The Best Vanilla Cake Recipe

A classic vanilla cake recipe, made completely from scratch! Ditch the box mixes — you’ll love how easy, moist and fluffy this homemade vanilla cake is!

This vanilla cake recipe has been a long time coming.  The journey began with my pineapple upside-down cake and was continued with my marble cake recipe — if you recall it took me almost a dozen attempts to get the vanilla cake base of those recipes right.  A few more tweaks were still needed to make this a perfect standalone vanilla cake recipe, but, after a lot of wasted ingredients, we have arrived.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature (113g)
• ½ cup canola oil* (120ml)
• 1 1/2 cup sugar 300g
• 4 eggs room temperature preferred
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour (390g)
• 1 Tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cup buttermilk room temperature preferred (300ml)
• 1 batch Chocolate Frosting

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F (177C) and prepare two deep 8" round cake pans** by lining the bottoms with parchment paper and lightly greasing the sides. Set aside.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or in a large bowl using an electric mixer) cream together the butter, canola oil and sugar until creamy and well-combined.
3. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. Stir in vanilla extract.
5. In a separate, medium-sized bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
6. For full instructions : sugarspunrun.com

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