White Layer Cake

Name: White Layer Cake
Yield: Serves 10 to 12 (Makes three 8-inch layers or two 9-inch layers)
Ingredients: 1 cup, whole milk, room temperature; 6 , large egg whites, room temperature; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 2 1/4 cups (9 ounces) bleached, cake flour; 1 3/4 cups (12 1/4 ounces), sugar; 4 teaspoons, baking powder; 1 teaspoon, table salt; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 12 pieces and softened but still cool

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2012

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

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Our tender white cake boasts a perfect, fine-grained texture.

SERVES10 to 12 (Makes three 8-inch layers or two 9-inch layers)

TIME1 hour, plus 2 hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

UPDATE: This recipe has been slightly reformulated to be more foolproof since its initial publication. The revision you see here was published in April 2022. We developed a recipe for White Layer Cake that bakes up moist, tender, and flavor...

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