How To Make Easy Birthday Cake
Make birthdays more special with this versatile birthday cake, a dairy-free soft and moist cake that’s made in just under one hour!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 3cupscake flour
- 1¾cupswhite sugar
- 1¼cupswater
- ½cupshortening
- 2½tspbaking powder
- 1½tspvanilla extract
- 1tspsalt
For Egg Substitute:
- 3tbspwater
- 2tspbaking powder
- 3tbspvegetable oil
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 8-inch cake pans.
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Combine all egg substitute ingredients in a small bowl. Whisk until well combined.
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Combine the cake flour, sugar, water, shortening, baking powder, vanilla extract, and salt in a large bowl. Add the egg substitute and beat with an electric mixer for about 4 minutes until well mixed.
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Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans.
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Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
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Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool completely before topping with choice of frosting.
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Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 345.70kcal
- Fat:Â 12.33g
- Saturated Fat:Â 2.41g
- Trans Fat:Â 1.15g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 6.06g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 3.13g
- Carbohydrates:Â 56.37g
- Fiber:Â 0.59g
- Sugar:Â 29.28g
- Protein:Â 2.81g
- Sodium:Â 246.72mg
- Calcium:Â 133.18mg
- Potassium:Â 37.43mg
- Iron:Â 2.72mg
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