

So, what size do you choose? This is totally up to personal preference. 13x18 half sheet pan (with 1 inch sides).9x13 baking pan (with 2 inch tall sides).This recipe works as written in three different sizes: Make this vanilla sheet cake for your next birthday party, celebration, or family gathering. The whipped buttercream frosting is reader favorite recipe - it's easy to make and has a classic sweet vanilla flavor! This vanilla cake turns out moist, fluffy, and tender. Make this cake in a 9x13 sheet pan, 13x18 sheet pan, or as a 9-inch two layer cake! Instructions for each are included in the recipe card. This cake can be made, as written, in three pan sizes. Topped with my favorite whipped buttercream frosting, this recipe can be made in three different pan sizes - even as a layer cake! It makes the perfect classic birthday cake.Īfter many reader requests, I have finally turned my vanilla cupcake recipe into a full-sized cake! This cake recipe is perfect for birthdays and celebrations, and is made with simple ingredients. I don’t use a whisk, as that creates too much air, and can be quite faffy – but if you have just a handheld mixer, then the whisk attachments for those are fine.Vanilla sheet cake is a classic yellow cake recipe that's tender, fluffy, and easy to make at home. I personally use my Kitchenaid mixer with the scraper paddle attachment for a majority of my baking – and all my cake mixes and buttercreams. Only use unsalted butter for the buttercream – otherwise it can split or taste horrible! Either work absolutely fantastically! However, for the buttercream, you must NOT use Stork. I usually use room temperature unsalted butter (the kind you get in foil), or Stork for cake sponges. If the butter is too cold for the cake, it can make the cake mixture a little lumpy. I personally switch between the all in one method, and the beating sugar and butter first method – but in general, I find the beating the sugar and butter together method is better for the most. If you know your oven is at the right temperature – just make sure you mix it correctly. I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve heard (this could be incorrect), that the ovens on The Great British Bake off are tested each day before the contestants start by baking a Victoria sponge – as it’s the most classic and scientifically easy bake! If the bake doesn’t bake correctly, but you know its weighed and mixed correctly, then usually it means it’s the oven. There are obviously other factors that are involved with getting the perfect cake – but really the ratio, how you mix it, and the oven being the correct temperature is so important! I use a Fan oven, so I bake my cake at 160 degrees! As my oven is new, it helps so much, but with other ovens I have used an oven thermometer to make sure my oven is correct before baking – as ovens can be drastically out! It doesn’t really matter whether you use a two egg recipe, three egg, four egg etc… as long as the ratios are equal. It only really takes four ingredients to make something DELICIOUS, but you have to get it right. I figured doing a vanilla recipe would fit with the system and alternating between the two flavours! Its all in the scienceīut anyway… this is basically the most simple yet most scientific of cakes.
#Vanilla cake recipe easy series
My first part of the back to basics series was my triple chocolate brownies, followed by my no-bake vanilla cheesecake, and then thirdly the chocolate cake.

I do have a Victoria sponge recipe on my blog already, but this a two layer beauty and potentially explained in a much better way. Okay, so back to basics has potentially gone a little bit too basic now, with a vanilla cake. This beauty is a two layer vanilla sponge cake, with vanilla buttercream frosting, and one of my favourite jam flavours… strawberry!

I thought that I would go for an absolute classic for my fourth instalment, a vanilla cake. As much as I hope that all my recipes are simple and doable by anyone of any baking ability, I know that some are not! Or, some people do just want to learn the basics – and I want to help with that! Vanilla cake Please see my disclosure for more details!* A delicious two layer vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and strawberry jam!īack in 2018, I thought I would start a new series on my blog – ‘back to basics’.
