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