The Best One Bowl Vanilla Cake

The Best One Bowl Vanilla Cake

Fave Food Recipes December 07, 2019
It's the best vanilla cake in a bowl. Well, in my opinion, it is. This easy vanilla cake recipe is so quick to mix, because you'll only use one bowl! AND it's a scratch cake that actually comes out moist, delicious and full of vanilla flavor.
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Ingredients

  • 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 1/2 tsp. 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter (room temperature) (2 sticks)
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (or canola oil)
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 cup sour cream (or plain yogurt)
  • 1/2 cup milk (use whole milk if you can get it)
  • 3 teaspoons vanilla extract (or vanilla pod paste if you can get it)
  • 1/4 tsp. Almond emulsion (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
  2. Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans and set aside.
  3. Adjust the butter and let it return to room temperature. It should come completely to room temperature. But don't melt it. (You can cut it into pieces on a plate and it will reach room temperature faster.)
  4. In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and whisk together.
  5. Add the pieces of butter to the dry mixture and mix with an electric mixer at medium speed until a sand-like texture is obtained.
  6. Add oil and eggs and mix over medium heat only until incorporated. It will be thick at this point and you will not have to continue mixing until it is smooth at this time.
  7. Add sour cream (or yogurt), milk and extracts and mix on medium speed only until incorporated.
  8. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then mix again until everything is incorporated.
  9. Do not over mix. (Mixing for several minutes is too long.) Mix until all the ingredients are well incorporated. The dough will be on the thick side.
  10. Pour into prepared saucepans and smooth. Bake at 325 degrees for about 45 to 50 min.
  11. Let cool on a wire rack, in the molds, for about 10-15 minutes, then turn the cakes over the racks and let cool completely before covering with buttercream or freezing the layers.
  12. The top of these cake layers will flatten as they cool.
This recipe adapted from this site
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