This delicious White Cake Recipe hits the spot when you have a craving for cake! If you love Cake Recipes, I’ve got the 50 best for ya!
White Cake
I love a good white cake (some folks call this “plain cake” or “vanilla cake”. But sometimes I just want it for a snack and not make a layer cake. In those moments, this is my go-to recipe!
There are only 8 ingredients and it can be in front of you in just under an hour! Make note that this is made in an 8×8 pan.
What is the Frosting?
For the frosting, I used this Whipped Buttercream recipe and halved it. (cut the recipe in half)
Do I Have to Use Almond Extract?
You’ll notice that I listed almond extract as optional. I am a HUGE fan of almond extract in white cake and absolutely love the freshness that it adds to this delicate cake. If you would prefer to not use it, simply omit it from the recipe.
Do My Ingredients Need to Be Room Temperature?
Yup! It really does make a difference. (More info on that in my Best Yellow Cupcakes blog post) To quickly warm milk you can pop it in the microwave for 10 seconds. To warm eggs, just let them sit in a cup of warm water for about 5 minutes.
Check out my High Altitude Baking Tips if you are baking this at a higher altitude.
How to Serve White Cake
One thing I love about this cake is how easily adaptable it is. You can serve it with fresh fruit, a dusting a confectioners sugar, chocolate frosting, or even no frosting! You can add raspberry extract, peppermint extract, orange extract, or add some lemon zest and lemon juice. The possibilities are endless!
White Snack Cake
Ingredients
- ½ cup (113g) butter, softened
- 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
- ½ cup (123g) whole milk, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon pure almond extract, optional
- 1½ cups (180g) cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 4 large (120g or 4 ounces) egg whites, room temperature
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Prepare 8×8 square pan with butter and flour or baking spray.
- Beat butter at medium speed with a hand-held mixer until creamy, roughly 3-4 minutes.
- Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
- Stir together milk and vanilla. (If you are adding almond extract, add it here)
- Sift together flour and baking powder; add to butter mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition.
- Beat egg whites at medium speed until stiff peaks form; gently fold into batter. Pour batter into prepared pans.
- Bake at 350° for 35-38 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes.
- Optional: Cover with white frosting.
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I have been searching for THE homemade white cake recipe. This is it. Perfect. Thank you so much!!
Amanda, this cake “rocked”! When I try a new recipe, I make it exactly by the directions. I can always customize it next time. I wouldn’t change. I had to use APF as I didn’t have “cake flour” on hand. It came out great and the cake had the perfect density. I will definitely make this again.
I made this today, following your instructions exactly and the results were wonderful! The crumb and height I got with this lovely, moist cake was amazing. I live in Denver at high altitude and didn’t follow the advice for high altitude baking and it couldn’t have turned out any better! Thank you Amanda for sharing your recipe 😋
Absolutely delicious. Great moist texture.
This came out PERFECT!!