Rich Butter Cake

INGREDIENTS
Cake
2¼ cups self raising flour
½ cup custard powder
2 cups caster sugar
1 cup milk
4 eggs, lightly beaten
250g butter, softened
2 tsp vanilla essence

Icing
125g butter
1½ cups icing sugar
2 tbsp milk

METHOD
Cake
Grease a deep 25cm square cake pan, cover base with paper, grease paper.
Combine sifted flour and custard powder with remaining ingredients in large bowl of electric mixer.
Beat on medium speed for 10 minutes, or until mixture is thick and creamy.
Pour mixture into prepared pan and bake in moderate oven for 1¼ hours, or until lightly brown and cooked when tested.
Let stand in tin for five minutes, then turn onto wire rack to cool.
Ice with rich icing, and decorate as desired (great for birthday cakes!).

Icing
Combine butter, milk and sugar until smooth and creamy.

COMMENTS
Very nice tasty cake

SOURCE
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