My tribute to our Tri Color! Proud to present to you the Indian Independence Day special tri color cake!
Yes, I finally made it! After lot of apprehensions, I could perfectly churn out my Indian tricolor cake and I can’t be happier about it! Its feels like real accomplishment and I am dying to share this happiness with you all.
I am not at all a pro in making multi-tier cakes; but I still convinced myself to try my hands on making our Indian tri color cake and with Independence Day being around the corner, I had not excuse to escape!
I am so happy that I didn’t let anxiety take over my courage and my determination finally paid through! These three colors of our Indian flag stir something inside me that I can’t help but feel determined, even if it’s just for baking a cake!
My tri color cake has the three primary colors of our national flag – starting with saffron which symbolizes strength & courage of the country, next comes white indicating peace & truth and finally green shows the fertility, growth & auspiciousness of the land.
These 3 simple colors epitomize the essence of our country in its entirety and hence I drew my inspiration of multi-layer cake from our very own tri color! My tri color cake turned out stunning not only in looks but also in taste.
This tri color cake is a simple vanilla sponge cake; hence you can never go wrong with it!
I am feeling very guilty while writing this post; let me tell you why. I made this Indian Independence Day special Tri Color cake on our Independence Day i.e. 15th August, but it took me 15 days to publish it here on our blog!
This is making me mad at myself! I may have thousands of excuses like lack of time due to work pressure or personal commitment, but still those are not valid reasons to convince myself. I am feeling way too bad for not posting this beautiful tri color cake exactly on Independence Day!
This slip made me realize that I need to be much more organized and get focused on delivering right things on right time. Anyways, the idea of this tri color cake occurred to me few days before 15th of August and I got all excited.
I adapted a simple vanilla cake recipe and divided the batter into three equal portions for three different colors of our National flag. The colors looked just awesome! You can surely use this recipe to make your own color combination and the cake will always turn out to be rocking!
- All-purpose flour – 345 gms (3 cups), sifted
- Baking powder – 1 tbsp
- Salt – ½ tsp
- Unsalted butter – 226 gms (1 cup), at room temperature
- Granulated white sugar – 320 gms (1 & ⅔ cup)
- Large eggs – 4, at room temperature
- Pure vanilla extract – 2 tsp
- Milk – 240 ml (1 cup), at room temperature
- Orange/saffron liquid food color – 1 tsp
- Dark green liquid food color – 1 tsp
- Whipping cream to cover
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (350 degrees F) with rack in center of oven.
- Butter or spray with a non-stick vegetable spray, three 9 inch x 2 inch (23 x 5 cm) cake pans. Then line the bottoms of the pans with parchment or wax paper and then spray the paper.
- In a bowl, sift or whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- With a hand mixer, beat the butter until soft and creamy for about 1-2 minutes. Gradually add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy for about 3-5 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Add the vanilla extract and beat until combined.
- With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour mixture (in three additions) and milk (in two additions), beginning and ending with the flour.
- Evenly divide the batter between the three prepared pans. Add the orange/saffron liquid color to one pan and whisk to blend the color all over homogeneously. The liquid color tends to stick to one place; you have to give little effort to mix it thoroughly.
- Add dark green liquid color to another pan and mix similarly. Leave the third pan as it is. Smooth the tops of the batters with the back of a spoon or an offset spatula.
- Since I have a small oven, I had baked each cake separately. Bake each cake for 27 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean and the cake springs back when pressed lightly in center. You can bake all the cakes together if you have a big oven; the time to bake will be more or less same. Keep checking after every 10 minutes!
- Place the cakes on a wire rack to cool, in their pans, for about 10 minutes.
- Then invert the cakes onto a plate. Remove the parchment or wax paper and re-invert cakes so that tops are right side up. Cool completely before frosting.
- Meanwhile prepare the frosting [I used simple whipped cream to cover the cakes and also applied the same between the layers.]. Whip the double cream until soft peaks form and the volume increased four times. Keep it in the fridge to chill so that it’s easy to spread over the cake.
- Once the cakes are completely cooled, prepare for frosting. The top of each cake should be perfectly plain. If the top has become dome shapes (which is quite normal), cut it off and make a perfect plain for the cake to hold the frosting.
- If you have a turn-table, place the green cake first on the turn-table. Apply a thick layer of whipped cream all over. Now place the un-colored i.e. white cake over the green. Re-apply the layer of cream. Finally place the saffron cake. Now apply the cream over the top and also on the sides and using a spatula cover the cake all over. Smooth the edges and you are done!
- Sprinkle some colored sugar balls or chocolate vermicelli or some other decorative sprinklers of your choice! Enjoy!
Like u said u have a small oven and u baked the cake one by one how do we prepare tha batter in small quantity and if suppose u have prepared the batter together can we wait till each cake is done won’t the batter sit down ?
Hi,
I had prepared the batter together and then divided it into 3 portions. I agree that the batter may sit down a bit if you do not start the baking immediately, but since the individual cake is quite small, each cake didn’t take too long to bake and they had risen nicely. Do try it and I am sure yours will also turn out fabulous!
I tried the above cake and it turned out awesome thanks for sharing your recipe.
Thanks a lot for letting me know! That’s very sweet of you and I’m so happy you liked it! Happy independence day in advance! 🙂
Hey Priyanka,
Just want to tell you my family and friends not only liked the presentation even the taste of cake a big thanks to you.
Hey Thelma! That’s really great! I am so happy to hear that! 🙂