45 Batik Arora Cake, the multi-coloured cake

Now, this is definitely a fun cake to bake. Besides being able to choose the endless colours & flavours that you like, you can also choose to bake this cake in a bundt pan, the usual round or square pan, rectangular pan & I've seen too bloggers using smaller pans to create a mini batik arora cake.

Saturdays are always a great day for me as I can bake to my heart's content. I can bake more than the usual share as the other kids usually bunk at my place from late morning to quite late in the evening for the study & lepak session. Sometimes, it spilled over to supper at our usual hangout. I just love Saturdays :)
Coming back to this Batik Arora cake, I first spotted it at Ady's  and since then soooo many bloggers had tried out the recipe with so many shapes & colours. The more I see this cake around, the more I was itching to go & bake it..so last Saturday, baked it, I did!

The minute I took out the batik arora cake from the oven to cool it on the wire rack, the kids were all ansy for me to cut it as they had seen the bowls in the sink with the scrapes of  batter in them. I couldn't possibly cut the cake there & then just after removing from the oven right? that's calling for a disaster, so I just let the pretty cake sit nicely amidst calls from the kids to slice it up..heheh..I let them wait for quite a bit and when I slice the cake after it had really cool. You don;t wanna know how fast the slices were gone between the 5 kids fingers + 1 err..not so kid fingers la..Bottomline, I just love looking at the colourful pretty cake and I wouldn't mind baking another one for them in the near future.

Ingredients

250 gm all purpose flour*
2 tspn baking powder* -sifted together
250 gm good quality butter
100 gm castor sugar
1 tspn ovallete (addition)
1/2 cup condensed milk
6 eggs
5 food colourings & flavour of choice

Method

In a stand mixer, beat butter & sugar till white & fluffy
Add condensed milk & continue beating till incorporated
Add in eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition
Lower speed of your mixer, add sifted flour & baking powder (I did in 3 additions)
Add ovallate & beat well
Divide batter into 5 portions with a different colour & essence to each colour

(blueberry essence to blue food colouring)
(mango essence to yellow food colouring)
(strawberry paste to red food colouring)
(pandan paste to green colouring)
(plain for the purple food colouring)..it's up to you really

Grease bundt pan & sprinkle with flour. Tap access flour.
Pre heat oven
Add a scoopful of each colur of the batter into your bundt pan, alternating the colours till all the batter are used up. Bake at 160-180C (depending on your oven for 45mins - 1 hour)
I baked mine using Nordic dark bundt pan at 155C for abt 55 mins
Cool on wire rack

Adapted from : denuanza
Thanks for sharing