Vanilla Butter Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and lightly flour three 8-inch round pans.
• Combine the buttermilk, eggs, vegetable oil and vanilla in a bowl or large measuring cup and whisk until smooth.
• Combine the sugar, cake flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in the bowl of your stand mixer. Whisk to combine the dry ingredients.
• Place the mixer bowl on the mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. With the mixer on low, begin adding chunks of softened butter and continue blending until the mixture is sandy and no visible chunks of butter remain. Add 1/4 of the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and blend on low to combine. Raise the mixer to medium-high speed and beat for 2 minutes, scraping the bowl and beater halfway through beating. Add half of the remaining liquid ingredients to the bowl, blend on low to combine and then scrape the bowl. Add the remaining liquid ingredients and continue to blend on the lowest speed for 2 minutes.
• Divide the batter into the prepared pans and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out with a few most crumbs stuck to it, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Cool the layers in their pans for 15 minutes, then turn them onto a cooling rack and carefully wrap them in plastic wrap while they cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Add one Tablespoon vinegar to a one cup measuring cup and fill with milk to measure one cup (that explains the almost one cup milk!).
• Grease and flour pans (9X13, 3=8″, 2=9″, or 1=10″).
• Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
• Mix the vanilla into the milk and set aside.
• Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together in a separate bowl.
• Add flour to butter/sugar/eggs in two parts, alternating with the milk mixture, beating well after each addition.
• Divide batter into prepared pans.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the center of cake comes out clean.
• Let cool in pans 10 minutes, then remove from pans and cool completely on wire rack.

Steps:

• Mix butter at medium speed until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time just until they are well blended.
• Add flour, baking powder and salt to butter mixture alternately with half & half. Begin and end with the flour mixture. Beat each addition at low speed just until blended.
• Mix in vanilla.
• Pour into a greased and floured 12 cup bundt pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for an hour or an hour and 10 minutes, until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes.
• Remove cake from pan and put on wire rack until cool, about 30 minutes.