Basic Butter Cake

This is the first cake that I ever made. Great basic cake for making kids’ birthday cakes.

Ingredients

• 185 g butter softened
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 3 eggs large
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/4 cup milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180C and grease a 20 cm cake tin well.
2. In a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar and vanilla together with an electric mixer until light and creamy.
3. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition.
4. Sift the flour over the mixture alternately with the milk, adding a third at a time. Stir in lightly.
5. Spoon batter into prepared tin and bake for 50-60 minutes or until a skewer pulls clean from the middle of the cake.
6. Cool cake in tin for a few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
7. Cake can be iced or dusted with icing sugar if desired.