Rainbow cake with vanilla buttercream icing. - flour

Method

• Pre-heat oven at 160C.
• It's a slow-bake cake.
• Grease & flour a 7 inch diameter round baking dish.
• Sieve flour & salt.
• Keep aside.
• In a bowl, add margarine + sugar & mix well with a mixer at high speed till fluffy and creamy.
• Add the eggs + vanilla & mix well till well combined & mixture looks curdy.
• Add the flour mixture & mix well till all combined.
• If mixture is too heavy, add the water & mix well on high speed.
• Take 7 bowls.
• Scoop using a serving spoon, the cake mixture & distribute evenly in the bowls.
• Repeat till all the mixture is used up.
• Now add the food colouring.
• Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple.
• Different colour for each bowl.
• ( unfortunately, i ran out of blue colour, so i used 6)
• Mix well.
• DONT use the same spoon for all the bowls...
• Pour 1 bowl at a time, into the baking dish, spreading CAREFULLY to the edge of the dish.
• Make sure not to mix-up the colours.
• Place in the oven.
• Bake for about 1& a half hours or until a wooden pick inserted in the middle, comes out clean.
• Cool completely on wire rack.
• Make sure the cake is COMPLETELY COOL before spreading the icing.
• For the Icing:
• In a large bowl, cream margarine & shortening till light & fluffy.
• Add vanilla, icing sugar & milk.
• Mix well.
• (U can add a tablespoon more of milk to make it the consistency u require.)