- prep: 30 min
- cook: 30 min
- total: 1 hr
Summary
A light, moist and delicious frosted vanilla cake with sprinkles - my favorite and perfect for a birthday or any celebration!
Ingredients
- Vanilla Cake
- 3 cups cake flour, sifted (345 g)
- 2 cups granulated sugar (400 g)
- 4 teaspoons baking powder (17 g)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (2.5 g)
- 5 large egg whites, at room temperature (150 g)
- 1 whole egg, at room temperature
- 1 cup whole milk or full fat buttermilk at room temperature (237 ml)
- 2-1/4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract (12 ml)
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, cold and cut into 24 even pieces (170 g)
- Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
- 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 3 - 3 1/2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract
- Seeds scraped from one vanilla bean (or add 1 more teaspoon of pure vanilla extract)
- 3-4 tablespoons of heavy cream
- pinch of salt
- Decorations
- Sprinkles (I used about 1 cup of rainbow jimmies)
Instructions
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Nutrition
Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 6
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 1274 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 42 g 64.73%
- Saturated Fat: 20 g 98.4%
- Trans Fat: 1 g %
- Cholesterol: 98 mg 32.68%
- Sodium: 808 mg 33.67%
- Calcium: 140 mg 14.04%
- Potassium: 100 mg 2.87%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 5 mg 28.34%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 220 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 1 g 4.64%
- Sugar: 154 g
- Protein: 7 g
- Alcohol: 1 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 1 g
- Vitamin A 21.43%
- Vitamin C 0.08%
- Vitamin D 1.18%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat8
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs11
- Exchange - Starch4
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total4 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total0 oz-eq