Rainbow cake with vanilla buttercream icing.

• 3 cup self-raising flour
• 1 1/2 cup white sugar
• 6 medium eggs
• 2 tbsp of water
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 cup margarine
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp each of different colours (i use powdered colours)
• 1/4 cup margarine
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 3/4 tsp vanilla
• 2 cup icing sugar
• 1 tbsp milk

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

flour, white sugar, eggs, water, vanilla, margarine, salt, different colours, margarine, shortening, vanilla, icing sugar, milk

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/363736-rainbow-cake-with-vanilla-buttercream-icing (may not work)