Nancy's Vanilla Cake

I have been searching for a good vanilla cake recipe for about a year now and I have finally found one that I like! This cake has good flavor and has a fairly dense crumb.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Then use the paddle attachment on a stand mixer to cream together the sugar and butter for 2 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time.

Whisk together the cake flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, and salt. Measure out the milk and the vanilla in a measuring cup.

Alternate adding the dry and wet ingredients at a medium speed starting and ending with the dry ingredients. 

This batter measured to be about 6 - 6 & 1/2 cups of batter. 

Divide the batter evenly between two 9 inch cake pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes. 

Here is a 6 inch cake...

Look at that crumb!

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Nancy's Vanilla Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 cups SUGAR
• 2 sticks BUTTER, room temperature
• 4 LARGE EGGS, room temperature
• 1 & 1/2 cup CAKE FLOUR
• 1 & 1/4 cup ALL PURPOSE FLOUR
• 2 tsp BAKING POWDER
• 3/4 tsp SALT
• 1 cup WHOLE MILK, room temperature
• 1 tsp VANILLA EXTRACT

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Use the paddle attachment on a stand mixer to cream together the sugar and butter for 2 minutes.
3. Add the eggs one at a time. 
4. Whisk together the cake flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, and salt.
5. Measure out the milk and the vanilla in a measuring cup.
6. Alternate adding the dry and wet ingredients at a medium speed starting and ending with the dry ingredients. 
7. Divide the batter evenly between two 9 inch cake pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes. 

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I found this recipe on the following website: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nancy-fuller/vanilla-birthday-cake-with-chocolate-frosting.html