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.
Prep Time
10 mins mins
Cook Time
30 mins mins
Total Time
40 mins
Servings:
12
Ingredients
1cup white sugar
0.5cup unsalted butter
2large eggs
2teaspoons vanilla extract
1.5cups all-purpose flour
1.75teaspoons baking powder
1/4teaspoon table salt
0.5cup milk
Instructions
1
Gather all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square cake pan.
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.
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.
Spread cake batter into the prepared pan.
Bake cake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
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!.
