The Very Best Vanilla Layer Cake Recipe

This is the best vanilla layer cake; you’ll ever bake. Enough said. 

I’m going to be completely honest with you; cakes are not my thing. Sure I’ve made them from time to time, and I pretty much consider they are rock stars, like this lemon cake and this vegan chocolate cake and this vanilla cake with chocolate ganache. But if you look closely at them they only have one layer. Yes, I’m a baker, and I used to be incredibly scared of attempting layer cakes.

So I stuck with cupcakes, and cookies and the occasional single layer cake and called it a day. But you know what? Life is meant to test your limits, to not stay in your comfort (cupcake) zone. Life is meant to learn new things, embrace new experiences and learn from your failures. So instead of stand with the “I don’t know how to make a cake” mindset I decided to push myself to learn something new, and fail along the way and create something that made me proud. The result of countless of pounds of flour lost, and smashed cakes, and dry cakes, and overbaked and underbaked cakes and cakes that were just bad, is this. The Very Best Vanilla Layer Cake you’ll ever have.

And that’s not because I did it, and I’m proud (I am), Its’ because it’s the single best layer cake I’ve ever had. Better than the ones they serve at bakeries, better than the ones my professional friends make (sorry friends I still love you!!) and better than any other thing I’ve ever tried.

This vanilla layer cake is not only mouthwatering delicious but’s also all the things a good layer cake should be. It’s moist without being too wet. It holds great the shape. It doesn’t crumb a lot, which in my opinion is the most important thing because frosting a layer cake is not easy friends, not easy at all for a newbie like me. So this cake is just basically #LayerCakeGoals (oh gosh, using an invented hashtag makes me lame?)

But seriously this vanilla layer cake.

O M G this cake.

If you are only going to bake one cake in your entire life, you need to bake this one.

And if you are scared of failure and scared of bad layer cakes, then don’t be and bake this.

Because from heart to heart, this is fail proof

and delicious

Delicious.

I frosted it with the ultimate vanilla frosting