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Vanilla Cake with Ginger Ale

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What is Love + Sugar's Vanilla Cake with Ginger Ale Bake-at-Home Recipe all about?

Our Bake-at-Home Vanilla Cake with Ginger Ale is tender, classic and just a little unexpected. A tender, beautifully vanilla-forward cake with an unexpected little twist: Ginger Ale.

This recipe creates a light, moist crumb with a delicate sweetness and subtle brightness from the ginger ale. It's familiar enough to feel classic, yet just different enough to make people wonder what makes it so good.

Made with carefully selected ingredients and thoughtfully balanced for a tender, flavorful cake, this is vanilla cake with a little more personality. Vanilla doesn't have to be ordinary.

Simple ingredients. A special little twist. A delicious cake made right in your own kitchen.

Here’s why our cakes are a cut above the rest:

  • Inside the Box: Cake base mix #1, Cake base mix #2, and Ginger Ale mini.
  • You'll add: 3 large eggs (room temperature), 8 ounces (1 cup) sour cream* (room temperature), and 3 teaspoons vanilla extract.
  • Equipment needed: 2 mixing bowls, (2) 8-inch cake pans, whisk, spatula, toothpick, measuring spoons and cups.‍
  • Detailed instuctions with illustrations: From my kitchen to yours.

Professional-quality ingredients.

Measured for you. Baked by you.

I source the same quality ingredients I use in my bakery and measure everything for you—so you can enjoy a Love + Sugar cake fresh from your own oven, whenever you're ready to bake it.

I precisely weigh the ingredients and package everything you need for the dry portion of the recipe. You simply add a few fresh ingredients from your refrigerator, mix, bake and enjoy.

Each cake recipe is thoughtfully prepared with bakery-quality ingredients, perfectly measured and ready for your kitchen.

How do I make my Vanilla Cake with Ginger Ale?

Making your cake should be a fun experience, and we’ve made it easy for you with illustrated step-by-step directions:

  1. Allow 3 large eggs and 8 oz (1 cup) sour cream to come to room temperature.
  2. Preheat your oven to 335°F.
  3. Prepare 2 (8-inch) cake pans*. See Tips and Tricks
  4. Pour the Cake Base Mix #1 and Cake Base Mix #2 in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together.
  5. In a separate bowl, whisk together the 3 eggs, 8 oz sour cream, Ginger Ale, and 3 tsp vanilla until smooth.
  6. Pour the wet ingredients into the large bowl with the dry ingredients. Mix until all the dry ingredients are incorporated. Batter can look lumpy.
  7. Mix on Medium speed with a stand mixer or hand mixer for 2 minutes.
  8. Split the cake batter between two 8-inch cake pans and bake for 35 to 42 minutes. The cake is done when the tops are domed and springy to the touch, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (no moist batter).
  9. Remove the pans from the oven and let cool completely on a wire rack
  10. Fill, frost, and decorate with your favorite buttercream.
Vanilla cake with Ginger Ale Step 4 Pour the Cake Base Mix #1 and Cake Base Mix #2 in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together. Vanilla cake with Ginger Ale. Step 5: In a separate bowl, whisk together the 3 eggs, 8 oz sour cream, Ginger Ale, and 3 tsp vanilla until smooth.
Step 4: Pour the Cake Base Mix #1 and Cake Base Mix #2 in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together.
Step 5: First, whisk the eggs with a fork until all the yolk and whites are mixed well.
Vanilla cake with Ginger Ale. Step 5: In a separate bowl, whisk together the 2 eggs, 8 oz heavy whipping cream, 3½ oz vegetable oil, and 3 tsp vanilla until smooth.Vanilla cake with Ginger Ale. Step 6 Mix until all the dry ingredients are incorporated. Batter can look lumpy.
Step 5: Then, whisk together the 3 eggs, 8 oz sour cream, Ginger Ale, and 3 tsp vanilla until smooth.
Step 6: Mix until all the dry ingredients are incorporated. Batter can look lumpy.
Vanilla cake with Ginger Ale. Step 7 Mix on Medium speed with a stand mixer or hand mixer for 2 minutes.Vanilla cake with Ginger Ale. Step 9 Remove the pans from the oven and let cool completely on a wire rack.
Step 7: Mix on Medium speed with a stand mixer or hand mixer for 2 minutes.
Step 9: Remove the pans from the oven and let cool completely on a wire rack.
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