rainbow butter cake

Do not let the complicated design deter you from giving this recipe a try.

This is so easy a recipe that a 12-year old child can easily bake the rainbow butter cake.

Only one thing is needed for this cake-making process - patience. Patience is required because you have to painstaking add a spoonful of the coloured batter at a time. It is worth the trouble, trust me! The rainbow butter cake is so moist and colourful that you will have to resist reaching for a second slice.

INGREDIENTS

180g self-raising flour
250g butter (softened)
110g castor sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
several food colouring of your choice

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius.

2. Grease and line the bottom of an 8" round cake pan with baking paper. Grease and flour the sides of the cake pan.

3. Sift the self-raising flour in a bowl. Set aside.

4. Cream the butter and sugar using an electric mixer until light and fluffy.

5. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well with each addition.

6. Add the vanilla essence and mix well.

7. Fold in the flour using a wooden spatula and mix until blended.

8. Separate the batter into separate portions of equal proportion. The number of portions that you separate the batter into depends on the number of food colouring that you have. I usually use orange food colouring, coffee emulco (mixed with a tbsp of Milo), apple green colouring and strawberry essence.

9. Add a few drops of food colouring into the batter and mix well. Add more colouring if required to achieve your desired colour of the batter.

10. Starting with the first coloured batter, add a spoonful of the batter to the centre of the prepared pan. Add a second spoonful of batter (of different colour) on top of the existing batter that is already in the prepared pan. The weight of the second spoonful of batter will push the first spoonful of batter outwards. Continue with the rest of the coloured batter and repeat the entire process until all the batter has been used up.

11. Bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.