![]() Be sure to cover base and sides of pans.Īdd flour, sugar, and cake mix into the bowl of your stand mixer. Spray baking pans with canola oil, then lightly dust with flour. How to Make an Easy Vanilla Cake for Beginners Once the cakes are baked, remove them from the oven and allow to cool for about 10-15 or until you can safely handle them.ġ box White Cake Mix (I prefer Duncan Hines)ĩ ounces Sour Cream (Room Temperature (Can sub flavored yogurts))Ĥ ounces Melted Salted Butter (Can use unsalted butter just add a pinch of salt to recipe.)ģ teaspoons Vanilla Extract (Mix and match extract flavorings to make new combinations) Adjust the baking time according to your oven. ![]() Once I evenly pour my batter into my pans I put them in the preheated 350 degree oven for 28-32 minutes. I let it mix all together until smooth like slightly loose pudding. First the melted butter into the dry ingredients, then the egg and buttermilk mixture followed by the sour cream. I put all of my dry ingredients into the bowl of my stand mixer and give them a little stir. Then I add my yogurt to my sour cream and mix. I add my eggs and extracts to my buttermilk and gently whisk. This is totally optional and just how I like to do it, but you can totally dump them all in in one go! Once my ingredients are room temperature, I like to mix groups of ingredients together. This causes my cakes to slide right out of the pans! I spray the inside of the baking pan with canola oil then lightly coat with flour. Please note that I use 3” high pans and not 2”. This batter fills six to eight 4 inch cake pans, or three 6 inch cake pans, or one and a half 8 inch cake pan. While I wait for my ingredients to come to room temperature, I prepare my pans. Don’t you love this vanilla cake recipe already? Mixing in the Ingredients And guess what? It doesn’t make THAT big of a difference. However, there are times when I’m in a pinch (or just being lazy) and I either don’t allow them to fully come to room temperature or I just mix them cold. I also heat my wet ingredients in the microwave in 15 second bursts to warm it up. Be sure it’s not too hot so it doesn’t cook your eggs. To help speed up the process of bringing my ingredients to room temperature, I run warm water over my eggs and let them sit. For this recipe, I personally allow the ingredients to come to room temperature. Bringing the ingredients to room temperature helps them to emulsify and bind together easier. 1 pound is one pound, but one cup can be 4 ounces or 5 ounces depending on how you scoop it.īringing your ingredients to room temperature is an important step in most baking recipes. The difference in weighing your ingredients versus measuring them in cups is that it provides more accurate consistency in your cakes. I weigh my ingredients using ounces because that’s how I learned, but you can weigh in grams as well. I start off making this vanilla cake recipe by weighing out all of my ingredients using a food scale. This vanilla cake recipe can also be used to fill one and a half three inch high 8″ cake pans or six to seven 4″ cake pans. I bake my cakes in these cake pans here that measure 3″ high versus the standard 2″ high pans. You can torte the layers as needed or use as is. This easy vanilla cake recipe makes three, 3″ high 6″ cake layers. ![]() These ingredients are able to be swapped out like flavored yogurt instead of sour cream ( you can even do half and half like I did in my tutorial here) or switch it up with different flavored extracts. Any kind will due, but I use Duncan Hines. But, I also add a few special ingredients like buttermilk instead of whole milk, sour cream, and a boxed cake mix. I use all of your “traditional” ingredients for this vanilla cake recipe: butter, eggs, flour, sugar, and extracts. This is my take on the original white almond sour cream cake (WASC). ![]() This is especially great for beginner bakers because it so easy to make. This vanilla cake recipe is my base go to recipe and is versatile so I am able to modify it to make new flavor variations. Want a moist delicious cake for your next event? Follow along as I walk you through how I make this tasty vanilla cake. How to Make a Vanilla Cake Recipe for Beginners I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post.
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