Description
A delicious white cake made with fresh scraped vanilla bean for a fantastic, flavorful cake. Great for birthdays, weddings, showers, etc.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
- 2 cups white sugar
- 5 large eggs
- 1 ¼ cups buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 8-inch round cake pans and line with parchment paper.
- Combine flour
- baking powder
- and salt in a bowl.
- Cream butter and vanilla bean scrapings together in a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer at medium-high speed for 3 minutes. Scrape the sides of the bowl. Add sugar to mixture slowly. Scrape the sides of the bowl. Add eggs
- 1 at a time
- beating until well blended.
- Mix buttermilk and vanilla extract together. Alternate adding flour mixture and buttermilk into butter mixture
- beating on low speed until combined. Scrape the sides of the bowl and beat for an additional 20 seconds. Pour batter evenly into the prepared pans.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cake is slightly brown on top
- coming away from the sides of the pan
- and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean
- 40 to 50 minutes. Let cool completely before frosting.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 55 mins
Servings: 12