Basic Yellow Cake
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- Yield Makes 1 eight-inch cake, 3 cups of batter
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pans
- 1 1/3 cups cake flour (not self-rising), sifted, plus more for pans
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup milk
Directions
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Heat oven to 325 degrees. Butter an 8-by-2- inch round cake pan, line with parchment, and coat parchment with more butter. Flour the buttered pan, and tap out excess flour; set pan aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and sugar until light, about 3 minutes. Add the vanilla, and then the eggs, one at a time, beating each until fully incorporated before adding the next.
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Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Add flour mixture and milk to the egg mixture in three additions, beginning with the milk and ending with the flour, and alternating with the milk.
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Transfer batter to prepared pan, and bake until the top of cake springs back when pressed and a cake tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan, transfer to cooling rack, and cool completely.
Note: To make the baked Alaskas, bake this cake in an 11-by-17-inch baking pan until the top springs back and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack, and cool completely.
Recipe Reviews
Reviews (12)
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This makes a very dense, pound-like cake which is very sweet. I used it for my son's birthday cake and everyone seemed to like it. It was not the light, fluffy cake I was after but was good with ice cream.
This is a favorite recipe of mine. My whole family gets excited when I tell them I am making this one. It tastes great and is fairly easy to make for it to be made from scratch. I usually top it with homemade cream cheese icing and strawberries and blueberries. Yum!
I made this as a birthday cake for my 5-year-old son's birthday party, using white whole wheat flour which darkened the color slightly and made it a little "healthier", and I mean just a little! Topped it with whipped cream, fresh whole strawberries and blueberries, and it was a HUGE hit. No one could believe it was a simple yellow cake recipe. Will definitely use it again.
tasted wonderful!!!!! i doubled the recipe and made them in 6 different colours and made a rainbow cake! absolutely DELICIOUS!!!
So to make a 2 layer cake just double the recipe?
So to make a 2 layer cake just double the recipe?
I have made these cupcakes countless times.... they scream "HOMEMADE"! I have had the best results with all room temp ingredients.... I even warm the milk in the microwave before using that!
I Love this cake. I have made it for two birthdaypartys and I'm makeing it agin today. I don't think it's to sweet- great w/chocolate frosting!
I Love this cake. I have made it for two birthdaypartys and I'm makeing it agin today. I don't think it's to sweet- great w/chocolate frosting!
I 've used this cake reciepe over and over agian to make wedding cakes for friends. It taste great. I got the best review just a few weeks ago. I did a cake two years ago and the couple left shortly after the wedding to do relief work in New Orleans, not able to get the top for 1st but ate it on the 2nd annivarsery and they said it was really good and still moist. Thanks for the reciepe.
I chose this recipe because it was using a single 8in. pan and I only wanted a single layer of cake. I don't know wht happened but the cake overflowed in the oven and the middle sunk. Guess the real directions were to use 2 pans. You could tell that it would've been a good one though and we liked the flavor.
i made this as cupcakes and they came out tooooo toooo sweet! i gave one to a diabetic! (shame on me.... She's okay) I'll try billy's vanilla vanilla cupcakes.