There Arlecchino cake it's a colored cake which takes its name from the famous Bergamo mask. With its garish colors, it is perfect as Carnival cake, but will surely make children happy on other occasions, like one birthday party.

If you love pastry and color, you must absolutely try it. Preparing it is very simple! To achieve the harlequin effect, it is necessary to use gods food coloring: for this you can also customize recipes of other cakes, giving your final touch with the colors of the rainbow.

For our Harlequin Cake, we have chosen the shape of a classic donut. Blue, yellow, red, green, purple: the colors you choose them!

Arlecchino cake: the recipe

Ingredients

300 g flour
150 g sugar
1 sachet of baking powder
3 eggs
160 g butter
120 ml milk
1 vanilla pod
peel of a lemon
Food dyes

Method

Let the butter reach room temperature and put it in a bowl: start to work it with the whisk until it becomes frothy. Add the eggs, one after the other, continuing to mix with a wooden spoon, until they are all perfectly incorporated.

Add the vanilla pods, the zest of a lemon and then the previously sifted flour with baking powder. Pour the milk at this point, continuing to mix, avoiding the formation of lumps.

Now divide the mixture into several different bowls, depending on the colors you have chosen. In each bowl, add a different color and mix until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.

Grease and sprinkle a donut pan with the flour. Sprinkle the pan forming layers with different doughs, alternating them in the order of colors you prefer.
If you want to prepare an Arlecchino cake in a normal and not a donut-shaped cake tin, overlap the spoonfuls of dough starting from the center of the pan. The dough will slowly widen, filling the whole cake pan.

Bake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes: the cake will grow in height, giving life to the variegated effect. Before churning out the cake, do the test with the toothpick: put it in the dough and, if it comes out dry, it means that the cake is ready!

Decorate the cake as you wish, with icing sugar, frosting or sprinkling with colored codette.

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