Easy and Delicious Vanilla Cake Recipe

Hi guys, I'm Sushmita Singh and on this post , I'm going to bring you what I like to call my Confetti Birthday Cake. Now, my Father's birthday was 9th September , I have never made a birthday cake for my father. So, what did I do 4 days ago ? Celebrated my father's birthday. With a birthday cake! And I figured I'd share this recipe with you because so many of you write me and send me e-mails saying 'Can you show me a birthday cake?'.

 Now, you know I don't make any sort of fancy cakes with fondant and all these cool characters, that's just not my style - I like really good food! And I love anything homemade. So this is a gorgeous fluffy, light vanilla cake with a gorgeous buttercream, so it is absolutely amazing. Let me take you over the ingredients so we can get started! You'll need all purpose flour, baking powder,salt, granulated sugar, egg whites, unsalted butter, softened at room temperature, a littlebit of sour cream, some whole milk, vanilla extract and I've got some jimmies! 

INGREDIENTS :-

• Purpose flour
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Granulated sugar
• Egg whites
• Unsalted butters Softened at room temperature 
• Littlebit of sour cream
• Whole milk
• Vanilla extract 

Now, this is what's going to go all the way through my batter, and it's going to be so good! Now, comment below and let me know what your childhood birthday cake was, now to be completely honest with you, when I was a child, I didn't want a birthday cake, I wanted pasties . That was the birthday cake of choice! But I would love to know from you - And I would love to know when your birthday month and what the cake that you would like to have. 

Today I will try to share my recipe in interesting way. So, I thought that might be fun! 

METHOD :-

• I'm just taking my egg whites and I'm going to use my standing mixer to whip these up. 
• I'm going to whip these until they've got stiff peaks. It should take a couple minutes. Beautiful!. 
• Now, I don't need the egg whites at this very moment, I actually need them later on in the recipe. 
• If I need to whip the egg whites and do it in the standing mixer, I might as well get them done and out of the way because you can't whip egg whites in a dirty bowl. 
• So now that that's done - and don't worry if a little bit remains, that's totally fine!. 
• Add softened butter to it and sugar. I'm going to get these nice and creamy and fluffy. My excitement is making me stutter, but this is going to be gorgeous,. 
• Now you've noticed we haven't added whole eggs, and that's because we want this to bea gorgeous white fluffy cake, it's absolutely delicious - really a treat,. 
• I'm just going to whisk this up, or mix it until it's nice and fluffy. That's looking good. 
• Add a splash of vanilla extract and at this point. 
• I'm also going to add my sour and not adding very much but this little tiny bit is going to go a long way and give you the fluffiest cake ever. 
• But if you don't have it, you can use yogurt,if you don't have yogurt, just use a little extra milk - it'll be totally fine. 
• So, raise this up, get these combined, and In the meantime, I am just going to take a quick second to mix together my flour, baking powder and salt.
•  You don't have to do it perfectly. Just want them to be pretty much mixed together. 
• Now, I"m going to add half of my flour. And half of my milk. Bring this back up, mix it together and then you add the rest of your flour, the rest of your milk and your batter is almost done!. 
• But,totally forgot to tell you that the first thing you want to do, of course, is get your oven preheated to 350F, get a couple of 9 inch baking pans, or cake pans, whatever you call them, line them with parchment paper and spray them well with some non-stick spray. 
• Those are ready and waiting. And now what I'm doing, I'm just taking my spatula, and I like to mix everything from the bottom, up. 
• And now, I'm going to take my egg whites - I'll do half at a time - and mix that in there, this is going to be just beautiful and it's going to help the cake rise and it's just stunning!. 
• Once it's all mixed, you want to divide the batter evenly, or as even as you can manage among your baking pans, or your cake pans. Okay, now these are going to go into my pre heated oven at 350F for about 30-35 minutes or until they're fully cooked. 
• My cakes baked for about 30 minutes and I've let them cool completely on a wire rack. 
• What I did, I put it on a cake stand and then I just put a few pieces of parchment paper around so that the cake stand itself doesn't get dirty once i go ahead and frost it. 

We're going to make a really simple butter cream and it really couldn't be easier. The first thing you're going to do is you need to start with butter that's been softened at room temperature - that is so, so crucial!. You absolutely need it to be at the proper stage. So what I have here is a good amount of butter,because again, this is butter cream and I'm making this in my standing mixer just because it's easier and needs to whisk for a long time, so just going to pop that in. Just going to add some vanilla extract - abouta tablespoon of it - because it is a vanilla buttercream after all. And I'm just going to whisk this up until just the butter starts, you know, gets going, and then i have some confectioner's sugar here and some whole milk. Just going to wait for this to kind of get head start and then we'll add in the sugar. Okay, now what I also have here that I failed to mention is just a small pinch of salt, and because this is all confectioner's sugar- which I know is a lot - but it is a butter cream, you just need to add a little salt to cut all the sweetness. It really does - it's a great balance. I'm just going to add my sugar, trying to not get all over the place, and I think I did pretty well. 

Let's see. Yeah. Pretty well. And just a splash of milk, only a couple tablespoons of milk. And now I'm going to get this up and get it going and mixing, and this could take up to ten minutes, I mean buttercream goes from messy, to crumbly, to perfection, so you just need to have patience and the great thing is you're not doing it by hand, you're using a standing mixer, so it makes life a lot easier. Just going to let that continue to go, go,go until it's the perfect consistency . That is perfection! It took a good four minutes of mixing.  And yes, again, it's really rich but I promise you this is a once in a while treat - it's like a wedding cake, you don't eat it very often and most of the time, frostings that are used on wedding cakes are buttercream. So I'm just going to mix - I get like immense pleasure when it comes to buttercream because if you make buttercream at home, then you know the consistency that you are looking for, so there's just something about it that just gives me great pleasure, so this is completely done. 

• And now we'll get going on frosting. I'm just going to take a little bit of it,not too much, about I'd say a third. And I'm just using an off set spatula here,a flat spatula to just smear this. 
• You don't have to go all the way to the edge, although it doesn't matter because we are going to cover the whole thing. Mmm, I can't wait to have a slice of this,you have no idea! If your birthday is in the Summer, jealous. Very jealous. 
• Take the remaining frosting. Trying to get it all out of the cake. But, I'm just going to frost this, I'm draping down and then this is where I love my rotating cake stand, and this is why, you put parchment down because if that were to happen, especially if you are anything like me, you are a complete and total mess when you frost cakes - it helps a lot.
•  And then I just like to take the top and just do little swirls. 
• Clearly I'm not a master at decorating cakes, it is just my way of making it look fancy. It's terrible, I know. Decorating cakes is not my forte - okay? Or my mother's. 

This is why the parchment is so beautiful,because now, you get to take the parchment off and you have no mess on your hands. Don't ya love when that happens? No mess, and then you look like a pro and then you don't tell your friends that this is the trick, that way they're like 'How did you  manage to do that' and you're like 'I'm that good! I know!'. And then I'm going to take additional jimmies,because I want everyone to see that this is a confetti birthday cake. And I'm going to put them all over the top. And I love it. I really do like my pastiera. That's where it's at! Mmm hmm.. It's such a beautifully flavored cake, that buttercream is like that wedding frosting that we all know and love and we get to eat like may be once a  year. To get more recipe,subscribe to my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed spending time with me, let me know what your favorite birthday cake is because I would love to recreate it for your special day. Thank you for visiting and I'll see you soon!