Vanilla Butter Cake

5 from 1 vote

This incredible secret ingredient vanilla birthday cake from the Mermaid Bakery is light and airy; a homemade cake with the texture of a store-bought cake!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword butter cake, vanilla cake

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Total Time 35

Servings servings

Calories 601kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter 2 sticks, softened
2 cups white granulated sugar
4 large eggs at room temperature
1 tablespoon white vinegar at room temperature
1 cup milk at room temperature (add vinegar to cup and top with milk)
1 teaspoon Creme bouquet or 1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 ¾ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
¾ teaspoon salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, put oven rack into center of oven.
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 Creme bouquet or Vanilla into the milk.
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.

Notes

NOTE: I use this Whipped Cream Buttercream Frosting with this recipe!

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