Help with making a cake :S?!

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the basic cake recipe is called 1-2-3-4 cake. very popular. my Dad made it with a spoon. i made it with hand mixer.
1 cup butter [1 cup = 2 sticks] 1 cup milk 1 tbsb vanilla
2 cups sugar
3 cups flour 3 tsp baking powder
4 eggs.

put butter and eggs in small bowl. let them reach room temperature. preheat oven to 350 degrees.
grease and flour 3 layer pans or 1 large bundt pan.

now make the cake: in large bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy. add sugar. beat. add eggs one at a time. measure milk in cup. add a lot of vanilla extract. add flour 1 cup at a time, alternating with 1/3 milk. beat until just blended. pour into prepared pans. bake in oven until cake tester is clean. about i hr for the bundt pan and 30 min for layers. it makes great cupcakes too!

you can make different cakes with this basic recipe. flour walnuts and almond extract for a walnut cake. add unsweetened cocoa for chocolate, lemon extract and zest for lemon, etc.

My granny makes cupcakes with butter, eggs, milk, sugar and flower. I suppose you could just make a giant cupcake. The way she does it is;

1) Put about a cup of flour in a mixing bowl.

2) add a generous amount of sugar (She uses brown but white's fine) (About 1/3 cup of sugar)

3) two eggs.

4) Add about three large spoons of butter.

5) about 50ml of milk

6) Mix.

7) Bake. (: