Rainbow Butter Cake

Lynn of Another Cup of Sugar is organising a Cake and Bake contest. Though I am not a good cook, and my end products are not as beautiful as others, I am still going to submit an entry. Just for the fun of it and to support Lynn's effort. So people, let's join in the fun. There's still time! The closing date for submitting your entry is on the 12th November, 2008. You can read more about it here . All the best to you and to me as well. May the best man/woman wins..... And Lynn, THANK YOU!!

RAINBOW BUTTER CAKE

Adapted from : Bro Rozzan's Blogspot

Ingredients :

250g butter
200g sugar
5 eggs
210g flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
* 1/2 teaspoon rose essence
* food coloring : pink, yellow, green, blue
(those marked with * are the ones I added)

Method :

1. Sift flour and baing powder, trice. Set aside.
2. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy. I did it manually.
3. Add in eggs, one at a time and mix evenly.
4. Add vanilla essence and rose essence and cream the batter till smooth and light.
5. Fold in the flour till well blended.
6. Scoop a small portion of the batter into 4 separate bowls.
7. Add in a bit of food coloring into each bowls. Fold in to mix it evenly.
8. Scoop 2 tablespoons of yellow color onto tu center of the baking tin.
9. Top it with 2 tablespoons of pink color onto the center of the yellow batter.
10. Do the same with the green and blue color and repeat the process till all the batter are used. 11. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for 45 to 50 minutes.