Moist Yellow Cake with a Soft Crumb

Moist Yellow Cake with a Soft Crumb is filed under Cakes and built around cake flour, cornstarch, and baking powder. Plan on 22 slices.

Count on 20 minutes of prep, 20 minutes of cooking, about 1 hour from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

• 3 ½ cups cake flour
• 2 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 2 ½ cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 egg yolks
• ⅜ teaspoons almond extract
• ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup sour cream
• ½ cup milk
• 1 Recipe for Double Chocolate American Buttercream

How the cooking goes

1. Warm the oven to 350°F (conventional, no fan) or 325°F (with the fan). Spray and line two 9-inch cake pans and keep it to one side.
2. In a large mixing bowl, sift together the cake flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and kosher salt and keep it to one side.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together milk and sour cream. Keep it to one side.
4. In the bowl of a electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
5. Beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by egg yolks, scraping down the sides and bottom of the bowl after every two eggs or so. Add the extracts with the last bit of eggs.
6. Switch the mixer to low, then add the flour mixture and sour cream alternately. You don’t wait until all the flour has incorporated before you add the next batch. You just keep adding with two hands. Pro-style. You stop the mixer to add the last of the sour cream, then scrape it all out with a flexible spatula. it helps to finish folding in the dry ingredients with a large flexible spatula.
7. Tip the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top using an offset spatula or spoon.
8. Bake in the preheated oven until a cake tester comes out with a few clinging crumbs. This will take about 20-30 minutes, depending on your oven.
9. Let the cake cool for 10 minutes in the cake pans, then loosen the edges with a paring knife and turn them out onto a rack. Allow to cool until it is no longer warm.
10. Layer and frost with your favorite buttercream!

After it comes off the heat

Let the pan settle before you slice, so the crumb stays together. Cover leftovers once they are cool.

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