Washington Coconut Pie

½ cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

½ cup milk (or coconut milk)

2 cups flour (pastry)

2 teaspoons baking powder

Cream butter and sugar until light. Add well-beaten eggs and vanilla, then the milk and the sifted flour to which the baking powder has been added. Beat well and pour into well-buttered and flour-sprinkled layer cake pans and bake for twenty minutes in a moderately hot oven. Put cream filling between layers.