Delicious!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Additional Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 14 |
| Yield: | 1 butterfly cake |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter, at room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup milk
- assorted food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8 1/2×11-inch butterfly-shaped cake pan.
- Mix flour and baking powder together in a small bowl.
- Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs and vanilla extract and mix until well blended. Add flour mixture in 2 batches, alternating with milk, beating batter briefly after each addition.
- Divide batter equally into 4 or 5 small cups and add several drops of food coloring to each cup, mixing well to color batter evenly. Layer small amounts of colored batter randomly in the prepared cake pan, using a toothpick to swirl colors gently. Continue until all batter has been added to the pan and colors have been swirled.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 45 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool completely.
- Tips on blending colors: in one cup, add yellow, blend, and add 1/2 of the batter to pan. Then add some green and blend to get neon green, and add remaining batter to the pan. In another cup, add red and add 1/2 of the batter to pan. In that same cup, add some blue to make purple and add remaining batter to the pan. If you continue this process, you will get around 10 different colors, and use fewer cups. Have fun with the colors and involve the kids–they love this recipe!
- I have also done this for my angel food cakes, and it is beautiful! I use a melted chocolate drizzled on top, with strawberries and whipped cream. It makes a wonderful light, spring/summer dessert with pizzazz.
- You can also blend chocolate cake into this one, for a chocolate/white marbled cake design with lots of color and flavor!
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 179 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 25 g |
| Cholesterol | 45 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 122 mg |
| Sugars | 15 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |