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by Chris Murphy

This impressive rainbow cake is the perfect celebration and party centrepiece. It’s deceptively simple to make too – all you need is basic cake ingredients and a rainbow of food colouring!

You will need 6 x 20cm/8in loose bottom sandwich cake tins (approximately 4cm/1½in deep), a 20cm/8in and a 30cm/12in cake board, 2 non-slip cake mats trimmed to about 18cm/7in and 25cm/10in diameter, a turntable, a cake side scraper and 6 medium-sized piping bags.

Cakes and baking

Buyer's guide

It's possible to find food colouring and natural food colouring in supermarkets. Natural colouring will have been made with products such as vegetables, fruits, plants and minerals.