Pound Cake

My mom used to bake cakes for our birthdays during our childhood.From then i was very interested in baking cakes ,So finally i decided to bake this cake on a very chilly CHRISTMAS DAY .

Ingredients
2&1/2 cups of sugar
2 cup butter
2&1/2 Maida (All purpose flour)
2spn Vanilla Essence
1 spn Baking Powder
8 Eggs

Procedure
Preheat the oven at 350 F for 10 mins
Sieve the Maida and keep aside
Mix Sugar and butter into fine paste and then add one egg at a time and mix it.Add Vanilla Essence and mix.
Then 1 spoon Maida at a time and mix continously until no lumps are seen .
Grease the baking tray and pour the dough into it and bake it for around 45 minutes .