over the top neopolitan cake

Time for a birthday cake and I've always liked neopolitan ice cream so thought I'd give it a go in cake form.  So, a layer each of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla sponges, filled with buttercream and covered with pink, yellow and brown icing.  Sounds delicate and simple....

for chocolate layer
2 eggs
100g stork margarine
100g caster sugar
100g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbs cocoa powder

for strawberry layer
2 eggs
100g stork margarine
100g caster sugar
100g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp strawberry flavouring
a few drops of red food colouring

for vanilla layer
2 eggs
100g stork margarine
100g caster sugar
100g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp vanilla extract
a few drops of yellow food colouring

to make the cakes, cream together the margarine and sugar.  Beat in the eggs then add flour, baking powder, colouring and flavouring.  Pour each into a greased and lined 15cm loose bottom sandwich tin and bake for about 20 minutes until risen and nicely done.

for butter icing
200g butter
400g icing sugar

Cream together and sandwich the layers together keeping a bit back to smear over the cake to ensure the icing sticks.  I also used a bit of homemade blackcurrant jam between the layers just in case there wasn't enough sugar already.

after everyone had tucked in

For the icing I used ready made icing and added cocoa powder for the brown, strawberry flavouring and red colouring for the pink, and vanilla extract and yellow colouring for the yellow.  No holding back on sugar and artificial colourings on this cake!

I had this crazy idea that stripes would look good so wound the icing round the cake in layers, finishing with concentric circles on the top.  It wasn't until later that I realised that this cake looks like it has a nipple on top.  Maybe not the best looking cake I've every made but certainly the most amusing!