How To Make Simple Vanilla Cake
Frosted with buttercream, you can never go wrong with a moist vanilla cake made from simple ingredients for a delightfully sweet dessert.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ¾cupunsalted butter
- 1⅓cupssugar
- 3large eggs
- 2tspvanilla extract
- 1cupwhole milk,at room temperature
- 2¼cupsflour
- 2¼tspbaking powder
- ½tspsalt
- *classic buttercream frosting,(see Recipe Notes for recipe)
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and butter and flour 2 8-inch cake pans.
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Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt then set aside.
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To your stand mixer add the butter and sugar and beat them together for 2 to 3 minutesuntil light and fluffy on medium speed, then add in the eggs 1 at a time 15 seconds apart along with the vanilla then lower the speed to low.
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Add the flour mixture and milk, alternating a little of each at a time.
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Pour into the cake pans evenly and bake for 25 to 30 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
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Once cakes are cooled frost them with the buttercream frosting.
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Serve and enjoy.
Recipe Notes
*Check out the Classic Buttercream Frosting Recipe to learn how to make the fluffy frosting.
Nutrition
- Calories: 305.77kcal
- Fat: 13.59g
- Saturated Fat: 8.09g
- Trans Fat: 0.47g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.63g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.81g
- Carbohydrates: 41.47g
- Fiber: 0.63g
- Sugar: 23.41g
- Protein: 4.75g
- Cholesterol: 79.04mg
- Sodium: 193.78mg
- Calcium: 100.77mg
- Potassium: 74.12mg
- Iron: 0.61mg
- Vitamin A: 126.40µg
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