Tree cake

Addie, known for her love of cooking, has been made responsible for making the dessert for Mimi's Christmas Feast.  She has decided on white cake (from scratch, mommy!!!).  We're using a Christmas tree cake pan that is equal to a 9"x9" pan.

I'm new to cooking without boxes, so I googled "easy white cake recipe" and found this simple recipe on allrecipes.com .  I had (most) all the ingredients handy, so it was an easy choice. 

Ingredients

1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter
 2 eggs (we stick to cage free brown eggs)
 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk (we used reduced fat)
Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.Grease and flour a 9x9 inch pan (in any shape, my friends).

In a bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan.
Addie did all the early mixing.  I'm not sure if I can recommend lettting a 4 year old use an electric mixer- but it worked for us.  We switched jobs during the dry ingredients part.... then shared the task of stirring in the milk.

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven.