Grammy's Kitchen · Vanilla Cake · Yellow Cake
One of 51 vanilla cake recipes we measured
from therecipecritic.com
5 cooks on therecipecritic.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 | 42% | 88% |
| total sugar | 117% | 181% |
| egg | 78% | 54% |
| leavener | 4% | 3% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 119% | 86% |
| dairy | 119% | 84% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 256 g | 2 1/4 Cups Cake Flour |
| 300 g | 1 1/2 Cups Granulated Sugar |
| 12 g | 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder |
| 2 g | 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda |
| 3 g | 1/2 Teaspoon Salt |
| 245 g | 1 Cup Buttermilk |
| 61 g | 1/4 Cup Milk |
| 4 g | 1 Teaspoon Vanilla |
| 109 g | 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil |
| 150 g | 3 Large Eggs |
Method: 4 steps, published by therecipecritic.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“The recipe was easy to follow resulting in a light and fluffy cake texture. Unfortunately the flavor was similar to cornbread which means this recipe is too much effort for a mediocre cornbread. I was really hoping for this recipe to have better results. I wil” — a cook, 2.0★
“Best Yellow cake recipe. I was very happy with results. Moist, not too sweet and simple to make.” — a cook, 5.0★