You probably have all of the ingredients for this basic but delicious cake in your house at this very moment.
Prep Time10mins
Cook Time30mins
Total Time40mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: all in one bowl cake recipes, cake recipes for beginners, layer cake recipe
Servings: 12People
Calories: 271.1kcal
Author: Katie Workman
Ingredients
½cup(1 stick) unsalted butterat room temperature, plus more for greasing the pans
2cupsall-purpose flourplus more for flouring the pans
1 ½cupssugar
3large eggs
2teaspoonsbaking powder
½teaspoonkosher salt
1cupwhole milk
2teaspoonspure vanilla extract
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter two 8-inch round cake pans, then cut out rounds of parchment to fit into the bottoms of the pans and insert them. Butter the parchment, and then flour the bottoms and sides of all of the pans.
In a large bowl (an upright mixer if you have one...otherwise use an electric mixer), beat the butter and sugar together until well combined. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Beat in the baking powder, salt and flour until combined, then beat in the milk and vanilla, mixing until the batter is smooth.
Divide the batter evenly between the two pans, and bake for 25 to 32 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean. Cool the cakes in their pans on wire racks for 15 minutes, then turn the cakes out of the pans, and finish cooling them upright on the wire racks.