The Best Vanilla Cake

I do want to have "The Best" in my repertoire - the best chocolate cake, the best chocolate chip cookie, the best vanilla cake... you know, get the basics right with some foolproof recipes (and 2 kinds at that - With and without egg, because quite some of my immediate family do not eat egg). And with cakes, I am looking for cakes that use oil versus those that have butter. While there is no match for the flavor and texture butter brings in, it means that that you can't put it together just whenever you would like to what with the time required to soften it etc.

So coming to the cake, this is the best vanilla cake with eggs and with oil that I have baked/ had yet. I have been on the search for one for a while now. Among homemade cakes, I have a very special corner for Vanilla cakes a favor them even more than the chocolate ones. Some years back when Nestle was running small cafes in Delhi, there was a chocolate chip muffin they used to retail which I absolutely loved, so much so I even traced its origin to the Standard Coffee shop in Connaught Place. This cake, was very close to that, here it is.

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
2. In a bowl, whisk together all purpose flour, corn flour, salt, baking powder till evenly mixed.
3. WIn another bowl, whisk the eggs for 15 seconds with an electric mixer. Add the sugar and whisk for 30 seconds more. Add the vanilla and oil, whisk a little more.
4. Add half the flour mix to the wet mix and blend it slowly, add half the buttermilk followed by rest of the flour and rest of the buttermilk. Scrape down the sides and blend it in.
5. Bake for 35 minutes, browning the crust a little.

Ingredients
1 cup All purpose flour (maida)
1/4 cup Cornflour
1/2 tsp Salt
2 tsp Baking powder
3/4 cup powdered Sugar
1/2 cup vegetable Oil
2 Eggs
1.5 tsp Vanilla extract
1/2 cup buttermilk (If you dont have this on hand - Just add 1 tsp vinegar to 1/2 cup milk and allow to stand it for 5 minutes. Shake and use it.)