Increase the speed of the mixer to high and continue to mix for another 2 minutes. Slow the speed of the mixer to low and add the eggs one at a time. Scrape the sides and the bottom of the bowl as needed. Using a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar together on high speed for approximately 3 minutes. In a medium bowl, whisk the dry ingredients together, the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda, and set aside. I highly recommend this step for great success. These will ensure a flat well-baked cake. Wrap Bake Even Strips after soaking in the water around the pan (see link in post). If you want to make things more elaborate, just up the amount of icing you are making. The recipe provides enough icing to do the simple decorations we have done. We just showed you a simple application for additional icing and sprinkles. The cake is a blank canvas for your creations. Otherwise, I find I have wasted money on unsalted butter with any of the leftovers I have as I then don’t tend to use it.ĭecorate it as you like if it is a birthday cake. I have tried cake flour but don’t like the results compared to using all-purpose flour it will give you a completely different cake, I find.įor baking, I have to say I don’t use unsalted butter I find that for most recipes, I just cut back on the salt, and it is perfect. They also say that cake flour will give a moister cake. Another ingredient that makes your cake moist is adding oil, and for this cake, I used canola oil. It gives a great texture to the cake and keeps it moist too. I have always added something like buttermilk or sour cream to my cakes and bundts. Sprinkles always make the cake fun and festive and can be for any season also. Fresh berries in the summer are always lovely, or a raspberry sauce can bring a vanilla cake to another whole level. Make it as fun as you would like for whatever occasion you are making it for. You’ll go back for seconds for sure.ĭo you have a favorite vanilla cake recipe you’d like to share? I’d love to hear about it.Simple ingredients make up this gorgeous layered cake. Layers of vanilla cake with luscious white chocolate frosting. The summer fruit salad looks (and tastes) lovey but you can use whatever topping you please.ĭon’t be fooled by this pure, white, innocent looking cake – it’s rich, decadent and more-ish. This cake is perfect when you need an easy, big, delicious vanilla cake to feed the masses. With this recipe a basic single-layer vanilla cake is made a little bit fancier with the use of a pretty bundt cake pan. With layers of vanilla cake, strawberry cream cheese frosting and six cups of fresh strawberries, this gorgeous cake tastes as good as it looks.Īn easy Vanilla Bundt Cake recipe. Vanilla Cake with Strawberry Cream Frosting I tend to add a little more vanilla than the recipe calls for but that’s because I like a stronger vanilla flavour – adjust to your own preferences. Just divine.Ī good basic vanilla cake recipe to master. It’s smothered in a gorgeous creamy whipped vanilla bean butter frosting. Fluffy Vanilla Cake with Whipped Vanilla Bean FrostingĪs the name suggests, this is the lightest fluffiest vanilla cake recipe you can possibly imagine. Whether you prefer vanilla essence, extract, paste, powder or bean, I hope you find a vanilla cake recipe here to delight you. Here are a few of my best vanilla cake recipe recommendations. If you are substituting vanilla bean for vanilla extract, I usually use about half a bean per teaspoon of vanilla essence required, sometimes more for a stronger vanilla flavour. Substituting vanilla bean for vanilla essence If those pods at the back of your cupboard are stiff, brittle and have lost their scent, they’re too old. Vanilla bean pods last for about two years. Again buy a good brand like Nielsen-Massey. I also recommend using vanilla bean paste as an easy (and slightly cheaper) alternative to vanilla bean pods. Give your bottle a shake if it gets a bit cloudy – that’s perfectly normal and won’t affect your baking. Good quality vanilla extract will last about three years. The Nielsen-Massey brand has a bit of a cult following (well deserved). You can find good quality vanilla extract in gourmet food suppliers or high end grocers. You will absolutely notice the difference. Your baked goods will have a smoother, deeper, purer, vanilla flavour. Good quality vanilla is more expensive – but it’s worth it. Because of this, most supermarket vanilla pods and extracts are of mediocre quality – they want to keep the price down. Vanilla is the world’s second most expensive spice (with saffron the most expensive). So I’ve pulled together this list of a few of my favorites. I’m often asked what I think is the best vanilla cake recipe around.
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