Grammy's Kitchen · Vanilla Cake · Birthday Cake Cookies
One of 51 vanilla cake recipes we measured
from sugarspunrun.com
3 cooks on sugarspunrun.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 51.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 77% | 88% |
| total sugar | 175% | 181% |
| egg | 13% | 54% |
| leavener | 1% | 3% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 0% | 86% |
| dairy | 31% | 84% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 227 g | 1 cup unsalted butter (softened) |
| 150 g | 3/4 cup granulated sugar |
| 50 g | 1 large egg + 1 large egg white |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon clear vanilla extract (may substitute regular vanilla extract) |
| 370 g | 3 1/4 cups cake flour |
| 8 g | 1 Tablespoon cornstarch |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon baking powder |
| 4 g | 3/4 teaspoon table salt |
| 57 g | 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter (softened ) |
| 113 g | 4 oz cream cheese (softened (use full-fat “brick-style” cream cheese) ) |
| 500 g | 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon clear vanilla extract (may substitute regular vanilla extract) |
| 1 g | 1/8 teaspoon salt |
| 1 batch confetti crumbs |
Method: 13 steps, published by sugarspunrun.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.