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YELLOW LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition., Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , Spread frosting between layers and over the top and sides of cake.

LIGHT AND FLUFFY YELLOW CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and line two 9-inch round cake pans with parchment. Butter parchment, then flour pans, tapping out excess. Set aside.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside. Put butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; cream on medium-high speed until pale, 2 to 3 minutes. On medium speed, add eggs yolks one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla and mix, scraping down sides of bowl. On low speed, add the flour mixture in three batches, alternating with two batches of buttermilk. Fold in egg whites. Stir with a rubber spatula until the batter is evenly blended.
• Divide batter between pans. Smooth the top of each layer with a small offset spatula.
• Bake until a cake tester inserted into centers comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let cool in pans on wire racks, 20 minutes. Run a knife around edges of cakes to loosen. Invert cakes from pans. Peel off parchment from cakes. Reinvert and let cool completely on racks.

YELLOW LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• FOR CAKE:.
• Grease and flour two 9" round cake pans. Combine sugar, oil, water, eggs and cake mix in a large bowl. Add sour cream and mix thoroughly. Pour batter into the prepared cake pans. Back at 350 for 45-55 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out celan. Cool layers in pans on a wire rack for 5 minutes; remove from pans by inverting onto wire rack, and continue to cool.
• Makes one double layer cake.
• FOR FROSTING:.
• Cream butter well in a large bowl. Add cocoa and powdered sugar, mix at low speed and add milk. Beat until creamy. Place on cake layer on a plate and spread icing evenly over the top. Set the second layer on top of the first and spread icing on the sides and top of the cake.

ULTIMATE BASIC BIRTHDAY YELLOW CAKE (3 - LAYER)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Cut wax paper to fit the bottom of (3) 9 x 1 1/2-inch round pans. Spray the pans with cooking spray, place the wax paper in the pans and spray the paper.
• In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, mixing well.
• Measure the 1-1/4 cups of milk in a 2 cup measuring cup then add enough vegetable oil to bring the liquid up to 1-1/3 cups. (I did the math and figured out it is 1-1/4 cups milk + 4 teaspoons vegetable oil).
• Add the milk/vegetable oil mixture, butter and vanilla to the flour mixture and beat with an electric mixer on medium to medium-high speed for 2 minutes, scraping sides of bowl as needed.
• Add the eggs and continue beating an additional 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near center of cake comes out clean, or until cake springs back when touched lightly in the center.
• Cool cakes on wire racks for 15 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely.
• Frost as desired.

FLUFFY YELLOW LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease two 9-inch-wide by 2-inch-high round cake pans and line bottoms with parchment paper. Grease paper rounds, dust pans with flour, and knock out excess.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and 1 1/2 cups sugar together in large bowl.
• In 4-cup liquid measuring cup or medium bowl, whisk together melted butter, buttermilk, oil, vanilla, and yolks.
• In clean bowl of stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, beat egg whites at medium-high speed until foamy, about 30 seconds.
• With machine running, gradually add remaining 1/4 cup sugar; continue to beat until stiff peaks just form, 30 to 60 seconds (whites should hold peak but mixture should appear moist). Transfer to bowl and set aside.
• Add flour mixture to now-empty mixing bowl fitted with whisk attachment. With mixer running at low speed, gradually pour in butter mixture and mix until almost incorporated (a few streaks of dry flour will remain), about 15 seconds. Stop mixer and scrape whisk and sides of bowl. Return mixer to medium-low speed and beat until smooth and fully incorporated, 10 to 15 seconds.
• Stir 1/3 of whites into batter to lighten, then add remaining whites and gently fold into batter until no white streaks remain.
• Divide batter evenly between prepared cake pans. Lightly tap pans against counter 2 or 3 times to dislodge any large air bubbles.
• Bake until cake layers begin to pull away from sides of pans and toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, 20 to 22 minutes.
• Cool cakes in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes. Loosen cakes from sides of pans with small knife, then invert onto greased wire rack and peel off parchment. Invert cakes again and cool completely on rack, about 1 1/2 hours.

