Polka Dot Basket Cake

                     Alhamdulillah… Today I reached the milestone of posting 1000 recipes in my blog. What initially started as a space for saving my tried recipes for future reference, turned out to be a passion for active blogging. My heartfelt thanks for all of you for your kind support and encouragement. I would like to thank my family, husband and especially three young children- Safa, Sheza and Shayaan who excitedly kept counting the number of posts in my blog. And a special thanks to my dear brother Sabith for constantly helping me on the technical sides of the website….

Ingredients:

For Cake :

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree celcius.
2. Sift together plain flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and keep it aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter, sugar and vanilla essence using a beater till creamy and fluffy.
4. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
5. Then alternately add the flour mixture (in three additions) and milk (in two additions), beginning and ending with the flour and fold gently.
6. Divide the batter into 2 parts – 1/3 and 2/3. Then further divide the 1/3 rd part of batter evenly between 6 bowls for tinting.
7. Add different shades of food gels/ colorings in each bowl and mix until you have all 6 bright colours.
8. Pour this coloured batter on the greased cake pop mould and bake for 12-13 minutes. ( or in the cake pop making machine and cook cake pops according to the instruction).

1. In a bowl or in the bowl of an electric mixer, add butter and beat on medium speed until completely smooth.
2. One cup at time, add 2 cups of icing sugar , beating after each addition.
3. Add vanilla extract and beat to combine. Add about 1 tbsp of milk/ cream and continue beating.
4. Add the remaining 2 cups of icing sugar, one at a time and beat. Add 1-2 tbsp milk/ cream and beat until the desired consistency is reached.