Grammy's Kitchen · Vanilla Cake · Best Yellow Cake Recipe (From scratch)
One of 51 vanilla cake recipes we measured
from joyfoodsunshine.com
17 cooks on joyfoodsunshine.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 51.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 80% | 88% |
| total sugar | 119% | 181% |
| egg | 48% | 54% |
| leavener | 2% | 3% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 171% | 86% |
| dairy | 171% | 84% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 210 g | 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon baking powder |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt |
| 114 g | 1/2 cup salted butter (softened) |
| 250 g | 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar |
| 100 g | 2 eggs |
| 115 g | 1/2 cup sour cream |
| 244 g | 1 cup whole milk |
| 54 g | 1/4 cup canola oil |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract |
| Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe |
Method: 12 steps, published by joyfoodsunshine.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Perfect cake, amazing flavor and wonderful, clear instructions. Great recipe! The house smelled heavenly while it baked. Thank you so much. We made it gluten free with Pamela's flour and at altitude 6,000 feet.. Only raised temp to 360 and added 1/4 cup extra” — a cook, 5.0★
“The absolute best yellow cake recipe! It pairs well with any frosting. I used a pineapple and peach preserve combo and it was heavenly! Along with the vanilla extract i added 1 tsp of cake batter extract and 1 tsp of creme bouquet extract and it took the flav” — a cook, 5.0★