Ingredients

  • 190g butter
  • 1 1/4 cup white sugar
  • Vanilla paste, to taste
  • Three quarter cup corn flour
  • 1 1/2 cups plain flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 6 egg whites, beaten to stiff peaks
  • Rose pink food colouring liquid
  • The pink icing
  • 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
  • 10g butter
  • 2 tablespoons boiling water

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 150C. Grease and flour an 8 inch round tin.
  2. Sift flour, cornflour, baking powder and salt three times.
  3. Cream butter and sugar for around 10 minutes, until very pale and fluffy. Add half the milk while it’s creaming to help dissolve the sugar. Add flours and fold to combine.
  4. Fold in beaten egg whites and remaining milk.
  5. Take a quarter of the mixture into another bowl and colour with 2 to3 droplets of rose pink colouring.
  6. Place spoonful’s of white cake batter over the base of your prepared cake tin. Spoon over pink batter in a circular pattern. Cover with half the remaining white batter.
  7. Fill the centre with remaining pink batter and cover with remaining white batter.
  8. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes. Remove from oven. The cake is cooked when it springs back to the touch and will lift away from the pan when lightly shaken. Cool and ice.

For icing:

Combine ingredients until smooth. When cake is cooled, decorate with pink icing and serve cut into wedges.