Shamrock cake: Taste the rainbow

I had a craving for cake, so I decided to try my hand at a rainbow shamrock cake!

For the cake:

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

1 3/4 cup sugar

3 cups sifted all purpose flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoons salt

1 cup milk

5 eggs (separated)

Food coloring

For the frosting:

1/3 cup softened butter

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or whatever)

1 pound (about 3 1/2 cups) sifted confectioners sugar

2 egg whites (unbeaten)

1 Tablespoon milk (about)

food coloring

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Step 1: Mixing the batter

Preheat oven to 350 degees.

Grease and lightly flour two 8 inch pans.

Cream butter and sugar well. Add dry ingredients, sifted together, alternating with milk and egg yolks, beginning with dry and ending with dry.

Beat the egg white until they hold stiff peaks and fold them into batter. (This step isn't completely necessary as when I added the food coloring I flattened all that fluffy goodness. I suppose you could separate the batter, then color it and add an equal amount of egg whites, but I went another way as you shall see)