9e's Rainbow Birthday Cake

Many moving parts in this one, but nothing difficult!

Finally I'm going to start putting links to where I got the recipe from, in case my version is too succinct or hard to understand.

Happy Birthday!

In all its glory!

Single Sponge cake:

Ingredients:

1/2 tin (200 grams) condensed milk

140 gms self raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

60 ml melted butter or margarine

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method

1. Sieve the flour, baking powder and soda bi-carbb together.
2. Mix the flour mixture, condensed milk, melted butter, essence and 75 ml. (2 1/2 fl. Oz. ) water and beat well.
3. Pour the mixture into a greased and dusted 150 mm. (6") diameter tin.
4. Bake in a hot oven at 200 degree c (400 degree f) for 10 minutes. Then reduce the tempreture to 150 degree c (300 degree f) and bake for a further 10 minutes.
5. The cake is ready when it leaves the sides of the tin and is springy to touch. When ready, take out from the oven and leave for 1 minute. Invert the tin over a rack and tap sharply to remove.
6. Cool the cake.

Chocolate frosting

Ingredients:

1 cup softened butter
1/2 cup cocoa powder, sifted

5 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

3-4 tablespoons milk

Method:

1. Whip butter and cocoa together until smooth in large bowl.
2. Stir in vanilla and powdered sugar.
3. Slowly stream in milk until frosting reaches desired consistency.
4. Scrape sides and whip again until light, fluffy and smooth, 1-2 minutes.
5. Frosts 1-9 or 8 inch round layered cake or 24 cupcakes.

Putting it all together:

1. Make 5 of the sponge cakes each using a food dye (10-20 drops depending on color and shade). Wait until cooled
2. Whip a carton of cream with a little vanilla essence
3. Place the first sponge on a serving plate. Cover with a layer of raspberry jam and then a layer of cream.
4. Repeat for the remaining sponges (except the last one! Don't put anything on top of it)
5. Make a double mixture of the chocolate frosting
6. Cover the entire cake in chocolate frosting
7. Cover with smarties and or m'n'ms!

References:

From: http://www.laurenslatest.com/the-best-and-easiest-chocolate-frosting-birthday-cake/

From: http://www.tarladalal.com/Eggless-Sponge-Cake-108r