This Nigella birthday cake recipe is my go-to when I need something that will stay moist, be pretty plain but still delicious and not crumble or fall apart when carved.
Vanilla Buttermilk Cake
Ingredients
- 250 gramme soft unsalted butter
- 400 gramme caster sugar
- 6 large eggs
- 400 ml buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
- 500 gramme plain flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
- One 38 x 25 x 8cm H (15″ x 10″ x 3″) large roasting pan*, greased & lined with baking parchment
Instructions
- Preheat a convection oven to 160 degrees C (180 C if using a non-convection oven)
- Mix the vanilla bean paste into the buttermilk
- Sift together all the dry ingredients
- Cream the butter and sugar together (ideally using a mixer — will take forever by hand!)
- Reduce the mixer speed and beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing for at least a minute in between additions
- Reduce the mixer speed and slowly add the dry ingredients and the buttermilk vanilla, alternating each
- Bake in the oven for 50 mins — you may need to cover it with tinfoil after the first 30 mins to keep the top from burning
- Remove from the oven, leave to cool and then ice with vanilla buttercream icing
* I like this roasting pan from Lakeland.
Posted by Meri @ 12:16 PM on October 12, 2012
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December 2nd, 2012 at 4:24 AM
[…] are using royal icing, or as a stand alone icing too. This is enough to ice the size of cake the vanilla buttermilk cake recipe is for — but generally, you always want twice as much icing sugar as butter and it […]
December 2nd, 2012 at 5:17 AM
[…] of all I made a vanilla buttermilk cake in a large roasting tin so it was about 38cm long, 24 cm wide and 6cm deep and a bunch of vanilla […]
December 2nd, 2012 at 6:46 AM
[…] first I made 6 large roasting pans worth of my favourite vanilla buttermilk cake — including one which I made gluten free by substituting in Dove’s gluten free plain […]
December 8th, 2012 at 12:38 PM
[…] approach was pretty similar to my previous cakes — I hauled out the trusty vanilla buttermilk cake again and made four rectangular cakes (in roasting pans once more) and then cut them […]
November 23rd, 2013 at 11:54 PM
So exciting to come across your site – I’ve been searching for a trusty vanilla butter cake recipe for ages and it worked a treat!