1 cup sugar
½ cup milk
2½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until light. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder and stir into the mixture, alternating with the milk. Add the vanilla.
Bake in two layers in a moderate oven for twenty minutes. Ice with coconut icing.
Pastry
1 cup flour
2 tablespoons shortening
3 tablespoons cold water