4,347 vanilla cake recipes

Homemade vanilla custard ice cream marbled with crunchy cinnamon streusel chunks. A French-style frozen dessert with the warming spice of coffee cake in every spoonful.

These Easter Bunny Face Cupcakes are so cute, and cakes are so moist, coated with vanilla frosting and coconut flakes, enjoy these pretty bunny face cupcakes!

This classic Bacardi Rum Cake bakes a yellow cake mix with vanilla pudding, dark rum, and pecans in a Bundt pan, then soaks it in a buttery rum-sugar glaze. Moist, boozy, and irresistible at any gathering.

Simple cake-like cookie bars swirled with strawberry jam and drizzled with a vanilla glaze. Be sure not to over-bake them so as not to dry them out.

A lighter take on Boston cream pie with a silky stovetop vanilla custard layered between cake rounds and dusted with powdered sugar instead of the usual chocolate ganache. Simple, elegant, and not overly sweet.

Friendship fruitcake made with a fermented fruit starter over 30 days, then baked into a rich Bundt cake loaded with peaches, pineapple, cherries, and nuts.

Irish cream frosting made with butter, powdered sugar, and Baileys-style liqueur beaten until light and fluffy. A boozy buttercream that pairs with chocolate, coffee, or vanilla cakes.

Hornet's Nest Cake mixes yellow cake mix with vanilla pudding, butterscotch chips, and chopped nuts for a dense, rich sheet cake that comes together in minutes.

Caramel banana nut loaves using cake mix and pudding mix for extra moisture, loaded with real mashed bananas and walnuts, topped with a homemade caramel frosting.

Moist wholemeal zucchini cake topped with sliced apple, crunchy walnuts, and warm allspice. Baked in a ring tin, this one's brilliant warm or cold with a cuppa.

A flexible basic vanilla cake template using cake flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, and your choice of mix-ins. The starting point for chocolate chip, fruit, or layer cakes.

Punchbowl Cake layers crumbled yellow cake, vanilla pudding, cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, bananas, coconut, and pecans in a stunning no-bake party dessert. A Southern crowd-pleaser that feeds a crowd.

Five-flavor pound cake glaze is a quick stovetop sugar syrup laced with coconut, butter, rum, lemon, and vanilla extracts. Poured warm over pound cake for an aromatic, moist finish.

A marbled vanilla cake layered with chocolate sauce and chopped walnuts, baked in a ring pan and served warm with a dusting of powdered sugar. Feeds 4 to 6 in under an hour.

Old-fashioned pound cake with shortening, six eggs, and no leavening. Vanilla and almond extract give this dense, tender tube cake its signature flavor.

Paula Deen's cream cheese frosting: cream cheese and butter beaten light and fluffy with confectioners' sugar, vanilla, and pecans. The rich, tangy classic for carrot cake and red velvet.