For weddings, showers, and when only a white cake will do. Get dozens of recipes for light and fluffy white cake, with and without egg yolks. The people that are getting a dense cake must be doing something wrong and I have a feeling I know what it is. They are so afraid of over mixing the batter that they are under mixing it. I creamed the butter by itself, then added the sugar a cup at a time I doubled the recipe, then I added the eggs one at a time, mixing well between each, then I added the rest of the dry ingredients a cup at a time after mixing them together with a whisk, since I dont have a sifter, and then once I added the milk I mixed it on high for about 3 minutes. When I put the batter in the pan it was almost the same consistency as cool whip. I cooked it for 3. The finished product was like eating a sugar cookie flavored cloud. The only thing I changed about the recipe was to add an extra 14 cup milk. I iced it using a simple buttercream frosting dyed green for st patricks day and it was absolute perfection. My husband loved it as well. He ate his piece in about 3. I will eat it all lol. This cake was simple to make and is light and fluffy and tastes great. I did not change the recipe and used two 6 greased pans I will be able to tort and fill each cake to make a nice tall cake Thanks for the recipe First of all, I used this recipe to make cupcakes, which I would NOT recommend. I may try this recipe again in the future to make a cake, in which case I may change my rating. However, the cupcakes were for a friend for her daughters 3rd birthday so they had to be cute. The cupcake tops cooked into each other and were flat and ugly. I tasted one and thought it was on the dry side, and I only cooked them for 1. Ive made TONS of cupcakes before, both from scratch and from box mixes, and have never had cupcakes turn out this badly. I ended up starting all over again with a different white cake recipe, which turned out so much better both on looks and taste. Homemade Burger Recipe. Super simple I made it with a half recipe of Banana Butter Icing, also from this Web site, and served it to a very happy two year old birthday boy Thanks for the recipe THis came out PERFECTLY. I added more milk 34 cup also some lemon extract and lemon zest to taste. It was the first thing I made in my new kitchenaid mixer and I was very impressed with the results. I made little flower cupcakes in my flower pan and dipped each one in vanilla glaze I added lemon extract to the glaze as well. These stayed moist and delish for days As advertised, it is simple to make and easy to change into whatever is needed for the occasion. We started this one off without changing the recipe and it came out nice. Cant wait to start fiddling with it. UPDATE Its been a nearly a year and weve changed this up a few times for the better. If you want to stick as close to the recipe try this variation out Add 1 egg yolk, 1 teaspoon of butter flavoring and substitute half and half for the milk. If you have a kithenaid mixer, break out the whip instead of the batter blade. It produces a fluffier batter. Mix it until it puffs up a bit and bake it for the 3. We used a 9x. 9 glass pan. Now if you have gotten to the 4. It will set up well this way and you dont risk burning the edges of the cake. UPDATE This cake was gone in 1 setting when my in laws dropped in. Weve also mixed strawberry jam into the butteregg mixture and gotten great results and weve done a chocolate version by making the milk into a cocoa mixture. Next up to try will be spumoni.