Rainbow Ganache Cake is a fun and festive, but super simple, cake recipe. White chocolate ganache is delicious and so easy to dye with vibrant colors! This rainbow cake is the best dessert to celebrate a birthday with or bring to any party!
My Favorite Rainbow Cake Recipe
Welcome to post 2 in Valentine’s week here and at Confessions of a Cookbook Queen!
I guess this cake isn’t really Valentinesey…
But it totally could be…I mean, just use red and pink ganache…
The idea for this cake came from all those cute Melted Crayon Art projects all over Pinterest. Have you seen those? SO fun!
And even though rainbows aren’t your typical Valentine’s symbol I’m thinking that no one would be UPSET if a rainbow happened on Valentine’s Day.
Rainbows are basically love in the sky, so I think this totally makes sense.
A Homemade Rainbow Ganache Cake
This cake is pretty darn easy…I mean as far as cakes go.
I am by no means an expert cake decorator…as a matter of fact I have grown to moderately despise cake decorating.
After one too many disasters, I decided my patience level in not suited for cake artistry. I am more of a slap it together kind of girl.
So this cake is perfect for me…simple frosting, drippy ganache, and swirled colors. Basically you can’t mess it up…
Just bake your cake.
I made chocolate…but I am sure there are you girls out there who would take this whole cake to the next level with a swirled cake inside, or a rainbow layer cake. Go for it.
I “crumb coated” the cake…which is a thin layer of frosting that you smooth on first and let set. It just prevents you from getting cake crumbs in your final product. It seals in all the crumbs.
Then I went over the crumb coated layer with a a smooth layer.
I used my recipe for buttercream.
How to Make White Chocolate Ganache:
After you’ve frosted the cake, go ahead and make your white chocolate ganache.
Just chop up some white chocolate fairly finely…
Now place your chopped white chocolate in a bowl and pour some nearly boiling heavy cream on top.
Stir the cream and white chocolate together until it melts. If you need to, you can microwave it slightly so all the white chocolate melts.
Next add some light corn syrup to the ganache. This helps give it a little shine.
Then separate your ganache into bowls in equal proportions…the amount depends on how many colors you are using.
I used Candy Coloring to tint the ganache…with the white chocolate in there, I was worried that regular food coloring wouldn’t work.
I just added a little bit until I got the colors that I wanted.
Then start with one color at a time. Place a nice spoonful in the center of the cake and using an off-set spatula, or large spoon push the ganache to the edge, letting it drip down the sides itself.
Continue around the cake cake alternating colors…
PrintWhite Chocolate Ganache
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Total Time: 30 min
- Yield: 1 batch 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Description
Rainbow Ganache Cake is a fun and festive, but super simple, cake recipe. White chocolate ganache is delicious and so easy to dye with vibrant colors! This rainbow cake is the best dessert to celebrate a birthday with or bring to any party!
Ingredients
- 4 oz white chocolate, chopped finely
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 3 Tbsp light corn syrup
- candy coloring
Instructions
- Chop your white chocolate and place it in a medium sized bowl.
- Heat heavy cream in microwave about 1 minute until it’s very hot.
- Pour the heavy cream over the white chocolate and let it sit until the chocolate melts, stirring often.
- If the white chocolate doesn’t fully melt microwave for an additional 20 seconds until melted.
- Add in corn syrup and stir until incorporated.
- Place mixture in the refrigerator for approximately 10 minutes until cooled.
- When chilled, separate into bowls and add color to each.
- Pour over top of the cake, pushing to edge allowing ganache to drip down over the side of the cake.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 piece of cake
- Calories: 100
- Sugar: 11.9 g
- Sodium: 15.9 mg
- Fat: 5.8 g
- Carbohydrates: 11.9 g
- Protein: 0.8 g
- Cholesterol: 9.1 mg
This is awesome! Love the inspiration from the melted crayons
Just a beautiful and happy cake.
Super-fun cake! I love rainbows 🙂
You must have been so happy when it turned out so beautifully! Love it!
Okay, this is totally doable and I didn’t think it would be. At all. And so pretty too!
Oh wow, this cake is beautiful!
Wow, this is such a fun cake!! Love the idea!
Such a great idea, Shelly! I love how they swirl together.
What a FUN idea! My kids would love pouring the color over the cake. 🙂
Beautiful! By the way, I would totally make a chocolate cake, too. Not only to keep it simple, but because it’s the flavor I LOVE. I was thinking, you could probably use this same concept of colors with King Cake…but as a layered cake like this and colored sugars instead of icing. Hmmm…. might be a little project for me next week. 🙂
Ooh that’s a great idea!!