a wire rack, peel of the greaseproof circles, and allow them to cool fully before icing.