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Magnolia Monday: Vanilla Cake

Amy Faries • Mar 03, 2020
Soft, moist, and perfect to whip up in flash. This cake will be sure to have you coming back for seconds!
Magnolia Monday

Doing these Magnolia Monday posts has been such a fun experience so far. I have been baking things I have never made before and I am learning a ton of new recipes to add to my favorites list. The search has been rather intense looking for a perfect "from scratch" vanilla cake that doesn't taste artificial or have too much of a flour taste. Sounds crazy but this has seriously been a long process for me to find one that I truly adore. 

Batty Good

I used this Magnolia Bakery recipe to make a batty good cake in honor of Halloween. I also, filled the cake with my smooth and dreamy peanut butter filling (recipe to come soon) and topped it with my Swiss meringue buttercream. The combination of all these flavors was out of this world. I went back for seconds, and thirds, and.....well you get the point, it was AWESOME! I mean look at that texture, not dry but not raw the perfect crumb you want a cake to have.
Versatile

Now lets talk about cake. This was a great and easy cake to make, especially if you are a beginner baker. It does not take a long time to make at all, and the instructions are so incredibly simple. I really enjoyed whipping up a batch of this for Magnolia Monday. This may or may not be my new staple for vanilla cakes. It is also such a basic cake that you can really make it the base to anything you would like (funfetti, biscoff, lemon, etc) the possibilities are endless.
Don't forget to purchase your very own Magnolia Bakery book so you can follow along and make these recipes yourself!
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