Grammy's Kitchen · Vanilla Cake · Homemade Yellow Cake Mix
One of 51 vanilla cake recipes we measured
13 cooks on www.melskitchencafe.com rate it 4.5★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 51.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 65% | 88% |
| total sugar | 114% | 181% |
| egg | 0% | 54% |
| leavener | 3% | 3% |
| salt | 2% | 1% |
| liquid | 35% | 86% |
| dairy | 35% | 84% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 400 g | 2 cups granulated sugar |
| 180 g | 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour |
| 171 g | 1 1/2 cups cake flour |
| 122 g | 1/2 cup nonfat dry milk powder |
| 12 g | 1 tablespoon baking powder |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon salt |
| 227 g | 1 cup salted butter (cut into 1/2-inch pieces and chilled) |
| 13 g | 1 tablespoon vanilla extract |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.melskitchencafe.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
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