Vanilla Cake
Move over chocolate, calling all vanilla lovers! One taste of this easy to make, old fashioned cake and it will disappear super fast!
Equipment
- Bundt pan
- Food processor
- stand mixer
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 1¾ cups sugar
- 6 large eggs
- ½ cup whole milk
- 11 oz box vanilla wafer cookies, crushed into crumbles
- 1½ cups shredded sweetened coconut
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
- powdered sugar, for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Place vanilla wafers in the bowl of a food processor.
- Process until cookies resemble coarse sand.
- Liberally spray bundt pan with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
- Using the whisk attachment on a stand mixer cream together butter, vanilla extract and sugar on high speed, until light and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Whip for 3-4 minutes.
- Reduce speed to low and add eggs, one at a time, until well combined.
- Add milk, crushed vanilla wafer cookies, and shredded coconut. Blend on low speed until well combined.
- Stir in chopped nuts.
- Pour batter into well greased bundt pan.
- Bake for 60-70 minutes or until the center is done.
- Remove cake from oven and allow it to cool in the pan for an hour.
- When cake pulls away from the pan invert onto a platter.
- Dust with powdered sugar to serve.