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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
Hanielas.com: Hani Bacova
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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Cream cheese frosting doesn't firm up like all butter buttercream. It if it is too soft chill the frosting covered for 20 minutes.

  4. 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.