Old-Fashioned Birthday Cake

This recipe is for a cake that my family knows simply as pastel de cumpleaños, since I only make it for birthdays. Of course, this doesn’t mean that it can’t be made on other occasions, but for my family, this is a special treat. My neighbor Tey gave me this recipe when I was living in central Mexico in the early 1980s. I remember she was having a party at her house to celebrate her daughter’s birthday, and as I was grabbing a second serving of the cake, I thought to myself, I need t