Grammy's Kitchen · Vanilla Cake · Best Yellow Cake
One of 51 vanilla cake recipes we measured
from handletheheat.com
51 cooks on handletheheat.com rate it 4.4★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 51.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 89% | 88% |
| total sugar | 138% | 181% |
| egg | 79% | 54% |
| leavener | 5% | 3% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 94% | 86% |
| dairy | 94% | 84% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 254 g | 2 1/4 cups (254 grams) bleached cake flour, (measured correctly) |
| 12 g | 3 teaspoons baking powder |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon baking soda |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt |
| 227 g | 2 sticks (227 grams) unsalted butter, (at cool room temperature) |
| 350 g | 1 3/4 cups (350 grams) granulated sugar |
| 100 g | 2 large eggs, room temperature |
| 100 g | 2 large egg yolks, room temperature |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 57 g | 1/4 cup (57 grams) sour cream or plain full fat yogurt, (at room temperature) |
| 183 g | 3/4 cup whole milk, (at room temperature) |
| 1 Batch Best Chocolate American Buttercream |
Method: 6 steps, published by handletheheat.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I have made a couple of recipes of yours from your website and cookbook - including this cake. I appreciate that you focus on baking (only) and it shows in the quality of your recipes and advise based on science and your hard-earned trial/error…we all benefit” — a cook, 5.0★
“This was absolutely the best yellow cake I've ever made. I usually prefer white but,my friend had been begging so I caved. This cake has the perfect crumb and the perfect crumb. I did use another buttercream chocolate recipe that I prefer. Thanks for a wond” — a cook, 5.0★