Name: Yellow Cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: 3 cups sifted all purpose flour; 1 tablespoon baking powder; ¾ teaspoon salt; ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, (at room temperature); 2 cups granulated white sugar; 4 large eggs; 1 cup whole milk; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Yellow Cake

I’ve been searching for a good Yellow Cake recipe for some time now, and this is it. I’ve finally found a keeper!

Yellow Cake Recipe

I’m one of those crazy people who is in love with every flavor of cake EXCEPT chocolate. Give me vanilla or white any day, I’ll seriously jump up and down for spice cake, lemon is luscious and red velvet is a major favorite. I feel the same way about yellow cake. It’s just simply flavored and buttery. Chocolate is just not so exciting to me.

Yellow Cake

The Best Chocolate Frosting for Yellow Cake:

Even though chocolate cake is not my favorite, chocolate frosting is another story. It’s kind of like topping vanilla ice cream with hot fudge- it just works brilliantly well. I have a smooth, velvety, rich and fabulous chocolate frosting recipe works nicely with yellow cake. So get on that and print it out if you haven’t already. You’ll want to have it on hand for this cake and for baking future baking of cakes and cupcakes because it’s that awesome.

Perfect Yellow Cake Recipe:

The yellow cake here is pretty major too. The texture is fluffy and perfect. And the flavor is spot-on. The two layers rise up nicely to the top of the pan, and they’ll rise up even and flat too if you use CAKE STRIPS, which I recommend to every single person I know. They WORK, and you will want to use them on every cake you bake.

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting

And there is my keeper-recipe Yellow Cake. I must say that it turned out exactly as I was hoping. It was quite delicious, and I would love to be able to share a slice with you! Since that’s not really possible, go forth and make this cake for the people in your life! You’ll make those people really happy… because everyone needs a little cake now and then.

5 from 1 vote

Yellow Cake

By RecipeGirl.com (adapted a little from Food and Wine magazine)

What a delicious cake!

Prep: 25

Cook: 30

Total: 55

Servings: 12 servings

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Ingredients

▢ 3 cups sifted all purpose flour
▢ 1 tablespoon baking powder
▢ ¾ teaspoon salt
▢ ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
▢ 2 cups granulated white sugar
▢ 4 large eggs
▢ 1 cup whole milk
▢ 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray two 9-inch round cake pans with nonstick baking spray (or grease and flour them). I like to line them with rounds of parchment- it helps with getting the cake out of the pan intact.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. In a larger bowl, use an electric mixer to cream the butter. Beat in the sugar and mix until fluffy, about 4 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Add the dry ingredients in two parts- mix in half of the dry ingredients, then half of the milk, then the rest of the dry ingredients, and then the rest of the milk + vanilla. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl as you are mixing to incorporate all of the ingredients.
Divide the batter between the two prepared cake pans. Bake for about 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool for 20 to 25 minutes, then run a knife along the edge of each pan and invert onto a rack to cool completely. Be sure to peel off the parchment paper and toss it!
Your cakes are ready to frost, or you can wrap them and keep them overnight until you are ready to frost your cake. I recommend using the Chocolate Frosting Recipe on this site for the Yellow Cake. It makes plenty of frosting for a two-layer cake.

Notes

Nutritional information is for cake only- not the frosting.

Nutrition

Serving: 1slice, Calories: 388kcal, Carbohydrates: 59g, Protein: 6g, Fat: 15g, Saturated Fat: 9g, Trans Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 96mg, Sodium: 181mg, Potassium: 190mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 35g, Vitamin A: 492IU, Calcium: 84mg, Iron: 2mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.