Air-fryer carrot cake
Samuel Goldsmith · bbcgoodfood.com · 2023 · 8
Against 260 carrot cake recipes
More fat than 86% of recipes and less carrot than 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 260 carrot cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 86% of recipes: 108% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%.
- Less carrot than 77% of recipes: 86% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 107%.
- No salt at all, where 70% of recipes use some (most of those 0.3 to 1.8% of the flour weight).
- Less egg than 77% of recipes: 57% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 68%.
Ingredients (13)
- 150ml vegetable oil plus extra for the tin≈ 138 g
- 175g self-raising flour175 g
- ½tsp ground cinnamon≈ 1.3 g
- nutmeg for gratingn/a
- 200g light brown soft sugar200 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
- 100g pecans roughly chopped100 g
- 150g carrots (around 2), grated150 g
- 50g raisins50 g
- 50g butter softened50 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 150g icing sugar sifted150 g
- 50g soft cheese50 g
flour 175 gbatter 969 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 260 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Carrot86% · 22nd percentile · median 107%
- Sugar114% · 54th percentile · median 107%
- Fat108% · 87th percentile · median 78%
- Egg57% · 22nd percentile · median 68%
- Spice0.7% · 26th percentile · median 1.9%
- Leavening5% · 56th percentile · median 4.8%
- Salt0% · 15th percentile · median 0.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 45 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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