Grandpa's 94th Birthday Cake (aka 1-2-3-4 Cake)

This is a family recipe. All I know is my grandpa's birthday was happening and my family asked me to bake a cake, and this one happens to be his favorite.  Post celebrations he said my great grandmother would have approved of the cake.

Ingredients:

1 cup unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
3 cups flour
4 eggs
3/4 cup whole milk
3 tsp baking powder
1-2 tsp grated lemon peel
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

1. Cream butter, sugar, eggs. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. add flour mixture alternately with milk. Add lemon peel and vanilla

2. Coat angel food or bundt cake tin with 1 tablespoon butter and line with pecans sliced sliver thin (if you don't want to slice the pecan you can dice them) coat both the inside ring and the outside with pecans. 

3. Spoon batter into pan and bake at 350 for 45-60 min until toothpick inserted shows cake is done.

4. Cool completely before unmolding.

5.  Enjoy!