Rainbow Cake

My grandmothers were my inspiration for cooking. They still are. My mom too, to be fair. All equally. Let's get that straight right away. The recipe for Rainbow Cake comes from my maternal grandmother. Typed with little annotations between lines and in margins. A true heirloom. It is essentially a butter cake batter with a twist. The batter is divided and dyed with food coloring. No two come out the same. Ever. They all come out looking pretty groovy. The picture here is a file photo from my archives. Today's version, still in the oven, has four colors. The pink, green and yellow seen here, plus blue. Blue food intrigues me. As kids we would eat one color, then the next and so on. Technically, we played with our food.

Bon appétit!