Cake for Spring

Description
In Romanian: Chec de primavara

Ingredients

 * 4 oz / 125 g butter
 * 5 eggs
 * 8 oz / 250 g sugar
 * 8 oz / 250 g flour
 * vanilla or lemon peel
 * 1 teaspoon baking powder
 * butter and flour to grease and dust the pan
 * ½ cup cold milk
 * ¼ cup rum
 * grated peel from 1 lemon

Directions

 * 1) Cream the butter with the sugar and the 4 yolks added one by one, add 1 whole egg, vanilla and baking powder.
 * 2) Add ½ cup cold milk, ¼ cup rum, grated peel from 1 lemon.
 * 3) Then add the flour and the whipped egg whites. Divide the mixture into 2 parts.
 * 4) Pour the first part (slightly more than half), in a bread pan.
 * 5) To the second part, add food coloring (red or green).
 * 6) Mix well and pour gently over the middle of the batter already in the pan.
 * 7) Bake at medium heat for about a half hour. Test with a wooden pick.