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Vanilla Cake Recipe
Looking for the BEST Vanilla Cake recipe? This vanilla layer cake is moist with a tender crumb and lots of vanilla flavor. Just add your favorite frosting and serve!
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
45 mins
Servings:
16
servings
Calories:
261 kcal
Course:
Cake
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups cake flour
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- ¾ cup butter room temperature, unsalted
- 1 ¾ cups granulated sugar
- 3 egg large
- 2 egg large, whites
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 9-inch cake pans and line bottoms with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a bowl, combine cake flour with salt and baking powder. Use a whisk to blend everything together. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter with sugar for 2 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add in eggs and egg whites, and vanilla extract. Beat for 2 minutes.
- Alternating additions of the dry ingredients with the buttermilk, slowly add each (about 3 additions of each. After final addition of buttermilk, beat 1-2 minutes until fluffy.
- Pour evenly into prepared cake pans. Bake for 25-28 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool in pans 5 minutes, then remove from pan and cool on wire rack completely.
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Notes
- Can also use baking spray or my homemade cake release to grease pans.
- Using a whisk to blend dry ingredients helps keep the flour airy and light.
- Buttermilk- you can swap this for whole milk or use my easy buttermilk substitute!
- Bake the cake layers the night before. Wrap cooled cake in plastic wrap. Assemble and frost the day of serving.
- Level the cakes. Use a serrated knife and carefully slice off the domed tops of the cake layers. This provides a sturdy layer cake and the layers won't slide with frosting between them!
- Spread about 1 1/2 - 2 cups of frosting between the layers, which leaves plenty for the outside!
Nutrition Information
Serving
1slice
Calories
261kcal
(13%)
Carbohydrates
40g
(13%)
Protein
4g
(8%)
Fat
10g
(15%)
Saturated Fat
6g
(30%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
3g
(18%)
Cholesterol
58mg
(19%)
Sodium
175mg
(7%)
Sugar
23g
(46%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 16 servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 261
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1slice | |
| Calories | 261kcal | 13% |
| Carbohydrates | 40g | 13% |
| Protein | 4g | 8% |
| Fat | 10g | 15% |
| Saturated Fat | 6g | 30% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 3g | 18% |
| Cholesterol | 58mg | 19% |
| Sodium | 175mg | 7% |
| Sugar | 23g | 46% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.