Cupcake Cafe Vanilla Cake

Name: Cupcake Cafe Vanilla Cake
Ingredients: 9 eggs, separated; 3/4 lb unsalted butter; 3 cups sugar; 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla; 3 cups pastry flour (can substitute 2/3 all-purpose flour and 1/3 cake flour); 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder; 3/4 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 1/2 cups buttermilk

9 ingredients

7 steps

Ingredients

9 eggs, separated
3/4 lb unsalted butter
3 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups pastry flour (can substitute 2/3 all-purpose flour and 1/3 cake flour)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups buttermilk

Directions

1

Butter or spray two 8 or 9 inch cake pans and line the bottom with parchment. Preheat the oven to 350.
2

Cream butter and sugar together; beat in yolks; add vanilla and set aside.
3

Sift dry ingredients together.
4

Beat egg whites to soft peaks.
5

Mix dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately (in three increments starting with the dry ingredients) into the egg/butter mixture - do not overbeat.
6

Fold in the egg whites.
7

Fill pans about 2/3 full and bake for about 35-40 minutes until a tester comes out clean - cakes should feel slightly springy when pressed in the middle.