Beat and Bake cake

You will need:
125 g margarine or butter
300 g flour
3 level teaspoons baking powder
200 g sugar
3 eggs
¼ cup milk – maybe a bit more
Few drops vanilla essence

Turn oven on to 200 °C.
Spray a small loaf tin with Spray ’n Cook.
In a mixing bowl, soften the butter in the microwave so that it is soft but not melted.
Then just sift in the flour, baking powder and sugar and drop in the three eggs and the milk and mix with the electric mixer for a minute (or beat by hand for two minutes!), adding more milk to make it soft enough but not runny. Fold in the vanilla essence.
Spoon mixture into the loaf tin, leaving lots in the mixing bowl to lick.
Place in the oven, turning oven down to 180 °C and cook for 40-45 minutes. (This crisps the outside nicely).
Loosen the sides of the loaf, tip out and let it cool for about 20 minutes. Sift a bit of icing sugar over it while still warm, and eat. Alternatively, cool for a bit longer, mix a half a cup of icing sugar, a table spoon of plain yogurt and a teaspoon of lemon together, and drizzle this over the cake.