Simple White Cake

This easy cake recipe requires just 7 ingredients and tastes like you spent hours making it, even though it's out of the oven in under an hour.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 30 mins
• Total Time: 40 mins
• Calories: 209 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
• 0.5 cup milk
• 0.5 cup unsalted butter
• 1.75 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon table salt

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Spread cake batter into the prepared pan.

Step 2

Gather all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square cake pan.

Step 3

Beat sugar and butter together in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer until lighter in color and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating briefly after each addition, 30 seconds total. Mix in vanilla, about 15 seconds.

Step 4

Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl. With mixer on low speed, add flour mixture to butter mixture in 3 batches, alternating with milk, beginning and ending with flour. Mix just until combined stopping to scrape down sides if needed, about 2 minutes.

Step 5

Bake cake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.

Step 6

Remove cake from the oven and let cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert cake onto wire rack; remove pan and let cake cool completely before frosting. Enjoy!