LA REINE CAKE (QUEEN CAKE)

Thanks to Edith Strahan
 
Ingredients:

1 ½ cups butter, room temperature
1 ½ cups sugar 
3 eggs 
2 ½ cups sifted cake flour 
2 tsp baking powder 
½ tsp salt 
½ cup plus 3 Tbsp milk 
1 tsp vanilla extract 
Vanilla or Almond Frosting 
 
Directions:

Cream butter in a large mixing bowl; gradually add sugar,
beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time,
beating well after each addition. Combine flour, baking powder 
and salt and sift 3 times; add to creamed mixture alternately 
with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in vanilla.
Pour batter into 3 (9-inch) round cake pans which have been lined 
with wax paper on bottoms only. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until
a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 
for 20 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely. Spread frosting 
between layers and on top and sides of cooled cake.