Neapolitan Style Cake

I saw a recipe in a book that looked like a Neapolitan ice cream, of course I fell in love with it immediately as it was something different and had to make it!!! I change the ingredients to what I like to use, because it was so much easier and I had the stuff in the house. I just use my normal victoria sponge recipe and multiplied it by three because I did one vanilla layer, one chocolate, and one raspberry. I made three layers out of them in one tin, so vanilla in one cake tin, chocolate etc, from this I cut the layers in half so I had six layers, two of each. I then put butter cream between each layer and sandwiched them together, so it looked like a Neapolitan ice cream I did decorate because I was bored and people automatically thought I had made it for someone, I'll point out again I did not make it for anyone I made it for my own entertain because I had nothing better to do!!!! I say it was pretty easy to do and I'd definitely do it again!!!

I couldn't decide how I wanted to deocrate and I've always wanted to do a present cake so I tried and did a present cake because I have too much time on my hands obviously. I wasn't too pleased with the bow because after I'd done it and left it over night on the cake it cracked and fell apart!! But beforehand it looked pretty good. I thought it needed something else so mum said to pipe butter cream around the edge in rosettes:

I thought it needed something else just to brighten it up because it didn't really have a lot of colour to it (in my opinion!!), so I made some butterflies, made them look like they were flying and stuck them to the butter cream:

I was pretty impressed with how it turned out just for a 'I think I'm going to make a cake'.



I was very impressed at how it looked inside as well!! You definitely wouldn't want a very big slice because it was very tall and had a lot of layers!!!

Katie