The Most AMAZING Vanilla Cake Recipe

Today , I'm teaching you how to make the only vanilla cake recipe you'll ever need .

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This cake will be ready before you know it .

So let's get started first off , set your oven to 350 prep your 28 inch pans .

You could also make this with 36 inch pans .

If you want .

Can you give the sides a nice bit of butter little for the bottom and then just place that sheet right there .

A circle of parent paper is your insurance for no broken or cracked cakes when they released .

That is heartbreak for this cake .

We're using 2.5 cups or 280 g of all purpose flour .

This cake will be the best if you measure flour the right way , which is with a scale .

If you're not using a scale fluff the flour up and then Sprinkle it into your measuring cup .

Now we're adding three quarters of a teaspoon of salt and two and a quarter teaspoons of baking powder .

Now , we're gonna sift it up and whisk it out .

Now we're gonna sift it out and whisk it up .

Set it aside .

Right .

Let's get that stand mixer for this cake .

We're using three quarters of a cup or 100 and 70 g of room temperature , unsalted butter and room temperature means you can press into the butter and it will yield to the touch .

We're going to cream the butter up .

So it is nice and smooth before we add the sugar .

And while we cream it up , we can crack three eggs into a small bowl .

You do not want any shells in your delicious vanilla cake .

What our butter is nice and creamed up .

You can always scrape the bowl down a little bit before you add another ingredient in .

We want a homogenous mixture .

Now we're gonna add one and two thirds cups of granulated sugar .

That's 333 g added in wild mixing , increase to high and get it nice and fluffy mix for three minutes .

Looks fluffy on top but not so much on the bottom .

So we're gonna scrape it down .

Look at this .

This is not fluffy , just scrape it down and mix it up once it's light and fluffy , we're going to add three eggs in one at a time .

Let the first one incorporate before you add the next .

Otherwise you'll have an egg soup on top and solid butter on the bottom plastic .

Now it's time for a tablespoon or 15 ml of a nice vanilla .

This is the primary flavor in the cake .

So mm .

Don't skimp on it if possible in you go that the smell is amazing .

One last grape down .

And then we're gonna add the dry mixture and the buttermilk in alternating batches , bring that flour back .

I also measured out one cup of buttermilk and just like with the eggs .

If possible , everything should be a room temperature .

You don't wanna add ice cold ingredients into an oven because then the cake won't bake really evenly .

You want it to bake nicely throughout .

So it's pretty flat .

If you don't , you're gonna have a big dome on the top and the edges will be burnt .

Ok ?

This looks beautiful , really loose , slight colored mixture .

If it looks a little bit broken , don't worry , it's all gonna come together .

Once we add the flour as long as it's homogenous , you're in the right .

We're gonna mix also on lowest speed .

You do not wanna overmix cake better .

That will get you in trouble .

Just Sprinkle it in .

Let it mix a bit and then add in a third of the buttermilk repeat .

We're gonna mix this until it's almost combined .

I do not want to see it fully mixed in because we're going to finish the cake batter off by hand right now .

There's a lot of chunks of flour , probably some butter hanging out here or there .

But we're gonna use our spatula and bring this all together .

If you over mix your cake batter , it'll look perfect when it comes out of the oven .

But as soon as it cools down , it'll contract , it'll be kind of gummy and tough and just not melt in your mouth .

Amazing , you do not want to develop the gluten .

This is ready to go into our pans .

So let's get those out .

You should have just about 600 g of cake batter per pan .

So you can use a scale or eyeball it either way I love using my scale .

I'm only mentioning it because I actually get a lot of questions on how many grams of cake batter per pan .

So that's the answer .

Give your pans a quick tap just to get any big air bubbles out and you can also tap the sides to help them level out and then they go into the oven at 3 50 .

But I'm gonna use cake strips because I like my layers to be perfectly flat with no trimming because that's wasted cake 3 50 for about 30 minutes while my cake was cooling .

I whipped up a batch of my simple vanilla buttercream .

Click up here for that recipe .

It is delicious and so easy .

Right before you use any butter cream , just use your spatula to press any air bubbles out .

So it decorates up nice and smooth .

Transfer your frosting into a piping bag and let's get to work .

I'm working directly on a cake plate .

Just add one dot of butter cream on the bottom place that cake layer in the center .

We're gonna cover this with a generous layer of buttercream frosting .

Give it a quick smooth just to even it out .

Pop that second layer on .

Sometimes you want to do a crumb coat because cakes can be crummy but you don't really need to .

So I'll show you all you want to do is cover the cake in a one layer of butter cream and then you can smooth it out .

It's gonna look perfect .

The key is really for the cake to be cool .

Use an offset spatula and just smooth the top of the cake out , smooth the side .

This cake actually looks fine to me , but I'm gonna finish it off with a really easy spiral pattern .

All you need is a rounded tip spatula or any implement and a cake turntable .

If you have one otherwise smooth it out or swop it up .

Let's finish this off with a Sprinkle of sprinkles to the Sprinkle drawer .

Confetti sprinkles are one of my favorite things .

Just a few on the edge is all you need for a lot of cheer .

This is Brian's mom's birthday cake .

It's her birthday today .

She deserves all the treats .

She's really wonderful .

So I hope she likes it if you like this video .

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Happy birthday grandma .

Should we take a bite ?

Ok , let's take a bite .

Hm .

How does it taste ?

Oh , yeah .