I love cakes!

Especially homemade

A mix for a perfect vanilla cake:

Ingredients for cake

• 3 and 2/3 cups (420g) cake flour (spoon & leveled)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 and 1/2 cups (345g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
• 2 cups (400g) granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs + 2 additional egg whites, at room temperature
• 1 Tablespoon pure vanilla extract (yes, Tbsp!)
• 1 and 1/2 cups (360ml) buttermilk, at room temperature

Vanilla Buttercream

• 1 and 1/2 cups (345g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
• 6 cups (720g) confectioners’ sugar
• 1/3 cup (80ml) whole milk or heavy cream
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

The first birthday cakes were rumoured to have come from Germany, where birthday cakes were made for children to celebrate their birthdays.
They weren’t the yummy, sweet, icing coated cakes we’re used to these days though. The cakes were much more like a bread and fairly rough in texture. We’ll take the soft, buttercream version please!

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