Basic Vanilla Cake Batter |
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Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 20 Minutes Servings: 1 |
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This basic vanilla cake batter is the perfect beginning to beautiful cakes, cupcakes, and petits fours. Ingredients:
2 cups sugar |
1 cup butter, softened |
3 large eggs |
1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
1/4 teaspoon almond extract |
3 cups cake flour |
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder |
1/4 teaspoon salt |
1 cup buttermilk |
Directions:
1. Beat sugar and butter at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy and fluffy (about 5 minutes). Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until yellow disappears after each addition. Beat in vanilla and almond extracts.
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl; add to sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at medium-low speed just until blended after each addition. (Batter will be thick.) Use immediately.
3. Ultimate Vanilla Cake Batter: Substitute 2 tsp. vanilla bean paste for vanilla extract. Proceed with recipe as directed.
4. Chocolate Cake Batter: Reduce cake flour to 2 cups. Proceed with recipe as directed in Step 1. Whisk 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa into flour mixture in Step 2; proceed with recipe as directed. Beat 1/3 cup hot water into batter just until smooth.
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