Grammy's Kitchen · Vanilla Cake · Yellow Cake
One of 51 vanilla cake recipes we measured
from www.livewellbakeoften.com
It ranks #4 of 51 for crumb tenderness among the vanilla cake recipes we compared. 1 cooks on www.livewellbakeoften.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 | 181% | 88% |
| total sugar | 272% | 181% |
| egg | 145% | 54% |
| leavener | 3% | 3% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 98% | 86% |
| dairy | 98% | 84% |
| chocolate | 19% | 0% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 345 g | 3 cups cake flour (spooned & leveled (345 grams)) |
| 8 g | 2 teaspoons baking powder |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 245 g | 1 cup buttermilk (room temperature (240 ml)) |
| 54 g | 1/4 cup vegetable or canola oil ((60 ml)) |
| 13 g | 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract |
| 230 g | 1 cup Danish Creamery unsalted butter (softened (2 sticks; 230 grams)) |
| 400 g | 2 cups granulated sugar ((400 grams)) |
| 300 g | 6 large egg yolks (at room temperature) |
| 200 g | 4 large egg whites (at room temperature) |
| 340 g | 1 1/2 cups Danish Creamery unsalted butter (softened (3 sticks; 340 grams)) |
| 540 g | 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar ((540 grams)) |
| 65 g | 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (sifted (65 grams)) |
| 92 g | 6 tablespoons whole milk |
| 6 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract |
| 1 g | 1/8 teaspoon salt |
Method: 20 steps, published by www.livewellbakeoften.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Baked this cake twice. Swapped the vegetable oil for coconut oil. So delish moist and made some chocolate butter cream. So simple and so decadent. Do you have any tips to try and use it to make into cupcakes? ” — a cook, 5.0★