How to Make White Cake

This recipe yields a fluffy, snow-white cake that’s light and soft but still sturdy enough to stack or cover with fondant.

Ingredients
6 Tablespoons unsalted butter softened to room temperature 85g
2/3 cup canola oil or vegetable oil 160ml
2 cup sugar 400g
1 Tablespoon clear vanilla extract
2 2/3 cup + 2 Tablespoon all-purpose flour 345g
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk room temperature preferred (235ml)
6 large egg whites room temperature
Double batch Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Instructions
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Preheat oven to 350F and prepare two 8-inch round cake pans by lining the bottoms with a round of parchment paper and generously greasing and flouring the sides. Be sure to shake out excess flour.
00:39 In a stand mixer (or using an electric mixer), beat butter on medium-low speed until creamy.
00:54 Add sugar and oil and beat until all ingredients are well-combined and creamy.
01:34 Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl and then stir in your vanilla extract.
02:13 In separate bowl, whisk together your flour, baking powder, and salt.
02:42 Measure out your milk.
03:00 With mixer on medium speed, gradually alternate between adding the flour mixture and the milk, starting and ending with the flour mixture. Stir until each one is almost completely combined before adding the next.
03:48 Pause occasionally to scrape down sides and bottom of bowl.
03:59 In separate bowl, combine your egg whites and, with a hand-mixer on high-speed, beat until stiff peaks form.
05:26 Using a spatula, gently fold your egg whites into your batter. Take care to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl so that ingredients are well-combined, and take care not to over-mix.
06:27 Evenly divide cake batter into prepared pans.
07:37 Bake on 350F for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake layer comes out clean or with few crumbs (should not be wet). For best results, rotate your cake pans halfway through baking to ensure even baking.
07:49 Cakes will be a light golden brown when done baking.
07:54 Remove cakes from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the inside rim of each pan and invert each onto a cooling rack.
08:17 Allow to cool completely before covering with buttercream frosting*. I used a double batch of my recipe (linked above) to thoroughly cover and decorate this cake.

Notes
If you don't like buttercream frosting, my favorite chocolate frosting or favorite cream cheese frosting would also taste great with this recipe!

[momofboys]

Made this cake for my son’s birthday- BEST white cake

[jessevinson]

My wife is gluten free but we watch all the videos. She loves baking and watching the baking videos and I get to eat all the things. LOL. Thanks for sharing your recipes.

[historicalfashionpassion]

I’m from England, and before YouTube I hadn’t heard of, ‘White cake, it’s an American phenomenon....but so cool...really,
Must try....

[chillymilly]

I've adapted this to my dairy allergy, swapped butter for more oil and milk for canned coconut milk, and it's devine. I've never had vanilla cake so moist and soft.

[unknown_xv]

I made this cake yesterday, omg! It was so soft, moist and delicious.Thank you.

[victorparraga]

My dad loved it so much he did not want to share 😂 thank you for the amazing recipe

[dmcharlebois]

I made this cake for my daughter’s 21st birthday! Amazing!! Such a wonderful flavor and texture. I filled it with the whoopie pie filling (my personal fav) from your other video and iced it with your double batch American buttercream recipe! Everyone said it was the best cake they ever had. Thank you for always bringing the best recipes with clear, concise directions. Thank you for great content! I wish I could share the photo. It was so pretty.

[maeveobyrne]

The crumb on this cake looks like perfection!

[ajajames]

You are AMAZING! Thank you soooo much for this recipe! My daughters birthday cake was THE BEST EVER!!!

[katec]

This recipe was easy thanks to your tips and techniques! My family LOVED this cake!!! White cake with white frosting (used your ermine frosting recipe) is my husband’s and mom’s absolute favorite combo. He likes buttercream, and she likes whipped cream frosting so ermine was the perfect middle ground. THANK YOU!

[dtbc]

Thank you for sharing this recipe! I made it yesterday and it came out very nice and moist! I layered with strawberry jam and buttercream. It was on the sweet side but it was so good that I didn’t mind! But I will try reducing sugar next time, hopefully the texture won’t be affected too much.

[bakedbean]

Definitely making this tonight. It looks so good. And people laughed when I bought a 25# bag of flour from sams club back in December. To keep it fresh put it in mason jars and use a vacuum sealer.

[gabbywambui]

I was doing a recipe test so i divided the ingredients into two.... The cake rose so well, soft and spongy, am happy with the results

[hibabadreddine]

Your cake recipes are perfect! I've tried your funfetti one, which I believe is very similar to this method, and it was somehow light, fluffy and moist all at the same time! Thankyou ❤

[_velvetlatte_.]

Omg, this recipe is amazing! I will definitely make this cake someday. Thank you for sharing this recipe!

[RebeccaLovesBSB]

Thank you so much for this recipe! I made cupcakes using this batter, and they came out soooo beautiful! I’ve never made a White Cake mix from scratch, because egg whites make me nervous, but I literally followed your recipe step by step, even making sure to read your blog to make sure I can even make them into cupcakes, and I am so excited with the way they turned out!!!

[andrewcrowe]

Thank you for showing the additional icing step as some videos don't. 👍

[Vovo-ergc]

Thank you a lot, I was disappointed of trying many many of white cake recipes for my home business but non of theme are worked, but yours is sooo yummy, white and fluffy. I loved it, really thank you❤️

[francesmorgan]

Thank you for this receipe i have been looking for this . I will b using this to bake for Christmas coconut cake.

[patyr]

Using only 300g of granulated sugar, and almond extract instead of vanilla, I made your cake today and it turned out white (as promised), moist and fluffy - delicious 😋.
But it´s still sweet for our liking (we don´t use sugar at our house). Next time I´ll bake it with even less sugar (or may add 1 extra tsp of salt).

Thank you for this great recipe. 👍🏾 