what is the difference between yellow, white, and vanilla cake mix?
a general recipe for cake consists of flour, sweetening (sugar), a binding agent (eggs), a liquid (milk, water), fats (butter, shortening), and leavening (baking powder, baking soda). Aside from the already listed ingredients, some yellow cake recipes include vanilla and buttermilk, neither of which will make the cake yellow. If vanilla was included in a large enough quantity to, in fact, make the cake yellow, it would cease being a yellow cake and instead become a vanilla cake. The same may be said of buttermilk. White cake recipes have the exact same ingredients as previously listed, and may also include vanilla or buttermilk. Baking 911 states the only difference between white and yellow cakes is the use of egg whites (lack of egg yolks) in white cake. Egg yolks, which make yellow cake yellow, will contribute only to a cake’s texture, moisture, and richness, not to the cake’s overall flavor. If one argues egg yolks do contribute considerably to a flavor, the cake would be egg-yolk f
