Cupcake Cafe Vanilla Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 9 eggs, separated
• 3/4 lb unsalted butter
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 cups pastry flour (can substitute 2/3 all-purpose flour and 1/3 cake flour)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk

Recipe

• 1 butter or spray two 8 or 9 inch cake pans and line the bottom with parchment. preheat the oven to 350.
• 2 cream butter and sugar together; beat in yolks; add vanilla and set aside.
• 3 sift dry ingredients together.
• 4 beat egg whites to soft peaks.
• 5 mix dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately (in three increments starting with the dry ingredients) into the egg/butter mixture - do not overbeat.
• 6 fold in the egg whites.
• 7 fill pans about 2/3 full and bake for about 35-40 minutes until a tester comes out clean - cakes should feel slightly springy when pressed in the middle.