Hello friend i am @sualeha from Pakistan it's pleasure for me to share my participation in week 3 by making Ribbon cake.I have great fun during baking my today's cake learned by the course recipe shared by our lovely teacher @m-fdo it's my first experience of making ribbon cake .So guys let's move on my step by step recipe with procedure,I am trying to share relevant images during the specific steps, helpful for all ......Contest post link share here

Make the given recipe in detail with step by step pictures. Include your name tag with the date at the final presentation of the recipe

By first I share the complete ingredients list with exect quantities and images first ....

Ingredients list

S.no	Items	Quantity	Images
1	Food colour red/green	few drops
2	Butter	150 gm
2	All purpose flour	150gm
3	Sugar	150 gm
4	Baking powder	1/2 tbs
5	Eggs	3
6	vanilla essence	few drops

For icing

• Butter
• Powder sugar

How I made step by step procedure

Exploring new recipes always great pleasure for me ,I baked the Ribbon cake recipe first time but the perfect result I got easily,I exactly followed the course recipe let's start my baking ...

Step 1

By first I took a clean bowl 🥣 added butter and sugar in required quantities and blended by hand beater.

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Make sure incorporated the sugar and butter very well untill creamy textured form now moved on other step .

Step :2

Added eggs one by one in bowl and beated very well .I used hand blender for beaten the eggs for smooth and fluffy texture, because I want sponge and soft cake .

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After that incorporated few drops of vanilla essence in cake mixture it's give aromatic flavour to our cake ,I always added in mostly cake mixtures.

Step :3

Now added and all purpose flour in the mixture very,1/2 table spoon of baking powder in it after svit.

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Mixed all ingredients very well by cut and fold method,fold the cake mixture by light hands over mixing might be make your cake harder so used lightly mixed. Now I half dividend the mixture in 2 portions and added red and green colour mixed evenly.

Step :4

pre heated the over first at 180 cc degrees for 40 minutes.i usually on the oven then start cake presentation it's saved our time .

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Placed the butter paper on cake tin and converted the all mixture in pan and tap the tin to removed the air in the cake pan.Now put the oven at 140 degrees for 30 minutes.I used two separate cake tin for red and green cake as you see in images.

Step :5

During baking checked the cake by tooth pic insert and when I got dry I off the oven and bring out the cake and let it cool on wire rack and covers twith kitchen cloth till cool completely then cutted by knife in equal size of both cakes .

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I cutted the cake pieces and applied butter and icing sugar mixture evenly in the between of the cake layers ,the richness and flavours become double after this step that is why I liked this cake too much as compared to the previous cakes my kids enjoyed and like the beautiful colour combination.The striking food colour gave really fantastic look to our cake.

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For cake icing preparation is also very simple for the combined the powder sugar and butter very well like creamy form.

Final presentation

Here is the final presentation of my Ribbon cake ,my kids really liked it,the turned out of the cake is super fluffy and attractive colour ,I observed that every new cake were more perfect and tempting then previous one.I hope you all like my recipe of the cake , thanks to @m-do who taught us step by step procedure of the cake in cake challenge.

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^{Final look of my Ribbon cake with my user name and date}

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What difficulties did you encounter while making this recipe?

Friends I am enjoying the whole procedure of baking the rich , tasty and vibrant look Ribbon cake .Over all I never faced any difficulty but yes for baking two different colours cake at one time never experienced before.I learned the new recipe of Ribbon cake from this fruitful course.

Explain the importance of each of the ingredients you used in making this cake

Butter

Butter rich in fat and soluble vitamins ,it's a good source of vitamin A ,D,E and K that essential for growing kids .All dairy products gives us energy and good fats so really good for all age group.

Flour

Whole grain flour provides us carbohydrates ,it's provides us fiber , vitamins and minerals.In Pakistan our break fast , dinner never considered completed with our wheat flour,it's provides instant energy to our body and we felt filler longer .

Eggs

Eggs are high quality source of vitamin , protein ,good for repairing and building up muscles of our body .Having vitamins D ,B12 and the minerals.In this recipe we added three eggs means good amount of protein we got from this cake .

Sugar

Sugar is a source of energy in our body ,natural sugar is good for all our health ,but make sure not used in excess , otherwise health regarding issues like obesity and diabetes risk used every thing in moderation you never face trouble in life .

If you were given the opportunity to share this delicious cake with a Steemit friend, who would you share it with? Explain why you chose that friend. (Must be at least 100 words.)

Well If I will get the opportunity to share this delicious cake with a Steemit friend,I would love to share it with my lovely friend and my teacher @m-do
because I think she really deserved as gift from my side ,due to cake challenge she giving us learning and exploring new cake recipes so I love if she accept my invitation.

Actually we all steemians are like family members we share our talent, emotions, memorable moments and much more ,I never meet her but some interests are common between us like she really good baker ,very creative girl making DIY, drawing and crafts and I also big fan of these types of contents.I learned many informative stuff regarding art and crafts and cooking, baking as well .I hope she will like to eat my home made cake in my company,she is really hardworking and constantly work in her style .

So guys it's all about from my today's participation I hope you will enjoy and try out this recipe on my recommendation I am sure your all love once like it .to finish I would like to invite my friends @suboohi ,@lirvic ,@dasudi and @afzalqamar ,@arshani to participate in yummy cake challenge and share your special chocolate cake with .See you soon with my new blog till then take care byee

Happy baking

Lovely regards
@sualeha