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Buttermilk yellow cake

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This is my basic yellow cake recipe. I use it for different types of cake as well, including strawberry, lemon, spice, tres leches, etc. I’ll include those variations below.

Buttermilk yellow cake

Ingredients

  • Buttermilk yellow cake

  • 1 cup butter

  • 2 cups sugar

  • 4 eggs, separated

  • 3 cups flour (AP flour but can substitute equal weight of pastry flour)

  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cream of tartar

  • 1 cup buttermilk

  • 1.5 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  1. Cream butter and sugar until light. Add egg yolks, one at a time until well incorporated. Sift dry ingredients. Add alternately with buttermilk/vanilla, starting and ending with dry. Mix only until smooth. Don’t over mix. Whip up the whites separately to firm peaks and fold into the batter. Bake in a 9×13 pan at 350′ for approximately 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
  2. Variations:
  3. I like to add buttermilk powder to the dry ingredients when substituting other liquids so I don’t lose the benefits of the buttermilk.
  4. For tres leches cake:
  5. Make cake as above. mix together one can evaporated milk, one can sweetened-condensed milk and 1 cup whole milk or goat milk and pour slowly over cake to soak in. *This recipe will only take 1/2 the milk. Either reserve the other half of the milk or make a double recipe
  6. Strawberry cake:
  7. In place of the buttermilk (1 cup), use 1 1/2 cups (12 oz) blended strawberries.
  8. banana cake:
  9. In place of the buttermilk (1 cup), use 1 1/2 cups (12 oz) blended bananas.
  10. Lemon cake:
  11. In place of the vanilla (1.5 tsp), use 2 tsp lemon extract.
  12. Spice cake:
  13. In place of buttermilk, use 1 1/2 cups apple sauce. In place of half the sugar, use 1/2 brown sugar. To dry ingredients, add 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 3/4 tsp nutmeg, 1/4 tsp cloves and 1/4 tsp ginger.