Little Chloe’s 1st birthday today so I heard and her daddy has to work this evening as well.

It was a coincidence that I was going to bake some cake today.This butter cake turns out moist and delicious having found this recipe when browsing through some cookbooks. Good for an afternoon tea.

Ingredients (serves 4)

• 250gm butter,soften
• 1 tsp vanilla essence extract
• 1 1/4 cup caste sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups self raising flour
• 3/4 cup milk

Method

1 Preheat oven to 180’C. Grease deep 20cm square or 22cm round tin pan. Line with baking paper

2 Beat butter, extract, and sugar in medium bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy.

Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in sifted flour and milk, in two batches.

3 Spread mixture into pan and bake for 1 hour. Stand cake 5 minutes, turn, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool. Slice and serve. Voila!