Tye Died Cake

This colorful cake is delicious and fun for kids to make. I make either cupcakes or a cake with this recipe and the kids go crazy for it every time. You can also change the extract in this recipe using half vanilla half almond or even lemon.

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 2 3⁄4 cups cake flour (sifted)
• 4  teaspoons baking powder
• 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 2  eggs
• 1 1⁄4 cups white sugar
• 3⁄4 cup butter
• 1  cup milk
• 2  teaspoons vanilla extract
•  food coloring (use the gel not the liquid form)

Directions

1. Measure sifted flour, baking powder, and salt; sift together three times.
2. In a mixing bowl cream butter or margarine. Gradually add sugar, and cream together until light and fluffy. Lightly beat in the eggs until combined.
3. In a bowl combine the milk and vanilla extract.
4. Add sifted ingredients alternately with milk a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Fold the creamed mixture into the batter.
5. Mix a half tsp of food coloring gel into each bowl and stir thoroughly.
6. Next, butter and flour a 15 x 10 x 1 inch cake pan.
7. Pour the first color into the pan, then the second on top, spreading it in the middle a little. Then pour the third color and fourth if you are using four colors.
8. Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes.
9. Cool cake in pan 10 minutes, then remove from pan and transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling. This cake may also be baked in two 9 inch round pans for 30 to 35 minutes, or in three 8 inch round pans for 25 to 30 minutes.