i can probably help interpret italian recipes - if i can remember the little i learned when living there! (14 years ago and only for 8 months and only with an english family lol)

Basic Butter Cake
20+?
Ingredients:
320g white sugar
250g soft butter, cut into pieces
2 tspn vanilla essence
4 eggs
3 cups self raising flour
1 cup milk

Preparation:
mill into caster sugar by using speed 6 for approx 5-10 seconds
add the butterfly into the bowl
add butter & vanilla and mix at speed 4 for 40-50 seconds until the mix is light in colour and a little fluffy looking

turn speed down to 2 and add
the eggs - one at a time
after each egg turn speed up to 4 for 5 seconds

add 1 cup SR flour with lid off,
turn speed up to 4, mix 5 seconds

turn speed back to 2 and add
1/2 cup milk through lid, mix 3 seconds

add 1 cup SR flour with lid off,
turn speed up to 4, mix 5 seconds

turn speed back to 2 and add
1/2 cup milk through lid, mix 3 seconds

add final 1 cup SR flour with lid off,
turn speed up to 4 and mix 5 seconds

mix for a further 10 seconds until the mix seems light and fluffy.

pour into a greased, lined cake tin. cooking times will vary according to your oven and size of tin but start with 40 mins at around 160-180'c, test with a skewer and cook further as required.

Photos:
Original Link with picture

Tips/Hints:
this makes a large cake (it's the original recipe doubled) so feel free to halve it

Thanks for sharing my recipe. you can see the original here

it's a lovely cake, though very moist and quite rich.

is it the done thing here to link to the recipe source? i hope so, if i'm going to convert recipes for people to use it would be nice to get the credit

original recipe here

thanks!!!

and thanks for sharing the link