Rainbow Layer Cake with Egg Nog Frosting
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Prairie Farms Unsalted Butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 3 cups cake flour
- 5 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cups Prairie Farms Flavored Milks Egg nog, Orange Créme, Strawberry Créme, and Chocolate Marshmallow
- Gel food coloring
- 3 Tbsp cocoa
- Frosting
- 1 cup Prairie Farms Unsalted Butter, softened
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tsp Prairie Farms egg nog
- Garnish
- Rainbow Sprinkles
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large mixing bowl beat butter and sugar on medium speed for about 5 minutes, until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, and blend well.
- Reduce to low speed, and add flour slowly. Mix in baking powder and salt.
- Using 4 medium sized mixing bowls, and one flavored milk to each bowl.
- Pour cake batter equally into each of the 4 bowls. Stir to combine with milk.
- Add 1-2 drops of food coloring to each bowl. Yellow for egg nog, red for strawberry créme, and orange for orange créme. Add cocoa to chocolate marshmallow batter.
- Grease four 6” x 6” cake pans with butter and lightly flour.
- Pour each bowl of batter into its own baking pan.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of cake comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool in pans for 10 minutes.
- Carefully remove cakes from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.
- For Frosting: In a mixing bowl, beat butter on high speed until fluffy. Reduce to medium and slowly add powdered sugar and egg nog until combined.
- Use a round cookie cutter that fits within the mouth of a mason jar. about 3”. Cut circles out of each cake flavor. Stack each cake circle layered with icing.
- Drop the stacks of cake into each mason jar.
- Using an icing/piping bag with a decorator tip of your choice, swirl frosting on top. Garnish with rainbow sprinkles and serve immediately.