Ingredients:

• 225 gms – Refined flour
• 2 tsp – Baking powder
• A pinch salt
• 115 gms – Butter or margarine
• 225 gms – Sugar
• 2 – eggs
• 150 ml – Milk
• 1 tsp – Lemon essence
• For Butter cream:
• 225 gms – Icing Sugar
• 115 gms – Butter

Method:

1. Sift flour with baking powder 3 times.
2. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
3. Beat one egg at a time and add to creamed mixture.
4. Continue beating.
5. Fold in dry ingredients.
6. Add essence. Pour into 2 greased 5 cm pans.
7. Bake at 190 degrees C for 15-20 mins.
8. <b>For butter cream:</b> Cream ingredients together and use enough to sandwich cake. To the remaining cream add 55 gms butter and 225 gms icing sugar, and use this to ice and decorate cake.