Rainbow butter cake
Rainbow butter cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cups, 2 1/2 sticks, butter at room temperature
- 2 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 5 eggs
- 4 1/2 cups cake flour
- 4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Recipe method:
- Paste food colorings in 3 shades.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease a 10 inch tube pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl of an electric mixer, combine butter and sugar until smooth, about 3 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
- Combine flour and baking powder and slowly add to butter egg mixture alternately with milk.
- Add vanilla extract and beat until combined.
- Divide batter into three equal portions and color each with about 1/4 teaspoon of paste food coloring.
- Mix until color is well distributed.
- Spoon one portion of colored batter into prepared pan and smooth top.
- Repeat with remaining portions.
- Bake for 70 minutes.
- Remove from oven to wire rack and cool for 10 minutes in pan.
- Release from pan and cool completely.
- Frost with favorite icing, if desired.
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