FLUFFY CLASSIC YELLOW CAKE

Steps:

• Prep: Preheat the oven to 350 F (177 C). Prepare two 9" (22 cm) round cake pans by greasing them and then adding some flour and tapping it around the pan to coat. Tap the excess flour out of the pan. Measure out all of your ingredients for each section of the recipe and keep each grouping together to help with the workflow of the recipe
• MIX THE DRY INGREDIENTS: Sift the dry ingredients into a large bowl and then whisk together to combine. Set aside.
• MIX THE WET INGREDIENTS: In a separate medium bowl, whisk together all of the wet ingredients and set aside.
• MAKE THE MERINGUE: In the bowl of a stand mixer fit with the whisk attachment or with a hand mixer, beat the egg whites on medium/high speed until they start forming medium peaks. With the mixer still running, slowly stream in the sugar and keep beating until you reach stiff peaks.
• COMBINE THE COMPONENTS: Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredient bowl and stir together with a rubber spatula. Once the dry ingredients are saturated, add about 1/2 cup of the egg whites into the mixture and stir it in completely to lighten the batter. Next add in 1/2 of the rest of the egg whites and gently fold them in being careful not to deflate them. Add in the rest of the egg whites and fold them in gently until completely combined.
• Bake the cake at 350 F (177 C) for 20-23 minutes until the cake is set and a cake tester comes out with moist crumbs. Allow the cake to cool completely before frosting.
• Store uneaten cake covered in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.

YELLOW LAYER CAKE 12 INCH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease two 12-inch x 1 1/2 inch cake pans, line bottoms with parchment paper grease bottom and flour entire pan.
• In a medium bowl lightly combine the yolks, 1/2 cup milk, and vanilla.
• In a large mixing bowl combine the dry ingredients and mix on low speed for 30 seconds to blend.
• Add the butter and remaining milk.
• Mix on low speed until the dry ingredients are moistened.
• Beat for 90 seconds at medium speed to develop cake structure.
• Stop mixer, scrape down the sides.
• Gradually add the egg/milk/vanilla mixture in 3 batches, beating 20 seconds after each addition.
• Stop mixer, scrape down the sides and give it a final mix by hand.
• Pour the batter in the prepared pans and smooth surface.
• (Pans will be half full.) Bake 40 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean and the cake springs back when pressed lightly in center.
• (The cakes should start to shrink from the sides of pans after taking them out of the oven.) Cool the cakes in the pans for 10 minutes, then invert onto a buttered rack.
• Reinvert cakes so that tops are right side up.
• Cool to room temperature and wrap tightly with plastic wrap.

YELLOW LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
• 2. Grease and flour or line two 9-inch round cake pans ( or 1 10-inch round 3-inch deep) with parchment paper. Set aside.
• 3. In an electric mixer with wire whisk attachment, beat egg whites until soft peaks. Set aside.
• 4. In an electric mixer on medium speed, cream the butter. Gradually add sugar and beat until light in color. Add vanilla. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after adding each one.
• 5. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture alternately with the milk. Begin and end with the flour mixture. Mix until batter is smooth.
• 6. Carefully fold the egg whites into the flour mixture.
• 7. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 25-30 mins (55-60 if using 10-inch pan) or until a tester comes out with a fine crumb. Remove pans from oven and place on a wire cooling rack. Cool cakes in pans for 5-10 minutes. Carefully remove cakes from the pans & continue to cool on wire racks. Remove and discard parchment paper before decorating.
• 8. When cool, frost as desired or wrap in foil then plastic wrap for up to two months.
• YIELD: TWO 9-INCH ROUND LAYERS OR ONE 10-INCH 3-INCH DEEP ROUND LAYER OR 24 CUPCAKES.
• SUBSTITUTIONS:.
• Cake Flour Substitute: 2 ½ Cups All-Purpose Flour minus 5 Tablespoons, and Sifted [2 ½ C - 5 TBSP].
• Butter Substitutes: 1 Cup Shortening Plus 2 Tablespoons Water [1 C + 2 TBSP].
• OR 1 Cup Applesauce or Fruit Puree.
• OR ¾ Cup Olive or Vegetable Oil.