One Bowl Vanilla Cake Recipe from Scratch
This one bowl vanilla cake recipe is a simple, easy and effortless recipe and ideal when you need a quick and easy cake. It’s baked from scratch and taste delicious on its own. Works as a great tea time treat, frost it for a quick dessert or decorate to create a celebration cake. Add flavor or fillings to create more variations of this classic.
Baking a cake from Scratch
Yes, this is one more addition to my baking from scratch series. By now you know I’m on a mission to get everyone to bake from scratch not just because it’s always better but because it’s so EASY!!
Here’s more of my ONE BOWL RECIPES for you. This is a vanilla and it’s pretty much the basic formula that works every single time.
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The sweet success of One bowl Recipes.
I say this in every one bowl recipe that I share with you. Yet, I’ll say it again. The key success of baking a one bowl recipe is the temperature of all your ingredients. All your ingredients must be at room temperature. Butter must be soft room temperature not stiff. We spoke more about this in our One Bowl Coconut Cake RecipeÂ
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Let’s talk ingredients and substitutes (Save/Pin)
- All-Purpose flour – this is a simple recipe and works really well with regular pain flour or all-purpose. No need to go looking for cake flour or pastry flour.
- Butter – this is a butter based cake and is absolutely delicious. You can also substitute with margarine in equal amounts as well. If you want, you can use about 225 grams of vegetable shortening instead of 200 grams butter.
- Sugar – since this is a one bowl recipe, you want to use a fine grain sugar that will cream into the butter easily.
- Eggs – You do need to use eggs in the recipe. If you can’t use eggs you can use my eggless vanilla cake recipe instead.
- Vanilla – I really like to use pure vanilla bean paste for my vanilla cakes. You can use store bought of homemade vanilla extract, bean paste or even substitute the sugar with vanilla sugar.
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Recipe – One Bowl Vanilla Cake Recipe (Save/Pin)
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IngredientsÂ
For the Cake
- Unsalted Butter – 170 grams (1 1/2 sticks)
- White granulated sugar – 200 grams (1 cup)
- Eggs- 3 large
- All-Purpose Flour – 220 grams (2 cups)
- Baking Powder – 1 1/2 Tsp
- Salt – 1/2 Tsp
- Milk – 60 ml (1/2 cup)
- Vanilla extract or Vanilla Bean Paste – 1 Tsp
For the Buttercream
- Unsalted Butter – 113 grams / 1 stick
- Milk or whipping cream – 1/4 cup
- Powder sugar/confectioners sugar – 2 cups
- Vanilla extract – 1/2 tsp
Method
For the Cake
- Preheat the oven to 160 C/ 320 F.
- Greece and line two or three 6 inch round baking pan.
- Measure all ingredient into a large bowl
- Mix well with a whisk until well incorporated and no lumps
- Pour into your prepared baking pans
- Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes on the center rack or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Once baked let cool in the pan for 5 minutes then on to a rack to cool completely
Quick Vanilla Buttercream
- Ensure butter is soft room temperature
- Place all ingredients in a bowl
- Use a whisk to whip until light and fluffy.
- Adjust consistency by adding a tsp or more of milk or cream
- Use a spatula to frost the cake
- Pipe any leftover frosting if desired.
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If you try my one bowl vanilla cake this time, next time I highly recommend you try my one bowl chocolate cake. You will enjoy it.Â
One Bowl Vanilla Cake Recipe
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Yield 12 servings
This one bowl vanilla cake recipe is a simple, easy and effortless recipe and ideal when you need a quick and easy cake. It's baked from scratch and taste delicious on its own. Works as a great tea time treat, frost it for a quick dessert or decorate to create a celebration cake. Add flavor or fillings to create more variations of this classic.
Ingredients
For the Cake
- Unsalted Butter - 170 grams (1 1/2 sticks)
- White granulated sugar - 200 grams (1 cup)
- Eggs- 3 large
- All-Purpose Flour - 220 grams (2 cups)
- Baking Powder - 1 1/2 Tsp
- Salt - 1/2 Tsp
- Milk - 60 ml (1/2 cup)
- Vanilla extract or Vanilla Bean Paste - 1 Tsp
Quick Vanilla Buttercream
- Unsalted Butter – 113 grams / 1 stick
- Milk or whipping cream – 1/4 cup
- Powder sugar/confectioners sugar – 2 cups
- Vanilla extract – 1/2 tsp
Instructions
For the Cake
- Preheat the oven to 160 C/ 320 F.
- Greece and line two or three 6 inch round baking pan.
- Measure all ingredient into a large bowl
- Mix well with a whisk until well incorporated and no lumps
- Pour into your prepared baking pans
- Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes on the center rack or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Once baked let cool in the pan for 5 minutes then on to a rack to cool completely
Quick Vanilla Buttercream
- Ensure butter is soft room temperatureÂ
- Place all ingredients in a bowlÂ
- Use a whisk to whip until light and fluffy.Â
- Adjust consistency by adding a tsp or more of milk or cream
- Use a spatula to frost the cakeÂ
- Pipe any leftover frosting if desired.Â
Courses Dessert
Cuisine American
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 78 g
Amount Per Serving | ||
|---|---|---|
Calories 295 | ||
% Daily Value | ||
Total Fat 15.6 g | 24% | |
Saturated Fat 9.5 g | 48% | |
Unsaturated Fat 5.5 g | ||
Trans Fat 0.6 g | ||
Cholesterol 74 mg | 25% | |
Sodium 94 mg | 4% | |
Total Carbohydrates 36.4 g | 12% | |
Dietary Fiber 0.4 g | 2% | |
Sugars 25.4 g | ||
Protein 3.1 g | 6% | |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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It’s interesting that the cake is baked at the lower temperature than 350F. I usually bake my cakes at 350 or 375F. I haven’t tried lowering the temperature? What does it do? Does it change the texture somehow? I think my oven would take longer than 30-40 minutes though. For some reason everything takes a lot longer to cook in my oven.
Julia.. almost all my cakes are baked at 160 C or 320 F – that way they do not bake too fast with a huge dome. Nor do the sides bake with a hard crust. Try it. Mine is a conventional fan assisted oven.
My grandson LOVES vanilla cake. I just might make this for his birthday. Adding some funfetti…he will love it for sure.
Oh that does work great too! I make that sometimes for the kids and they love it.
This looks like such a nice cake for Spring! I bet this would make a great cake for Mother’s Day 🙂
It definitely would be perfect for any celebration.
Yum! Sounds so simple, but I bet it is delicious! Good tip on the room temperature. I sometimes rush it when in a hurry and things are still cold and it does not turn out!
Thanks Melissa
Hi I want egg less vanilla cske