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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups flour, all-purpose
- 4 large eggs well beaten
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract pure
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar dark, firmly packed
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 cups powdered sugar well
Method
- Preheat oven 350F (180C).
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until smooth, add the eggs and continue beating until smooth.
- In a bowl, mix the flour and baking powder together and add alternately with the milk to the butter mixture, beating steadily until smooth.
- Add the vanilla and beat until well blended.
- Grease and flour three 9 inch cake pans, divide the batter evenly among the pans, inchspank inch the bottom of the pans to distribute the batter evenly, and bake until a straw inserted in centers comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.
- Let cool completely.
- Meanwhile, to make the icing: melt the butter over low heat in a saucepan, add the brown sugar and milk, bring to a boil, and remove from the heat to cool.
- Add the powdered sugar and mix until well blended.
- When the cake layers are cooled, remove from the pans, place one layer on a cake plate, and spread one third of the icing on the layer.
- Place a second layer over the icing and spread with more icing.
- Top with the third layer and spread icing over the top and around the sides.
