Today on The Stay At Home Chef I'm showing you how to make
The Most Amazing White Cake
You guys have loved my most amazing chocolate cake and have been
begging me for the most amazing white cake. I'm happy to report after many many
many many rounds of testing I finally have it the most amazing white cake
It's moist, has the perfect crumb, and it truly is the most amazing white cake
Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees and then butter three 9-inch round
cake pans and line the bottom with parchment paper. I have 1 cup of softened
salted butter here in my bowl and I'm going to add in 1 and 1/2 cups of
granulated sugar and then cream this together with a hand mixer. Creaming the
butter and sugar together is an important first step in making the most
amazing white cake. You want to make sure that butter and sugar ends up nice and
creamy. Then I'm going to pour in 2 teaspoons of almond extract and mix that
in as well. We use almond extract because it's clear. Vanilla extract is a nice
dark brown so if you added that in you wouldn't have that nice beautiful white cake
You end up with more of a yellow cake. Now we're going to set this aside
and put together our liquid and dry ingredients. I have 1 1/2 cups
of whole milk here in my liquid measuring cup and I'm going to add in
6 egg whites and whisk this together with a fork. Now once again this is because of
a color issue. If we were to add in egg yolks it would taint the batter yellow
and we want this to stay a nice white color. Next I have 3 1/2 cups
of cake flour here in my bowl. Cake flour is a little bit different it
has some cornstarch added in . I will give us a slightly better crumb on our
cake and to that we're going to add in 4 teaspoons of baking powder and
1/2 teaspoon of salt and give that a quick stir just to combine it. Now we're going
to start adding in our wet and dry ingredients to our butter mixture alternating them
and we'll start with the flour. I pour in about 1/3 of the flour mixture to start
Then we just mix this in until it's just combined. I should be pretty thick and
then we're gonna add in half of our milk mixture. You don't have to be exact on
this but close enough and we'll mix this in as well. We're going to repeat this
process until we've used up all of our ingredients. Be sure to scrape the bottom
insides of the bowl with a rubber spatula to make sure all of the
ingredients get incorporated. So I'll add in another third of the flour mixture
mix that and add in the remainder of the milk and eggs
and then end with remainder of the flower. Avoid overmixing your batter by
only mixing it until the ingredients are just incorporated. Next we're gonna
divide this among our three prepared pans. Divide the batter as evenly as you
can among the three pans and then get in
there and spread the batter so that it covers the bottom of the pan. Then we're
going to bake these in the 350 degree oven for 25 minutes until they're just
golden on top and cooked through. Once the cakes are done baking let them cool
in the pan for five minutes before inverting them onto a wire rack to cool
completely. You'll want to make sure that you cool your cakes completely before
trying to assemble and frost them. Now white cakes are great for fillings
raspberry jam and lemon curd are classics but you can feel free to
customize this to your own personal preferences. Today I'm just gonna frost
it with a simple white buttercream and I'll include the recipe for that in the
video description.
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