Last year, I made a rainbow-layer cake for the World Championships in Glasgow, topped with a Danish flag. While it wasn’t my most impressive creation, I had a blast blending my passions for baking and cycling. Inspired by that experience, I decided to tackle another Cycling World Championships-themed cake, this time aiming to create one shaped like the iconic rainbow jersey. My goal wasn’t to create a detailed version, but rather to make a cake that would hopefully be recognizable as a rainbow jersey! 😅
Check out my cake from last year ↓
Not my best work compared to some of my favourite cakes↓(made with help from mom❤️)
This time, I started out by making a sketch of how I wanted the cake to look, knowing full well that it might not match the final result but just to have a visual guide. Taste wise, already knew I wanted to use my favorite vanilla cake base and a delicious chocolate mousse, which is also basically the base for all the other cakes I’ve made! 😅 Check out the receipe further down ↓
The baking itself started on friday afternoon making the vanilla cake base, i followed the recipe and mixed the ingredients together accordingly, before baking it in the owen for a little less than 10 minutes.
Then i let the cake cool down, before it was time to cut the cake into the shape of the rainbow jersey🌈
Saturday i made the chocolate mouse, which i put in the fridge for a bit before putting it into a piping bag. Then i put the piping back in the freezer for a bit before piping it onto the cake base before putting the other layer on top.
Then it was time for the first layer of buttercream, before evening it out and covering it fully.
Afterwards it was time to watch the finish of the womens race, and lets just said that the Dutch has some weird tactics, and that Lotte Kopecky is a wonderull world champion 🥰
Sunday it was time to add the stripes to the cake, i had already made the buttercream and mixed in the colors on saturday, so it was ready to go.🎨🖌️
The painting took quite some time, and additionally I also made some chocolate letters to decorate the cake 🎂
And then with around 100 km of the men’s race left the cake was done ✅
And here is the result ⬇️
I'm actually quite pleased with how the cake turned out. It's not perfect, but then again, nothing really is 🌈🫶
The receipe
If you want to make the cake yourself with or without the decoration, you can check out the receipe here.
Vanilla cake base
Ingredients
160 g of butter
270 g sugar
16 g baking powder
10 g Vanilla sugar ( I like vanilla, so i I always use like 15 g)
8 eggs
How to:
Melt the butter.
Whip the eggs and sugar together until light and airy.
Sift the flour, baking powder and vanilla sugar together into the egg mix.
Put the slightly cooled melted butter into the mix.
Spread about 500 g of the batter thinly onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Repeat this step to create two baking sheets of cake batter.
Bake the cake layers at 200 degrees for about 10 minutes til light brown.
Immediately remove them from the baking sheet once they are out the oven to allow them to cool faster.
Cut out the cake into your preffered shape.
Chocolate mouse
For the chocolate mousse i use the receipe from here for the milk chocolate mousse (mælechokolademousse)
This mouse is for a cake with a diameter of 18 cm
Ingredients:
130 g chocolate
200 ml cream
How to:
Melt the chocolate over a water bath (or in the microwave if you are lazy like me)
Heat of 70 ml cream to the boilling point.
Mix the heated cream into the heatet chocolate - preferably little by little.
Whip the remaining 60 ml of cream until it forms soft peaks.
Gently fold everything together - preferably little by litte.
Pour the mousse directly into your cake mold (ideally lined with cake foil) and place it in the freezer for a minimum of 3 hours
If you're not using a cake mold like I did not do, place the mousse in a piping bag and let it chill in the fridge or freezer until it's semi-set and can hold its shape. Then, pipe it onto the cake base as shown above.
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