The PERFECT Yellow Cake — Moist, Golden & Smothered in Chocolate Frosting

🔗 Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach: https://eliasyoder.com If you asked a hundred folks my age what the cake of their childhood was, the one that came out for a birthday, I believe near all of them would tell you the same thing. A golden yellow cake with chocolate frosting. That was the birthday cake of a whole country, and it is still, to my mind, the finest one there is. A plain, honest, golden cake, soft and sweet and tender, under a thick swoop of dark chocolate frosting. Today I give you the whole of it, the cake and the frosting both, the way my family has always made it. Now, do not make a mystery of a yellow cake, for it is nothing in the world but a good vanilla cake. The gold comes from the butter and the egg yolks, from the whole richness of a good egg, and that richness is exactly what makes it the comfort it is. It is not a trick. The gold is already in your butter and your eggs, waiting to come out. INGREDIENTS (one layer cake) For the cake: 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup cornstarch (or use 2 1/2 cups cake flour instead of both) 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 1/4 cups sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla 3 eggs plus 2 egg yolks 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 cup buttermilk (or 1 cup milk soured with 1 1/2 tablespoons vinegar) For the chocolate frosting: 1 cup butter, softened 3/4 cup cocoa powder (bloomed in a little melted butter) 3 to 4 cups powdered sugar 1/4 cup milk or cream 1 teaspoon vanilla Pinch of salt Here is what you will learn: ✔ Why a yellow cake is just a rich vanilla cake (the gold is butter and yolks) ✔ Why you grease AND flour the pans (so the cake slips free clean) ✔ Why you cream the butter and sugar pale and fluffy (the air that lifts it) ✔ Why the extra egg yolks make it golden and tender ✔ The little splash of oil that keeps it moist a day or two later ✔ Why you must NOT overmix (and the alternating wet-and-dry method) ✔ The homemade buttermilk trick for a