Basic Vanilla Cake
photo by Adrien V.
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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1 8" cake layer
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups cake flour, sifter
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup whole milk
directions
- Heat the oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly coat an 8-inch cake pan with butter and dust with all-purpose flour. Sift the cake flour, baking powder, and salt into a large mixing bowl.
- Beat in the butter one heaping 1/4 teaspoonful at a time, using an electric mixer set on low speed, until the mixture resembles coarse sand. Beat in the sugar a tablespoon at a time, until the mixture resembles fine damp sand. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the vanilla and milk, and beat on medium-high, just until blended. Do not overbeat.
- Pour into the prepared pan and bake until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean — 30 to 35 minutes. Cool cake in the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes.
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Reviews
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The cake made a good, tasty base for a strawberry shortcake. I don't think I would make it for anything else, because it was a dense, not too sweet cake. But that made it an excellent choice for a shortcake (our family doesn't care for the biscuit style shortcake). I also think the temperature was a bit high as my cake was quite dark in 30 minutes. I ended up cutting off some crust.
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