Four Sisters Food

Ingredients

Cake

2 1/4 cups flour

1 1/2 cups sugar

3/4 cup butter at room temperature

3/4 cup milk

3 large eggs at room temperature

2 1/2 teaspoons of double acting baking powder

Pinch of salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Frosting

1lb or 500g confectioners/icing sugar

1/2 cup/1 stick or 125g butter at room temperature

1 teaspoon high quality vanilla extract

3-5 tablespoons milk

Method

Cake

Preaheat the oven to 375 F or 190 C.  Grease and flour 2 8 inch or 20 centimeter cake pans.  Place all the ingredients in a large bowl and beat with an electic mixer for 5 minutes until well blended.  Pour the mixture into pans, dividing evenly.  Spread it in each pan with a slight indentation in the middle and raised slightly at the sides.  Bake for 25 minutes or until the cake springs back when pressed lightly with your finger and shrinks slightly from the sides of the pan.  Cool the pans on wire racks for 5 minutes and then turn out the cakes onto the racks and cool completely.

Frosting

Mix the sugar, butter and vanilla with an eletric mixer or in a food processor.  Gradually add the milk until the mixture is a spreadable consistency.  Be careful not to add too much milk.  Sandwich the two cake layers together with the frosting and then frost the sides and top.

Serves 10