Ba’s Favorite Vanilla Cake

Ba, my maternal grandmother, was one of my most favorite people in the world and the inspiration behind so many of these recipes. She was wildly talented in the kitchen, whipping out recipes like no one else. I’m still craving to recreate some of them, but I get nowhere close. I don’t have her touch, her skilled hand. But when it came to cake, her approach was fairly simple. She always wanted an unadorned, uncomplicated vanilla cake, forks optional. I asked my aunt for the recipe, and this