The Best White Cake Recipe
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4.9
The Best White Cake Recipe
Description
The Best White Cake Recipe features a combination of softened butter and avocado oil, sugar, and egg whites whipped to stiff peaks to add air and lightness. The dry ingredients include all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt, gradually mixed with milk to maintain moisture and create a tender texture. Beating the butter with sugar and oil before adding flour and milk helps achieve a creamy batter consistency. Baking the batter in greased, floured 8-inch pans lined with parchment promotes a uniform golden crust.
This cake suits layered cakes with vanilla buttercream or other frostings like cream cheese or Swiss meringue. The flavor is subtly sweet with vanilla notes, and the texture is soft yet resilient enough for slicing and stacking. It's well suited for celebrations or gatherings requiring a classic white cake base.
Due to the use of egg whites and oil, the crumb is moist but not dense. Separately whipping egg whites adds lift and lightness, distinguishing it from denser butter cakes. The recipe allows flexibility in frosting choice to customize sweetness and richness.
Ingredients
- 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- ⅔ cup avocado oil or canola oil or vegetable oil
- 2 cup sugar
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract clear
- 2 ⅔ cup all-purpose flour 2 Tablespoons
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk room temperature preferred
- 6 egg room temperature, large, whites
- vanilla buttercream frosting click link for recipe, double batch
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and prepare two 8-inch round cake pans by lining the bottoms with a round of parchment paper and generously greasing and flouring the sides. Be sure to shake out excess flour.
- In a stand mixer (or using an electric mixer), beat butter on medium-low speed until creamy.
- Add sugar and oil and beat until all ingredients are well-combined and creamy.
- Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl and then stir in your vanilla extract.
- In separate bowl, whisk together your flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Measure out your milk.
- With mixer on medium speed, gradually alternate between adding the flour mixture and the milk to the butter mixture, starting and ending with the flour mixture. Stir until each one is almost completely combined before adding the next.
- Pause occasionally to scrape down sides and bottom of bowl.
- In separate bowl combine your egg whites and using a hand-mixer on high-speed beat until stiff peaks form.
- Using a spatula, gently fold your egg whites into your batter. Take care to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl so that ingredients are well-combined, and take care not to over-mix.
- Evenly divide cake batter into prepared pans.
- Bake on 350F for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake layer comes out clean or with few crumbs (should not be wet). For best results, rotate your cake pans halfway through baking to ensure even baking.
- Cakes will be a light golden brown when done baking.
- Remove cakes from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the inside rim of each pan and invert each onto a cooling rack.
- Allow to cool completely before covering with buttercream frosting*. I used a double batch of my recipe (linked above) to thoroughly cover and decorate this cake.
Notes
- Try cream cheese, Swiss meringue buttercream, peanut butter frosting, or chocolate cream cheese frosting as alternatives to vanilla buttercream.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 12slices
Amount Per Serving
Calories 415 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1slice | |
| Calories | 415kcal | 21% |
| Carbohydrates | 56g | 19% |
| Protein | 5g | 10% |
| Fat | 19g | 29% |
| Saturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Trans Fat | 1g | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 17mg | 6% |
| Sodium | 230mg | 10% |
| Potassium | 186mg | 4% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 35g | 70% |
| Vitamin A | 208IU | 4% |
| Calcium | 74mg | 7% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Overall Rating
4.9
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