Yellow Cakes

Yellow cake is similar to white cake and vanilla cake. Yellow cake and white cake are both vanilla flavoured, but the process of making them is different. In order to get a nice white colour for a white cake, those recipes only call for egg whites. Some may even require using clear vanilla flavouring in order to keep that white colour sparkling. Yellow cakes, on the other hand, call for the whole egg, including the yolk.

While most cake recipes call for a mixture of shortening and butter for their fat, some yellow cakes go the all butter route. Yellow cake gets that cool yellow hue from egg yolks and butter. So what is the flavour of yellow cake? While yellow cake and white cake are both vanilla flavoured, yellow cake tends to be much richer and moist because of the full eggs and butter combo.

Yellow cake is the classic American cake. The best birthday cakes are yellow cakes, oftentimes served with a chocolatey frosting on top. But yellow cake can be an everyday cake as well.