Ultimate Vanilla Cake Recipe

This best vanilla cake recipe has been years in the making
While a yellow cake or a white cake can be the same as a vanilla cake, my best vanilla cake recipe is differentiated by the fact that it has a strong vanilla flavor – it has real vanilla beans in the batter and gobs of vanilla extract. It tastes like the very best vanilla bean ice cream in cake format!When I posted the Best Vanilla Cupcake Recipe, I was asked about converting the Best Vanilla Cupcake into the Ultimate Best Vanilla Cake recipe at least twice a month.

That post has over 400 comments, most of them talking about how it’s one of the best vanilla cupcake recipes ever.  It’s definitely my favorite vanilla cupcake recipe and I’ve used it as a base recipe for countless other cupcake recipes.

So, of course, readers always want to know how much cake the recipe would make and if anything would need to be changed about the recipe when converting it to the Ultimate Best Vanilla Cake recipe.  Best Vanilla Cake Recipe
This is the best vanilla cake you will ever have!

 Course Dessert
 Cuisine American
 Keyword cake, vanilla, vanilla cake
 Prep Time 15 minutes
 Cook Time 18 minutes
 Total Time 29 minutes
 Servings 16 servings
 Calories 180 kcal
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Ingredients

1 cup granulated sugar
1 vanilla bean
1 3/4 cups cake flour, not self-rising
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup unsalted butter  room temperature
2 large eggs room temperature
1/3 cup full-fat sour cream
1/4 cup canola oil you can also use vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract use pure, not imitation
2/3 cup whole milk
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Instructions

 Preheat oven to 350 F (175 C).
 In a small bowl, combine sugar and seeds from the vanilla bean. (For those of you who are new to using vanilla beans, check out this video to learn how to get the seeds out of the bean.)
 Using the back of a spoon, move around the bowl and apply pressure to break up any clumps of seeds and to better infuse the vanilla flavor into the sugar. Set aside.
 In a medium-sized mixing bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, mix together cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
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