Pastel Rainbow Chocolate Raspberry Cream Cheese Cake
Prep Time
10 mins
Makes 1- 6 inch cake or 1 slightly shorter 8 inch cake
Course:
Cake, Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Keyword:
cream cheese frosting, pastel rainbow cake, rainbow cake
Servings: 10
Ingredients
CHOCOLATE CAKE
- 1/2 batch Easy Chocolate Cake Recipe - check notes
RASPBERRY CAKE FILLING
- 1 batch Raspberry Cake Filling Recipe - check notes
VANILLA CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
- 2 pkg full fat cream cheese at room temperature (1 package is 226 grams)
- 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature (1 stick is 113 grams)
- 7-8 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 4 tbsp whipping cream o heavy cream
- pinch of salt
Instructions
VANILLA CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
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With a paddle attachment in a bowl of your mix cream unsalted butter (2 sticks and 1/2 stick) for 2 minutes. Then gradually beat in room temperature cream cheese (2 pkg, 2 packages are 452 grams). Beat until smooth, about 2 minutes.
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Gradually beat in powdered sugar (7-8 cups) alternating with heavy cream (4 tbsp). About 5 minutes. Lastly beat in Vanilla Extract (2 tsp).
TIP : Sift powdered sugar if it has lumps.
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Cream cheese frosting doesn't firm up like all butter buttercream. It if it is too soft chill the frosting covered for 20 minutes.
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Color frosting with concentrated gel colors. Avoid using liquid colors.
Recipe Notes
- Easy Chocolate Cake Recipe :
- You only need 2 to baked chocolate cakes (trimmed and torted - total of 4 cake layers) to make this Rainbow Pastel Cake, you can half chocolate cake recipe or make 2 - 8/9 inch cakes, or freeze cakes you won't use for later.
- Raspberry Cake Filling
CAN I USE STORE BOUGHT RASPBERRY JAM ?
Absolutely.