Friendship Cake

Friendship Cake

Cake Ingrediants: You need two sets of these ingrediants.

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  3 cups flour


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  4 teaspoons baking powder


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  1/4 teaspoon salt


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  1 Cup butter


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  1 Cup sugar


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  2 teaspoons vanilla


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  1 1/3 Cups light cream


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  8 egg whites


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  food coloring

Frosting Ingrediants:

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  4 packages of cream cheese


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  1 Cup butter


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  5 - 6 Cups powdered sugar


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  1 Tablespoon Vanilla

To make the Cake:

1.) Mix together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside

2.) Beat butter for 30 seconds with electric mixer, Add 1 cup sugar and vanilla, beat until fluffy. Add the flour mixture and light cream to mixture, beating on low speed after each ingrediant is added to mixture.

3.) In a large bowl, beat egg whites on medium until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1 Cup sugar until peaks are stiff. Gently fold egg whites (about 1/4 at a time) into creamed mixture.

4.) Divide mixture into 3 greased 9 inch round pans. Add red, orange and yellow food coloring to the mixtures. Stir color in evenly. Back 25 minutes. Cool layers in pans for about 10 minutes than remove and allow to cool on wire rack.

Repeat steps 1 - 4 to make 3 addional layers for Friendship Cake. Use green blue and purple food coloring in step 4.

To make the frosting:

1.) Mix together butter and cream cheese unti well combined

2.) Add vanilla

3.) Gradually add in powdered sugar. Taste frosting after 5th cup and add 6th cup to your liking.

To Assemble the Cake:

1.) Even out the cakes using a large bread knife. Make sure they're the same depth throughout the whole layer so that the color looks even when cake is assebled.

2.) Place purple layer on plate. Add enough frosting to cover the layer with some spill over hte edges. Smooth out the frosting

3.) Add the blue layer on top of the frosted purple one, repeat frosting process

4.) Put the cake in refrigerator for 2+ hours or in freezer for 1 hour

5. & 6.) Repeat with green and yellow layers

7.) Put the cake in refrigerator for 2+ hours or freezer for 1 hour.

8. & 9.) Repeat with orange and then red layers.

Smooth frosting over whole cake and then there you go... Friendship (or rainbow) Cake!

Photo borrowed from Jennifer as I have not remembered to photograph my cake!

Refrigerating the cake between layers is imperative! If you skip this step the cake will get all wobbly and squished looking by the yellow layer - not pretty! Believe me, I know!

To speed up the process you can always use two boxes of cake mix, but I prefer the homemade cake taste!