Cake and Sweets

Over the weekend, my mom baked a butter cake for the Qing Ming festival instead of the normal steamed sponge cake that she usually make every year... It's been really really long time she hasn't bake a cake... probably the last time was when I was about 10 years old? She baked a cake with the face of a dolly for my birthday?

So, I asked her, "how come you don't need recipe book for baking the butter cake?"
yea, my mom has this old and thick recipe book, all the collections of the good recipes that she collected throughout the years...Anyway, the question that I asked shows that I really don't know about bakery... Butter cake is the most basic cake to make... and after all, the recipe is so simple that anybody also can remember...

To bake a 1 pound of butter cake, all u need is
1 pound of butter (454 grams) which is equivalent to 2 pieces of the butter
1 pound of sugar
1 pound of self-raising flour
10 eggs
That's all!

You mix the butter and sugar until all are melted...
then slowly add 1 egg at a time to the batter and plus the flour...
then just put into the oven to bake.. about 180 degrees Celcius...
So simple! and smells damn nice too!

But did you know that this rich butter cake is so sinful? Imagine you having one piece of this cake, containing so much sugar....If you had this cake in icing, OMG! even more sugar consumption...I'm so thankful that my mom doesn't bake cake that often, if not, my body size would be twice the size of what I'm having right now... haha