Planetperki

I’ve been on a mad spree of making home made cakes over the past month or so and me and the missus decided to make an ode to design in sponge cake format. A CMYK sponge cake :)

It wasn’t exactly very difficult to make, but it was definitely a lot harder than a straight up sponge cake, the pictures below kind of give that away, but it was properly good fun.

What we did was basically split a normal sponge cake mixture into 4 separate bowls and added Blue, Pink, Yellow and Black food colouring to each one, gave each a quick mix and then put each bowls worth of mixture into a cake tin and baked in the oven, as usual. We then put each layer on cake on top of each other, with a properly big helping of raspberry jam to hold them together and finished it off with a thick dusting of icing sugar…

Here are the results of our CMYK sponge cake experiment.

Lovely :)

It was a shame that the pink dye didn’t actually colour the sponge, and that the blue wasn’t exactly vivid, but as a bit of fun, i think it worked pretty well. Next time i try something like this i will have to remember to use some more dye with the blue and pink.

Oh and by the way, the amount of E numbers in that cake was unbelievable, it wasn’t for anyone a little bit health conscious… but it tasted pretty good.

What kind of cake should i try next? i was tempted by making an ‘Incredible Hulk‘ cake ;)