Grandmom's Party Cake

In honor of my mom's birthday, I thought it would be nice to make her a cake from her mother's recipe book. I forgot to bring the recipe book back from her house to mine so I called my dad and asked him to take a picture of a cake recipe from the book and send it to me. 

He sent me a recipe for "Party Cake". As I looked of the recipe to ensure I had the proper ingredients I realized their was no baking instructions. No big deal. I figured I would make this a layer cake and bake at 350..problem solved! 

I started preparing the cake and didn't even realize during my initial scan that there was no sugar in the ingredients. This was a bigger issue than the baking instructions! Luckily I called my dad and he advised me to use 1 cup of sugar. 

Here is the "edited" recipe:

Party Cake

3 3/4 cup flour
3 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup oil
1 1/2 cup milk
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3 eggs 

In a large bowl mix sugar, milk, oil, eggs, vanilla, and milk
In a separate bowl mix dry ingredients
Add dry mixture gradually to the wet ingredients
Mix thoroughly

Pour into to 2 prepared 9" round pans and bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean 

Once cool ice as desired, I used :

Chocolate Icing

2 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
6 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
6 tbsp butter
5 tbsp evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Mix sugar and cocoa in a medium bowl In a large bowl cream butter and beat in sugar mixture alternating between the evaporated milk
Add the vanilla and beat until light and fluffy