Super Soft Vanilla Cake Recipe

[00:00]: okay it has taken me months to perfect a vanilla cake recipe and I finally done it introducing to

[00:06]: you my new super soft vanilla cake that is packed with flavor while still being fluffy and light so

[00:13]: to start off you want to preheat your oven to 165 degrees Celsius with the fan on and grease

[00:19]: or line two eight inch cake tins I'm using some homemade cake release today to grease my tins

[00:24]: which I absolutely love and it saves so much time once that's done to set your cake tins aside

[00:30]: and in a bowl you want to sift together your dry ingredients so I've got two and a quarter cups of

[00:35]: all-purpose flour a quarter cup of corn flour also known as cornstarch half a teaspoon of baking soda

[00:41]: one teaspoon of baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt and then using a whisk just mix that all

[00:48]: together until well combined you can also use cake flour in replacement of the all-purpose flour and

[00:54]: cornstarch okay set that aside for later and in a large bowl you want to add in half a cup or a

[00:59]: 113 grams of room temperature unsalted butter half a cup of unflavored vegetable oil and one

[01:07]: and two thirds of a cup of white granulated sugar and then using a hand or stand mixer

[01:12]: on a medium high speed cream that together for about two minutes until it's light and fluffy

[01:22]: so once your mixture looks like this the next thing that you want to do is

[01:26]: turn your mixer to a low to medium speed and crack in the three eggs one by one

[01:31]: mixing well in between each addition so about kind of 10 to 15 seconds in between each egg

[01:40]: now once all your eggs are mixed in just give your bowl a little scrape down just

[01:44]: to make sure everything's mixing well then you want to add in one

[01:47]: and a quarter tablespoons of vanilla one teaspoon of white vinegar and a

[01:52]: half cup of Buttermilk and then mix that in until well combined

[01:59]: now what you want to do is set your mixer aside and the rest of the mixing is going to be

[02:04]: done by hand so add in half of your pre-mixed dry ingredients from earlier and gently fold that in

[02:10]: until just combined it's okay if there's kind of a few little bits of flour showing through

[02:14]: then you want to add in a further one cup of Buttermilk and gently fold that in until just

[02:19]: combined and then finish off by folding in the remaining dry ingredients until just combined

[02:25]: you don't want to over mix the batter so only mix until all the flour has disappeared and then stop

[02:30]: there so this is what your batter should look like and now the last step is to evenly distribute this

[02:35]: into our two pre-prepared cake tins you can totally use a scale to weigh your cake tins

[02:40]: just to make sure that you know they're evenly distributed if you're not comfortable with

[02:43]: eyeballing it now I'm just flattening the tops of my cake layers and then giving my cake tins

[02:49]: a little bang just to get rid of any large air bubbles and now these are going to go into the

[02:54]: oven for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean so my cake layers are done now they've

[02:59]: been Cooling in the pans for about 15 minutes and now I'm just running a thin knife along the edges

[03:05]: of the pan to release the cakes from the cake tins and then turning them out onto a wire rack

[03:10]: to completely cool oh my God these smell so good and just look at how soft these cake layers are

[03:16]: now while our cake layers are cooling let's make a super easy buttercream so to my stand mixer I'm

[03:23]: adding in one and a half cups or 340 grams of room temperature unsalted butter three cups of icing

[03:30]: sugar one and a half teaspoons of vanilla and one and a half tablespoons of milk you can also use a

[03:37]: hand mixer for this but this frosting does require a little bit of mixing so I'm going with the easy

[03:42]: option and then using my paddle attachment I'm first mixing everything together on the lowest

[03:47]: speed just so that my icing sugar doesn't fly everywhere and then once things are kind of

[03:52]: together I'm turning up the speed to a medium high and then letting this mix for a full 10

[03:57]: minutes scraping down the bowl about halfway just to make sure everything's mixing well by letting

[04:03]: this mix it's going to lighten up your buttercream in both taste and texture and help get rid of some

[04:08]: of that grittiness that American buttercream kind of usually has because of the icing sugar

[04:14]: and that is it a super easy not too sweet American buttercream that has a gorgeous

[04:19]: smooth texture to it okay now we are on to the fun part which is the decorating so to start off

[04:25]: I'm trimming off the little brown bits around my cake layers purely for aesthetic purposes

[04:30]: so I can have a nice thumbnail so if you don't want to do this step you can totally skip it

[04:35]: next I'm placing my first cake layer straight onto my cake stand and topping it with a generous

[04:42]: amount of frosting and then smoothing that out with my offset spatula then my second cake layer

[04:47]: goes on top of that and again I'm just placing some buttercream on the top and then smoothing

[04:52]: it out with my offset spatula now I'm just going to use any excess frosting on the sides to cover

[04:57]: the entire cake in a thin layer of frosting which is what we call a crumb coat this is going to trap

[05:03]: all the crumbs before we place our final coat of frosting on top okay that is my crumb coat

[05:09]: done and now this is going to go into the fridge for 30 minutes to firm up once the

[05:13]: crumb coat is firm I'm applying another layer of frosting all around the cake starting from

[05:17]: the top and then moving to the sides and then I'm using my cake scraper to scrape the edges so that

[05:23]: they're nice and smooth now to get some sharp edges on the top I'm just slowly bringing my

[05:27]: offset spatula into the middle of the cake as it catches that top lip of frosting around the edges

[05:34]: now I'm just going to do some really simple piping so I'm just filling a Piping Bag

[05:42]: with a 1M star tip on it and then I'm just doing some little swirls on the top of my cake [Music]

[05:51]: and that is it my vanilla cake is all done this cake is honestly so incredibly moist and soft

[05:58]: it has such a tender crumb to it and because it's vanilla you can literally pair it with any flavor

[06:04]: frosting or filling mmm so so soft that is a good vanilla cake if you try out this recipe don't

[06:13]: forget to leave a review on my blog I love hearing from you guys and I'll see you in the next video

1 / 2

Click to reveal answer

💡 Explanation

Unlock Interactive Flashcards

🚀 Sign Up to Create FlashcardsFree to get started • No credit card required

JavaScript Fundamentals Quiz

Test your knowledge of JavaScript basics

180s

Question 2 of 5

Question 2

Which method is used to add an element to the end of an array?

A. push()

B. add()

C. append()

D. insert()

Unlock Interactive Quizzes

Create quizzes from your content in one clickUsers get instant feedback. You get clear accuracy, time, strength & weakness insights and VEGA's next-step recommendations.

🎯 Sign Up for Free to Create Quizzes

✓ $10 free AI credit on signup✓ No credit card required