Basic Yellow Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter
1 c. milk
2 c. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
3 c. plain flour
4 large eggs, separated
1 tsp. vanilla
pinch of salt

Preparation

Cream butter until it is light and fluffy.
Add sugar, a little at a time, mixing after each addition.
Sift flour with salt and baking powder three times.
Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition.
Add flour alternately with milk, adding a bit of flour last.
Beat egg whites and add to batter, using a folding method.
Add vanilla.
Bake in a well-greased tube pan, three 9-inch pans, sheet cake pan or make muffins.
Bake at 350\u00b0 until cake springs back when pressed with fore finger. Frost with your favorite frosting or enjoy plain.