Basic Easy Butter Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

125 g butter or 125 g margarine
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
1/2 cup milk

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add eggs one at a t ime beating well after each addition. Add vanilla essence. Beat.
Fold flour into creamed mixture alternating with milk, beginning and ending with flour.
Spoon into greased 20cm square cake tin.
Bake in moderate oven (180 degrees C) for 35 to 40 minutes until skewer inserted into centre comes out clean.
Allow to cool in tin 5 minutes before turning out. Cool completely before icing.