1-2-3-4 CAKE

This is an OLD recipe!

4 eggs
3 cups all purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup (2 sticks) UNSALTED butter,at room temperature
1 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 3 9" round cake pans.

1. Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl at medium speed till smooth

2. Add eggs,beating till smooth. At low speed, alternatelybeat in the flour mixture and milk. Beat in vanilla. Scrape into pans,dividing equally.

3. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool on racks for 10 minutes.

4. Meanwhile prepare ICING: Melt 1 stick UNSALTED butter over low heat. Add 1 cup DARK BROWN sugar and 1/4 cup milk. Bring to boiling, stirring to dissolve. Remove from heat and COOL. Beat in 2 cups powdered sugar to milk mixture until smooth, Frost and stack layers of cake.

By Sharon Shearer

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Beverley

April 18, 20050 found this helpful

Hi Sharon

I began to read the recipe and realised that you left out eggs in the ingredients. I am assuming becuase you have eggs in the instructions, that they have to go in.

Do you use 2 eggs?

This is very similar to a tried and true vanilla cake recipe I use all the time....

By the way, how much does a stick of butter weigh? I'm an Aussie, and our butter comes in 500g paper wrapped packets.. just over 1 lb in your measurements. Actually I wish they would sell it in smaller amounts... especially when you run out just before pay day...lol

Cheers

Bev

Sharon

April 18, 20050 found this helpful

Bev, Sorry I DID leave out the eggs in the 1-2-3-4 cake recipe.It calls for 4 eggs. As for the butter it calls for 1 cup or 2 sticks my guess is maybe half of that package.I really don't know anything about it as far as weight.

I'm very sorry,but I'm very flattered that someone from that far away enjoyed my recipe.

Patti

April 24, 20050 found this helpful

2 sticks of butter is 1/2 pound. So you were right about that.

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