THE BEST TWO-LAYER WHITE CAKE from The Spruce Eats

This recipe is from The Spruce Eats. I made half the recipe and used homemade cake flour (all-purpose flour and corn starch), weighing out each ingredient. It uses vegetable oil and egg whites, which you don't have to beat separately and fold into the batter. I added a heaping 1/4 c. of finely diced maraschino cherries, which is just over half of a drained 10 oz. jar. I added 1/4 t. pure almond extract and 2 T. of lightly toasted and ground sliced almonds. The recipe states the 9" round cakes takes 27-30 minutes but mine only took 22 minutes in my Breville oven but I think it was probably finished a few minutes sooner. I used my own white frosting recipe for this.

I grade this a C. It's dense and though I used 1/8 t. more salt than called for, it needed at least that much more. It wasn't worth the trouble and I'm very disappointed though it's edible.