Ingredients
- Vanilla Cake:
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 eggs
- Vanilla Buttercream:
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 3 1/2 cups icing sugar (confectioners sugar)
- 1 tsp vanilla
Preparation
Step 1
Vanilla Cake:
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare 2 - 8 inch cake pans. You can lightly butter or spray them. (I also line the bottom of my cake pans with a circle of wax paper. The cakes then easily slide out.)
In a bowl, using your mixer, beat the butter until it is soft and creamy.
Add in the eggs, one at a time and mix until smooth.
Add the vanilla and mix.
In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
Add the flour mix to the creamed butter mixture, alternating with the milk.
Beat until smooth.
Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans.
Bake for 35-40 minutes.
Cool before icing.
Vanilla Buttercream:
Sift the icing sugar (confectioners sugar). Set aside.
In a mixer, beat the butter until soft and fluffy.
Add the sifted icing sugar, and mix until smooth.
Add the vanilla and beat until smooth.