Grammy's Kitchen · Vanilla Cake · Birthday Cake
One of 51 vanilla cake recipes we measured
It ranks #2 of 51 for richness among the vanilla cake recipes we compared. 16 cooks on www.recipetineats.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 | 95% | 88% |
| total sugar | 229% | 181% |
| egg | 23% | 54% |
| leavener | 4% | 3% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 226% | 86% |
| dairy | 330% | 84% |
| chocolate | 92% | 0% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 240 g | 2 cups plain / all purpose flour ((Note 1)) |
| 10 g | 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder |
| 2 g | 1/4 tsp cooking salt (kosher salt) ((halve for table salt, +50% for flakes)) |
| 55 g | 4 large eggs ((50 - 55g / 2 oz each), at room temp (Note 3)) |
| 300 g | 1 1/2 cups caster / superfine sugar ((granulated/regular ok too, Note 2)) |
| 115 g | 115g / 1/2 cup unsalted butter (, cut into 1.5cm / 1/2” cubes (or so)) |
| 244 g | 1 cup milk (, full fat (Note 5)) |
| 13 g | 3 tsp vanilla extract |
| 14 g | 3 tsp vegetable or canola oil (, or other plain flavoured oil (Note 6)) |
| 200 g | 200g / 7 oz dark chocolate chips or melts (semi-sweet chocolate chips) (, or chopped block (Note 7)) |
| 178 g | 3/4 cup thickened cream / heavy cream (, or other whipping cream 35 – 40% fat (Note 7)) |
| 21 g | 1/4 cup dutch processed cocoa powder ((no need to sift), or regular unsweetened cocoa powder (Note 8)) |
| 2 g | 1/4 tsp cooking salt / kosher salt ((halve for table salt, +50% for flakes)) |
| 100 g | 100g / 7 tbsp unsalted butter (, softened) |
| 250 g | 2 cups (250g) soft icing sugar / powdered sugar (, sifted (Note 9)) |
| 250 g | 250g / 8 oz Philadelphia cream cheese block (not tub) (, at room temperature (Note 10)) |
| 119 g | 1/2 cup thickened cream / heavy cream (, for whipping, fridge cold (Note 7)) |
Method: 24 steps, published by www.recipetineats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Hi Nagi, firstly thanks for all your wonderful recipes and your beautiful stories of Dozer. My question is, do you have a recipe for an alternative frosting please. Would like to use the base vanilla cake for my daughter's wedding cake but brown icing is a no” — a cook, 5.0★
“Hi! Ive been making this cake for years. Its either baking powder might be expired, you overmixed it or the whole milk was not that hot when you mixed it in. Check out her vanilla moist cake recipe there are notes she made there that helped me a lot and always” — a cook, 5.0★