Cookbook

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. PREHEAT oven to 350F.
  2. Spray 2 8-in. round cake pans with oil and line bottoms with parchment.
  3. STIR flour with baking powder and salt in medium bowl.
  4. Beat 3/4 cup butter with granulated sugar in large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium, until fluffy.
  5. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well and scraping down sides of bowl as needed.
  6. Beat in 1 tsp vanilla.
  7. Gently beat in one-third of flour mixture, then add 3/4 cup milk. Repeat, ending with flour mixture.
  8. Divide batter between prepared pans.
  9. BAKE in centre of oven until a cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean, about 35 min.
  10. Cool in pans on a rack for 10 min, then turn cakes out onto rack. Remove parchment.
  11. Cool completely, 1 hour.

  12. Once fully cooled, place the cake on a cake stand and frost.
  13. Refrigerate until icing is firm, about 15 min. Spread remaining icing on top and around the cake.