Eggless Vanilla Cake Recipe

This eggless vanilla cake recipe is moist with a soft crumb. It is made without condensed milk and tastes absolutely delicious. Great on its own with tea or dressed with frosting for an elegant celebration cake. It can also be used to carve as a novelty cake or tweaked to make many different flavors and combinations.

It's been a while since I perfected this eggless vanilla cake recipe for my customers. I love how moist and tender the crumb is, but mostly how easy it is to make. And the best part is, that I customize this same recipe to make many different flavors of a moist orange cake or lemon cake, etc. I will also share those with you in the near future.

Table of Content

• Why make this cake?
• Ingredients and substitutes
• Step by step instructions
• More vanilla cake recipes
• Frequently asked questions
• Troubleshooting
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• Printable Recipe

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Why make this cake?

• This cake is moist and soft. It has a firm texture, yet light and airy with a soft crumb
• It is perfect to fill and frost for a celebration cake. It can also be used to carve for sculpted or novelty cake. It can also be used as a tiered wedding cake, as well as covered with fondant
• Unlike most eggless cakes this one has no condensed milk. (I do have a recipe for Eggless Sponge Vanilla Cake using condensed milk too).
• The options for filling and frosting recipes that can complement this are endless.
• Today, I am using vanilla pastry cream, but you can use other fillings like eggless vanilla pastry cream,  strawberry filling, blueberry filling, mango mousse, chocolate mousse as long as you use a frosting dam!! You will find more than 30 buttercream frosting recipes to try. You can see my video tutorial on how to level, fill, and frost a cake.

Ingredients and substitutes

• All-Purpose Flour -  You can use all-purpose flour, plain flour, maida for this cake. Do not use cake flour. I find that cake flour tends to make the texture very crumbly.
• Oil - I find that oil works best to keep the cake moist and the texture just right. I have tried it with butter - it works, but oil gives me the best results in texture.
• Sugar - It is best to use fine-grain white sugar or caster sugar as it melts easily in the mixture. If you don't have fine-grain sugar, just pulse the sugar in the food processor to ensure it's fine and not too coarse.
• Yogurt - This is actually a substitute for eggs in the recipe, so do not substitute it with anything else. I used a plain store-bought natural yogurt. You can also use homemade yogurt.
• Water - You can substitute water with milk, orange juice or buttermilk, BUT do ensure that it's warm, not cold.

Step by step instructions

• Preheat the oven to 325°F/ 165°C/ Gas Mark 3
• Grease and line one 8-inch round baking pan or 2 x 6-inch round cake. You will need to double (2x) this recipe for 2 x 8-inch round cakes.
• Combine dry ingredients in one bowl - Flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
  Pro tip -in baking sugar is considered a wet not, dry ingredient because it melts when heated.

• Combine wet ingredients in another bowl - Yogurt, sugar, canola oil, and vanilla extract.
  Pro tip - use a whisk to ensure there are no lumps. If necessary whip the yogurt with a whisk first to remove lumps.
• Next, combine the wet and dry ingredients until smooth with no lumps.
  Pro tip- use a whisk to ensure you have no lumps but do not overmix as we do not want to activate the gluten in the flour.
• Finally, add warm water or milk and stir well to combine.
  Pro tip - this step must be immediately followed by baking so ensure the oven is well preheated at this time.

• Pour the batter into the baking pan or pans and immediately transfer to the preheated oven.
• Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then, invert onto a cooling rack and cool completely before decorating.
  Pro tip - the cake must be completely cold before frosting or the frosting will melt on warm cake.

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More vanilla cake recipes

• One bowl vanilla cake
• Light and fluffy vanilla cake
• Vanilla Cream cake using fresh cream in the batter
• White Wedding Cake Recipe
• See all vanilla cake recipes or see all layer cakes

Here I have stacked this vanilla cake with alternating layers of my eggless chocolate cake recipe with alternating layers of my Eggless Vanilla Pastry cream cake filling, and an eggless chocolate mousse filling.

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Frequently asked questions

Troubleshooting

• My cake became very hard?
  This cake must be baked at the right temperature and time. Overbaking or high heat will dry out the cake and make it hard.
• Cake became too dense?
  This cake uses no eggs, so it has less leavening. Which is why you must bake the cake soon after you add the hot milk. This helps the hot air in the oven get the best out of the baking powder and soda.
• The cake was raw in the center but cooked outside?
  • Sounds like the oven was too hot so the outside was ready but the inside still needed some time.
  • Always bake at the right baking time. Having said that, every oven works differently. So the baking times are just guidelines.
  • In the case of cakes, a skewer inserted in the center is a great indication. If your cakes often bake too quick or too slow compared to the time given it might be a good idea to check if your oven needs calibration.
  • An oven thermometer is a great little gadget to help keep the oven temperature in check. All you need to do then is adjust the temperature accordingly.

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