![]() How to make this easy vanilla cakeĪs with almost any baking recipe, take your ingredients out of the fridge a few hours before you start so that they come to room temperature. Also, I have a full post and video on making American Buttercream, so I will include that as link for you by clicking here.This is a rich, buttery, easy vanilla cake and it’s a great starting point for loads of flavours of fillings and frostings. This still made a very nice cake! But let’s see how it is to decorate with a thicker layer of frosting the next go around. So the next go round, I will go up on the amount of frosting I make. I had a little trouble smoothing the frosting how I wanted on the cold cake, and I think it’s because my decorative layer was too thin. To be honest, I think it actually needs more. Please note that this tiny cake uses a LOT of frosting. I used a food scale to divide my batter at about 330 grams per pan, but you can put about a cup in each pan and then even it out from there. We don’t need to add anymore vanilla, but the butter flavor really adds. Add the butter extract for flavoring instead of vanilla.Here are the big secrets about making the cake using my method: It varies due to climate and temperatures, so add in small additions. Add milk in 1 tablespoon increment until frosting is a spreadable consistency.Add sifted powdered sugar in two additions whipping thoroughly in between each addition.Add flavoring while butter is whipping.Whip the room temperature (67-68 degrees) butter until smooth.Once cool, remove cakes from pans and allow them to cool completely before decorating.Allow cakes to cool in pans on cooling racks for 10 minutes.If baking in a different pan, follow the instructions on the box. If baking 6″ pans, bake cakes 28-32 minutes or until done.Divide Cake batter evenly across prepared cake pans.The mix time is key to a successful box mix. Run mixer on medium for a full 2 minutes once everything is in.With mixer on low, add eggs one at a time making sure to combine each before adding the next.Mix buttermilk and oil until well combined.Make sure all ingredients are room temperature.How to make American Buttercream Frosting.For complete instructions, on decorating and finishing this cake, please see my story about how to finish this layer cake.įor today, let’s concentrate on getting perfect cakes using my best Vanilla Cake Mix recipe. It requires more frosting to frost that extra layer and to pipe on the cute details, but it’s so worth it. ![]() I used my version of American Buttercream frosting, but I sized up the batch. However, you will need to make a bigger batch of frosting. And there is just something about a cake with 3 layers that makes it a wee bit more special than the standard two layer variety. I’ve started making all my cakes this way.Īny recipe for two 8″ or 9″ layers can be distributed through three 6″ cake pans and bake beautifully. She went on and on and on about how producing 3 6″ layer cakes from one cake mix is an impossibility. I actually had a bit of a knock down, drag out argument in a facebook group with another baker over this. You can get three 6″ cakes from one box of cake mix if you carefully measure the batter into the pans. Here’s a big difference in the way I put this recipe together. You’ll have to check the recipe card to see what I used. And I used a “secret ingredient” that I think gives this version of a cake mix hack its punch. This version uses the oil and eggs in the quantity recommended on the box, but I mixed things more carefully. You might find your batter breaks from trying to put too much fat into the flour. ![]() It gets a little expensive, and packing that much fat into the same dry ingredient mixture can be a challenge. I wanted to try it out and see how it was, and the result is really good! But it uses an awful lot of butter, and quite a few eggs. I have a recipe for the same cake mix hack we see going around online and all over youtube. Just look at the beautiful baked cake it produces. This cake is very good and with only a few small tweaks, it’s off the charts, roll your eyes back in your head delicious. This mix is rated as one of the best cake mixes on the market, and it already includes pudding which is apparently a magic secret ingredient. This vanilla cake mix recipe relies on a mix from Betty Crocker. To bake a delicious cake, perfect for stacking and decorating, here’s where we start. The first step is in baking beautiful cake layers. But guess what? If you stick with me, I’ll show you how you, too, can make this beauty in your own home kitchen. That’s a 3 layer, beautifully frosted and decorated cake that is pretty enough to have come from any bakery. ![]()
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